The Constitution and the CIA interrogation report
We the People
National Constitution Center
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2014
⏱️ 36 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Jeffrey Rosen, President and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to the latest of our We the People constitutional podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America, chartered by Congress to disseminate information |
| 0:15.0 | about the U.S. Constitution on a nonpartisan basis. |
| 0:19.1 | And this has been an exciting week at the National Constitution Center on Bill of Rights Day, December 15th. |
| 0:23.9 | We opened our new exhibit with one of the 12 original surviving copies of the Bill of Rights, |
| 0:29.2 | and we just found out that our We the People Podcast series has been ranked as the second most popular |
| 0:35.4 | news podcast on the popular pod beam service which ranks up to 600,000 |
| 0:40.7 | podcasts and we are overall the ninth most popular |
| 0:43.7 | podcast on Podbeam in 2014. |
| 0:46.3 | That is thanks to the loyal listening of our wonderful |
| 0:51.3 | listeners. |
| 0:52.1 | That's all of you, and we're so grateful to you for |
| 0:55.1 | tuning in for these constitutional discussions. This week we discuss one of the |
| 0:59.8 | most hotly contested questions of the year namely is the U.S. government's use of so-called |
| 1:07.1 | enhanced interrogation techniques illegal under the Constitution or domestic or international law. |
| 1:14.0 | Last week, the Senate Intelligence Committee released the 525-page executive summary |
| 1:19.7 | of a classified report detailing the CIA's detainment and interrogation of terror suspects in the years after 9-11. |
| 1:30.0 | The findings reveal a program of far greater scope that had been previously reported and |
| 1:35.4 | notes internal disagreement at the CIA about the use of those tactics with some officers questioning |
| 1:40.8 | the usefulness of the intelligence and the legality of the practices and others defending the practices. |
| 1:47.0 | The remains of vigorous public debate over whether or not the CIA engaged in so-called torture, and if it did, whether the alleged conduct violates |
| 1:55.6 | the Constitution or domestic or international law. |
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