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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The War on Torture

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Washington, News, Politics, President, Wickenden, Wnyc, Barack, Obama, Lizza

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2015

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Connie Bruck and Jane Mayer talk with Dorothy Wickenden about the Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report, and what it has revealed about U.S. policies, both domestic and foreign.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

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It's Friday, June 19th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

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On Tuesday, Senators John McCain and Diane Feinstein spoke out for an amendment they've been advocating that bans the use of torture in government interrogations.

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Here's Feinstein.

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We should all agree that there can be no turning back to the error of torture.

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Interrogation techniques that would together constitute torture do not work.

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They corrode our moral standing, and ultimately they undermine any counterterrorism policies they are intended to support.

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The amendment to the defense authorization bill passed the Senate the next day.

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In the current issue of the magazine, Connie Bruck wrote about Senator Feinstein's investigation into the torture

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of detainees during the war on terror. She and Jane Mayer are joining me to discuss why this

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