We Tortured Some Folks
The Intercept Briefing
The Intercept
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2019
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Monday marked the five year anniversary of the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s executive summary on the CIA’s torture program. The former top Senate Intelligence Committee investigator, Daniel Jones and his team combed through 6.3 million pages of CIA records. Jones discusses the years-long battle with the Bush and Obama administrations to make public the findings of this still-classified 7,000 page report. In this bonus episode, Jones expands on the torture report findings.
Jones is the subject of the new feature film, The Report, starring Adam Driver and Annette Bening, and the host of its companion podcast, The Report Podcast, with Kelly McEvers, where they unpack the story of the CIA’s torture program, the Senate’s investigation, and ensuing cover-up.
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| 0:30.0 | I'm Jeremy Skahill coming to you from the offices of the Intercept in New York City, |
| 0:37.4 | and this is a special bonus episode of Intercepted. |
| 0:40.8 | What they're doing is a very bad thing for our country. |
| 0:43.6 | It's of no merit, and the Republican Party has never been more unified ever. |
| 0:48.7 | They've never been as unified as they are right now. |
| 0:52.0 | I've never seen anything like it. |
| 0:54.2 | To say that the presidency of Donald Trump operates from a scandal filled swamp is a dramatic |
| 0:59.7 | understatement. |
| 1:01.4 | There's the impeachment drama unfolding, replete with abundant evidence that Trump sought |
| 1:05.9 | to use the office of the presidency to undermine a political opponent, namely Joe Biden. |
| 1:12.0 | There are many questions surrounding financial impropriety, the way the Trump businesses |
| 1:17.4 | have functioned during his time in office, and the looming questions about his tax returns |
| 1:23.0 | and financial dealings. |
| 1:25.0 | His campaign manager is in prison, his former lawyer is in prison, and his current lawyer, |
| 1:31.0 | Rudy Giuliani, seems intent on assisting prosecutors in nailing him for all sorts of dirty |
| 1:37.1 | business. |
| 1:38.3 | But aside from these scandals, Trump is also engaged in the more common form of presidential |
| 1:44.4 | crimes. |
| 1:45.8 | These are the actions of presidents throughout history that go completely unpunished and |
| 1:51.0 | are actually often celebrated. |
| 1:53.6 | I'm talking about war crimes and crimes of economic terror. |
| 1:58.2 | Just listen to how House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently defended her decision not to impeach |
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