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Published on Mar 28, 2014
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- As the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence feuds with the CIA
over the declassification of its 6,000-page report on the agency's
secret detention and interrogation programs, we host a debate between
former CIA acting general counsel John Rizzo and human rights attorney
Scott Horton. This comes as the United Nations Human Rights Committee
has criticized the Obama administration for closing its investigations
into the CIA's actions after September 11. A U.N. report issued Thursday
stated, "The Committee notes with concern that all reported
investigations into enforced disappearances, torture and other cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment that had been committed in the context of
the CIA secret rendition, interrogation and detention programmes were
closed in 2012 leading only to a meager number of criminal charges
brought against low-level operatives." Rizzo served as acting general
counsel during much of the George W. Bush administration and was a key
legal architect of the U.S. interrogation and detention program after
the Sept. 11 attacks. He recently published a book titled, "Company Man:
Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA." Attorney Scott
Horton is contributing editor at Harper's Magazine and author of the
forthcoming book, "The Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and
America's Stealth Foreign Policy."Watch and share the full debate uninterrupted:
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/3/28...
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