Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union with Candy Crowley,” Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said America has “to stop the self-loathing” while commenting on the Senate Democrats’ report on the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques. King said, “What ISIS does is
Sunday on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) called for a criminal investigation into the Senate Democrats’ CIA torture’ report. Ellison said, “We need a criminal investigation, who did what where, when?” Follow Pam Key on
Joel Pollak’s description of the Berkeley mob that stopped a speech by PayPal and Facebook billionaire Peter Thiel on Wednesday unleashed flashbacks. Fourteen years ago at the University of California’s flagship campus, a similar mob, including many looking like they
Sunday on “This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” in discussing the Senate passing a $1.1 trillion spending bill late Saturday night, conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham pointed to bipartisan agreement as one of the flaws of the political system.
On “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace,” Jose Rodriguez, the former director of the National Clandestine Service of the CIA said members of Congress where briefed dozens of times on the enhanced interrogation techniques including Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Sen.
Hundreds of new cases involving allegations of torture of Iraqi citizens, including men, women and children, by British soldiers are set to be brought before the International Criminal Courts in The Hague. A new dossier, containing claims of torture and
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” former Vice President Dick Cheney explained the difference between water boarding and torture. “Torture is an American citizen on a cell phone making a last call to his four young daughters shortly before he
The United States Senate’s release of a controversial CIA torture report — widely seen as being a politically-motivated attack — has been met with both the ire and praise of many in the international community. Most recently, the United Nations
A parliamentary committee investigating possible British links to torture will request access to blacked out parts of a US Senate report on CIA treatment of Al-Qaeda suspects, its chairman said Sunday. The news comes amid growing questions in Britain about
Spain’s proposed new public security law, which introduces hefty fines for unauthorised protests and allows for the summary expulsion of migrants that try to enter the country illegally, has sparked fierce opposition from human rights activists. The lower house of
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress cleared a $1.1 trillion spending bill for President Barack Obama’s signature late Saturday night after a day of Senate intrigue capped by a failed, largely symbolic Republican challenge to the administration’s new immigration policy. The vote
In her “Opening Statement” segment on her Saturday Fox News Channel broadcast, “Justice w/Judge Jeanine” host Jeanine Pirro took aim at Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) for the finding of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on CIA interrogation tactics. Pirro argued
The cold opening of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” this weekend featured Taran Killam’s Charlie Rose interviewing the so-called torture psychologists revealed in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s CIA torture report, played by Bobby Moynihan and Kyle Mooney. But as it turned
Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s final act as the most powerful person in the U.S. Senate chamber is one where he has relented to the Tea Party. Reid’s Senate Democrats lost nine seats in the midterm elections–more than even
On this weekend’s broadcast of “The McLaughlin Group,” conservative commentator Pat Buchanan railed against Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) for the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA interrogation tactics. Buchanan called it a vindictive attack with the intention
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) tends to talk a good game when it comes to taking on Barack Obama, especially when it comes to immigration. But now with the battle lines being drawn on the Republican side between conservatives and the
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is keeping senators in Washington for a rare Saturday session–and risking a government shutdown–after he went to extraordinary lengths to block Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) from forcing a vote to
In the weekly GOP address, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) thanked voters for his election and called the incoming Republican majority in the U.S. Senate an opportunity for a “fresh start.” Transcript as follow: Hi, I’m Senator Tim Scott from the
Underneath everything else going on as regards the current firestorm on Capitol Hill over a so called bi-partisan $1.1 trillion spending bill, distrust seems to be the order of the day and it’s hard to argue there isn’t good reason
On Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-NV) communications director Adam Jentleson tweeted that Reid filed cloture on the nomination of Obama’s gun control-supporting Surgeon General nominee Vivek Murthy. Jentleson indicated a “confirmation vote will be early next week.” Last week, Breitbart
(Reuters) – The Senate passed a five-day extension of federal funding on Saturday, staving off a government shutdown and buying lawmakers more time to resolve a fight over a longer, $1.1 trillion spending bill led by Tea Party firebrand Ted
A former security minister has said that British spies may have been aware of torture carried out by CIA agents. Lord West of Spithead, who served in Gordon Brown’s Labour government, said there may have been the “odd case” where
A last-second vote helped pass the new federal budget bill through the House of Representatives late Thursday evening, but the Senate still has to give its approval before it can land on President Obama’s desk. With the clock ticking down,
The U.S. military no longer has custody of any detainees in Afghanistan and has shut down operations at the Bagram prison, a Pentagon spokesman confirmed. Earlier this week, U.S. officials quietly transferred the custody of the last three prisoners to
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) attempted to push the US Senate to vote on whether it considers President Obama’s executive action on immigration to be constitutional in a speech on the Senate floor on government funding on Friday. Cruz cited “Saturday
