The 'torture memos'

James Jay Carafano and David Kaye debate what the latest memos released by President Obama reveal about the Bush administration's interrogation practices and what legal action, if any, should be taken against former administration officials.

Investigating the Bush administration

May 1, 2009

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Investigating the Bush administration

Today's topic: How should any official investigation of the Bush administration's interrogation practices proceed? Should it go after the actual interrogators, or the lawyers and top administration officials who provided the legal cover, or both? Or should the investigation just be a fact-finding one?

Is Cheney right about the memos?

2:33 PM PDT, April 30, 2009

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Is Cheney right about the memos?

Today's topic: Is Dick Cheney right that the Obama administration should release all the memos related to the interrogation of high-value targets and the resulting actionable intelligence? Should the release extend beyond memos relating to information acquired through rough interrogations and include all official memos considering or urging the use of such tactics? And even if such interrogations did yield valuable information, would it justify using practices that most people would call torture?

The Bush memos: What do they reveal?

3:52 PM PDT, April 29, 2009

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The Bush memos: What do they reveal?

Today's topic: What do the memos that have been released so far show about the Bush administration's interrogation practices?

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