The Diane Rehm Show
Senate Intelligence Committee member, Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, defends the panel's planned release of a report on the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, during a TV news show interview on Capitol Hill in Washington.
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a summary of its scathing report Dec. 9 on CIA interrogation practices post- 9/11. The report depicts an agency that used brutal and ineffective methods to elicit information from terror detainees, and misled Congress and the White House about its activities. Reaction has been explosive, falling mostly along party lines. CIA officials say their program yielded valuable counter-terrorism intel and helped weaken Al-Qaeda, contrary to the report’s central findings. And many Republican lawmakers are condemning the report’s release, saying it endangers the lives of Americans at home and abroad. We look at the debate over what’s come to be known as the “torture report.”
The latest on the Panama Papers. Greece deports a second round of migrants to Turkey. And the Pope signals a shift in tone on family life in the Roman Catholic Church. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top international news stories.
After big upsets in Wisconsin, presidential candidates look to the New York primary. President Obama returns to Chicago to stump for his Supreme Court nominee. And Bernie Sanders accepts an invitation from the Vatican. A panel of journalists joins Diane for analysis of the week's top national news stories.
This spring a handful of school districts in California will begin testing students on resilience and self-control, among other so-called social emotional skills. Debate over new federal standards on school quality and testing for non-academic skills.
Two major drug companies scrap a multibillion-dollar merger after the Treasury Department announces new federal tax rules. New efforts to discourage U.S. companies from moving their headquarters overseas for lower tax rates.
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