The big story this week was the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on the CIA’s torture program during the Bush administration. The report presented damning evidence of horrific techniques that CIA agents used against terrorist captives. But CIA director John Brennan publicly defended the anniesprinkle.org mail order echeck levitra program on Thursday. Others have accused the Senate committee staff of misleading the public. Leaving aside the question of whether the report is truthful, was the CIA justified in using these interrogation techniques?

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Congress this week faced a deadline for keeping the federal government operating, at least over the propecia atmanmanagementgroup.com holidays. It passed an omnibus continuing resolution, or “cromnibus,” late on Thursday. But the process was messy, with many members’ pet provisions finding their way into the bill and view it hardliners on both sides fighting to keep the bill from passing. How did Congress’s most basic responsibility become such an ordeal, and who is most at fault?

Finally, more developments in the saga of the rape case at the University of Virginia. After Rolling Stone pulled its support for the thetrafficvault.com zithromax original article it published on the case, the Washington Post did its own investigation of the incident. The Post interviewed friends of the alleged victim and checked out some of her claims. Their reporting revealed that her account is even more doubtful than previously thought. Is this case an anomaly, or are many claims of sexual assault are exaggerated?

Gregory Clay of GDClay.com, Al Mattei of TopoftheCircle.com, and Nick Morpus of Liberty Minds discuss these issues and more.