Fmr. CIA Agent Bob Baer: "Torture Doesn't Work"


	Fmr. CIA Agent Bob Baer: "Torture Doesn't Work"

Spiritualmonkey

5-1-2009 2:18 PM

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torture, bob-baer, cia, terrorism, bill-maher

Spiritualmonkey says:

NOTE: The video I clipped has been taken down, but Baer's entire interview is available for free on the Real Time Podcast.

ALSO: Working vid (for now)

Torture has not saved American lives.

Torture does generate useful information.

And it is the tool of the kind of regimes we've been taught to hold in contempt.

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5-4-2009 6:14 AM

ratcatcher2

Video sabotaged?

5-5-2009 2:02 PM

Spiritualmonkey

Not so much sabotaged as HBO getting the hosts to take down their copyrighted material. The full interview is still available for free on the podcast.

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