{"id":10535,"date":"2014-03-13T06:05:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T13:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10535"},"modified":"2014-03-13T18:40:39","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T01:40:39","slug":"kpfk-bradcast-ciaus-senate-torture-cover-up-and-spying-scandal-a-constitutional-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10535","title":{"rendered":"KPFK ‘BradCast’: CIA\/U.S. Senate Torture Cover- Up and Spying Scandal – A ‘Constitutional Crisis’"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you didn’t happen to see what happened Tuesday on the U.S. Senate floor [full video\/transcript here<\/em><\/a>] when Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) unleashed a stunning 38-minute speech excoriating the CIA for spying on U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staffers’ work<\/a> on a 6,300-page report detailing torture by the Bush-era CIA, you’ll want to listen to this week’s BradCast<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Even if you did<\/i> see what happened on Tuesday, you should tune in to this week’s show, as I suspect you’ll get details on the various plots, cover-ups and related schemes that you haven’t yet heard. I was joined to discuss the mess with our old friend Marcy Wheeler, the encyclopedic national security expert from Emptywheel.net<\/a> and now Senior Policy Adviser at The Intercept<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She’s been tracking this since at least 2009, and we went through the remarkable timeline beginning with Bush’s “Enhanced Interrogation”<\/strike> torture program just after 9\/11, through the CIA’s attempted cover-up, shredding of videotapes and removal of documents from the Senate staffer’s computers, on up to yesterday’s explosive comments from DiFi and the implausible denials from CIA Chief John Brennan (and the calls for criminal charges by both<\/em> parties) which Wheeler and others<\/a> are now describing as a bona fide<\/i> “Constitutional Crisis”.<\/p>\n

This is an extraordinary story. It’s Spy v. Overseer; CIA v. U.S. Senate; Executive Branch v. Legislative Branch; DiFi v. Brennan; Hypocrisy v. Reality; Torture & Cover-ups v. Rule of Law & Constitution. And it all could, as Mother Jones’<\/i> David Corn argues<\/a>, very well “undermine the basis for secret government” itself.<\/p>\n

In the second part of the show, we covered several much more encouraging news items from the past several days, as well as the latest Green News Report<\/i><\/a>. Buckle up and enjoy!<\/p>\n

Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below…<\/i>
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