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Jeremy Scahill: GOP Remarks at Guantánamo Hearing Part of Bid to Revive Torture as U.S. Policy

2,085 views · Published 25 July 2013 · 2:45 · Indexed 14 November 2026

Channel: Democracy Now! · 2013 · News & Politics

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Watch the full interview with reporter Jeremy Scahill on Democracy Now! at http://bit.ly/16e52tR. On Wednesday, a U.S. Senate committee addressed the prospect of closing Guantánamo Bay for the first time since 2009, when Obama made his first and failed concerted push to shutter the prison. Jeremy Scahill, the national security reporter for The Nation, responds to testimony at that hearing by Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy, which opposes closing the Guantánamo. Gaffney was asked about the Obama administration's drone program by Republican Senator Ted Cruz. "The fact is that Obama continued many of the worst policies on a counterterrorism level that were built up under the Bush and Cheney administration and these Republicans, they would love to be doing exactly what Obama was doing, they're just attacking him because he's Obama," Scahill says. "At the end of the day, they're being motivated more by their own partisan agenda. And it's an attempt to argue, and it's an insidious argument, that torture is actually a policy that the United States should fully embrace once again." 

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