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Senate Set to Confirm New FBI Head Who Ok'd Waterboarding, Defends Mass Spying, Indefinite Detention

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Channel: Democracy Now! · 2013 · News & Politics

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http://www.democracynow.org - At his confirmation hearing to head the FBI, former Bush administration Deputy Attorney General  James Comey refused to criticize the broad, ongoing collection of the phone records of Americans and defended the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens deemed to be enemy combatants. Comey also explained why he signed off on a memo authorizing waterboarding while serving under Attorney General John Ashcroft. We get reaction from former special FBI agent Coleen Rowley, who served with the Bureau from 1981 to 2004. The New York Times just published her op-ed titled, "Questions for the FBI Nominee." In 2002, Time Magazine named her and two other female whistleblowers  as Time's "Person of the Year," for warning about the FBI's failure to help prevent the 9/11 attacks. 

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