By
Jenna McLaughlin
On
Tuesday morning, the Senate intelligence committee released an executive summary of its five-year investigation
into the CIA's interrogation and detention program. (Read the executive summary
here.)
Among
the report's most striking revelations? CIA interrogators were often untrained
and in some instances made up torturous techniques as they went along. [READ MORE]
The
findings of the Senate investigation into the CIA's interrogation and detention
program were shocking. The 500-page summary was chock-full of the CIA's lies, awful abuses, Dick Cheney appearances, obstruction, and embarrassing lack of training.
MoJo's
Mark Follman identified and analyzed 21 deadly school
shootings in the two years since the Newtown, Connecticut, massacre.
The
cromnibus, a huge piece of must-pass spending legislation, passed on Thursday.
And while the government didn't shut down, the cromnibus dragged some unsettling
provisions with it: oodles of money for the Pentagon (again), a Citigroup-drafted provision allowing for riskier
trades, and a Big Coal giveaway.
And
Texas still won't give up the fight to execute Scott
Panetti—a man so mentally ill he subpoenaed Jesus while wearing a cowboy suit in
a courtroom. [READ MORE]
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READ
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