‘Left, Right & Center’: Is Torture a Partisan Issue?
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has been reasserting himself, for good or ill, in the public sphere this week. President Obama was ready with his own take on torture, aka "extreme interrogation" methods. Is this a media-enabled setup or a legitimate face-off between executive powers past and present?Former Vice President Dick Cheney has been reasserting himself, for good or ill, in the public sphere this week. President Obama was ready with his own take on torture, aka “extreme interrogation” methods. Is this a media-enabled setup or a legitimate face-off between executive powers past and present? Meanwhile, California founders in the budget department, and the “Left, Right & Center” mainstays (minus Arianna Huffington) have it out on all that and more. KCRW:
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