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Mitch PerryOctober 28, 2015

It started overnight with an editorial in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, was followed up by the Democratic National Committee, former RPOF Chair Al Cardenas, and now Orlando-area Democratic U.S. Rep. and 2016 Senate hopeful Alan Grayson is calling on Marco Rubio to step down from his U.S. Senate seat. “If Senator Rubio does not want […]

Martin DyckmanDecember 11, 2014

It did not come as news this week that the CIA had tortured terrorism suspects. Americans already knew that. So did our enemies. The U.S. Senate select committee’s controversial report accomplished much more, however, than to simply provide the brutal, degrading, horrifying details. Equally disturbing, if not more so, was the conclusion that agency officials […]

Mitch PerryDecember 10, 2014

The CIA and its supporters are in full pushback mode today, a day after the publication of a summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation into the use of torture (or as the CIA euphemistically refers to it as, “enhanced interrogation tactics”). Like so many other things that come out of Washington, the political establishment […]

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Alan Grayson latest to call for Marco Rubio’s Senate resignation

Martin Dyckman: Listen to Sen. John McCain, who speaks with great authority on torture

Mitch Perry Report for 12.10.14 – The politics of torture