“A Fox news pundit has triggered a torrent of online criticism for claiming that the Senate report exposing torture techniques used by US intelligence services has been published because President Barack Obama wants to show that Americans “are not awesome”.
Andrea Tantaros, a conservative commentator for Rupert Murdoch’s Republican-leaning news outlet, claimed there was no need for discussion on the interrogation methods used by the CIA to extract information from terror suspects, because the subject had been already addressed in the past.
“The United States of America is awesome, we are awesome. We’ve closed the book on it [torture], and we’ve stopped doing it,” she told the audience of Fox’s show Outnumbered.””* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola (TYT University), Wes Clark Jr and Jimmy Dore (The Jimmy Dore Show) break it down.
*Read more here:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/cia-torture-report-america-awesome-not-obama-says-fox-news-pundit-andrea-tantaros-1478974
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