Jeremy Scahill: Liberal Support Allowed Obama to Expand Bush’s Interrogation Program

Jeremy Scahill: Liberal Support Allowed Obama to Expand Bush’s Interrogation Program

Jeremy Scahill: Liberal Support Allowed Obama to Expand Bush’s Interrogation Program

Contrary to popular belief, the president has only increased the scope of our global program to detain and torture people.

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Far from ending Bush-era policies of extraordinary rendition and torture that outraged liberals, Democratic President Obama has developed them further, Nation correspondent Jeremy Scahill said during the second part of a Democracy Now! interview about his new book, Dirty Wars.

"There are ways in which Obama pushed the Cheney agenda far beyond what a President McCain or a President Romney would have been able to do, because he had his base of supporters," Scahill said.

Alec Luhn

Read an excerpt from Scahill’s new book at TheNation.com.

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