At today's Senate torture hearnings, the idea that torture is the fastest way to get information was pretty much debunked. Rachel is joined by terrorism expert Malcolm Nance.
Heather: John Ensign gets snitty with Chris Matthews and accuses him of being inflammatory for bringing up what's in the Senate Armed Services Committee's report on the Bush administration's torture of detainees. Instead of addressing what's in the report he attacks Matthews and claims that it is a "Democrat report".
As Think Progress noted that "Democrat report" had the full support of the committee:
Ensign is right that there are often committee reports produced and released by only the minority or the majority. This report, however, was not one of them. The first page of the detainee report makes it clear that it is a document from the "Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate." ThinkProgress spoke with a committee spokesman who confirmed that the full, unanimous committee released the report. When talking with Levin today, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell noted that Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham also endorsed the report.
Heather: I'd pay for tickets to see Hannity and Scarborough both waterboarded at the same time since neither of these tough guys seem to think there's a thing wrong with it. Christopher Hitchens put himself through it. If they're going to cheerlead for it day in and day out I want to know when their turn is.