President Obama Lists What’s Not Working in Washington, The president also addressed torture

Obama Lists What’s Not Working in Washington, the World, The president also addressed post-9/11 America, saying "we tortured some folks."
http://www.nationaljournal.com/white-house/obama-bashes-congress-over-gridlock-20140801

In a last-minute press conference at the White House Friday, President Obama hit congressional Republicans for not passing an emergency border funding bill and for, as he sees it, keeping Congress unproductive.

"We all agree that there's a problem that needs to be solved in a portion of our southern border, and we even agree on most of the solutions," Obama said. "Instead of working together...House Republicans, as we speak, are trying to pass the most extreme and unworkable versions of a bill that they already know is going nowhere."

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On the border, Obama said, "I'm going to have to act alone."

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Obama also addressed post-9/11 America, in talking about the CIA. "We tortured some folks," he said. "We did some things that were contrary to our values. I understand why it happened. I think it's important when we look back to recall how afraid people were after the Twin Towers fell, and the Pentagon had been hit, and a plane in Pennsylvania had fallen and people did not know whether more attacks were imminent and there was enormous pressure on our law enforcement and our national security teams to try to deal with this."


good tweets to cruz's speechwriter
from Oliver Willis, research fellow at Media Matters for America
https://twitter.com/owillis

people like @amandacarpenter spent 8 years defending torture, get upset when someone calls it what it is.

THE TRUTH, IT BURNSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS. mt @amandacarpenter I am stunned our President just said "we tortured" people from the podium.