Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The Cost of "Enhanced Interrogation," and LAUSD vs Antibiotic Chickens
Today we take a deeper dive into yesterday’s much-anticipated report from the Senate Intelligence Committee on the C.I.A.’s post-9/11 interrogation and detention program. How much did so-called enhanced interrogation techniques cost taxpayers? And who are the two psychologists who were paid $81 million to design the program?
By Madeleine Brand • • 51m ListenWe start with a follow-up to yesterday’s much-anticipated Senate Intelligence Committee report on the C.I.A.’s post-9/11 “enhanced interrogation” program: How much did it cost, and who were the architects behind it? Then, the LAUSD is one of six large school districts in the country that wants to ban antibiotic-treated chickens from cafeterias. Are they heading for a fight with the poultry industry? Next, we talk to a journalist who traveled to the South Texas border and made a documentary about what happens when Mexican migrants forced to take dangerous routes into the U.S. don’t make it. Finally, in our weekly Internet roundup, we talk about the difference between trolling and reporting in the wake of the Rolling Stone UVA scandal.
