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This year [2016] we're seeing a really strange upending [of the party]. The money was coming from these super-wealthy donors who were really on the far, hard right, people like the Kochs. So the party and the candidates moved so far to the right that a lot of people who don't share their point of view were unhappy.

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There's not as much big money on the left, but you've got George Soros, who has the Open Society Institute. He's pushing liberal policies.

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The idea is that if we can put our own people through something almost as bad as what they might have to go through if they were taken captive, they …

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But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we h…

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And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and u…

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If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.

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Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration and for any other administration.

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We would see another president being accused of being illegitimate, and undermined from day one, which is exactly what these donors did to [Barack] O…

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The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy.

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What these memos do is they make legal acts that were criminal prior to these memos.

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