The clip is from the often-excellent France 24 show, The Debate, hosted by François Picard. Why keep wasting your time listening to Richard Engel recite rightwing talking points on MSNBC with a dopey host sitting there slack jawed?
The clip starts with Gene Arthur Coyle, Former CIA officer and Professor at the School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University, defending interrogation methods that use torture. Lanah Kammourieh, a human rights legal expert from Lebanon jumps in first to school him. But it’s Alka Pradhan, an attorney with Reprieve US who calmly, methodically, and relentlessly refutes every single word that falls out of Coyle’s mouth leaving him with a look of defeated exasperation that’s priceless.
The rest of the broadcast is embedded below the croissant orange. It features:
Alka Pradhan
Counterterrorism counsel, Reprieve US
Gene Arthur Coyle
Former CIA officer and Professor at the School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University
Régis Le Sommier
Associate Editor in Chief, Paris Match
Lanah Kammourieh
Human rights legal scholar
The Debate hosted by François Picard on France 24’s English channel is broadcast Monday through Thursday. For US viewers, it streams through France 24’s website at:
http://www.france24.com/...