Obama ‘no different from’ Bush

Former US Senate candidate and political commentator Mark Dankof says the torture dispute between CIA and Senate and White House shows US President Barack Obama is no different from his predecessor George W. Bush.

Dankof said in an interview with Press TV: “This all situation between Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman, Dianne Feinstein, and the head of the CIA, john Brennan, over the whole issue of CIA waterboarding reveals several things: the first is that Barack Obama is no different from its predecessor on everything from domestic surveillance to CIA waterboarding and the drone strikes. It is the same foreign policy and the same methodology.”

He made the remarks as a new report revealed that the administration of President Barack Obama has been preventing the Senate Intelligence Committee and investigators from reviewing CIA records about torturous interrogation techniques carried out during the presidency of George W Bush. The report also comes as the CIA and the Senate Intelligence Committee have been involved in a bitter battle over secret agency’s alleged spying on Senate staff members who were investigating the controversial CIA interrogation program.