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CNBC Anchor Blasts NYT for Ignoring Wide Public Support of Enhanced Interrogation on Terrorists

December 17, 2014

CNBC anchor Joe Kernen slammed the New York Times for "moral superiority" in its reporting on the CIA interrogation while ignoring that a majority of Americans support enhanced interrogation techniques such as waterboarding.

"If the New York Times can occupy a position of moral superiority, they run with it--but they're talking to a country that's at 51-28," Kernen said.

CNBC Washington correspondent John Harwood said Democrats can only push the issue of CIA interrogation so far before it becomes a political liability.

"The president himself, we've dropped a few drones where there may have been some unintended consequences as well," Kernen said. "And the guys we do drop them on, we were not just trying to waterboard them. I think we're trying to kill them, are we not?"

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