19.12.2014 - 17:20 [ msnbc ]

Obama’s 2014 year-end press conference: 10 topics to expect

8. The Senate torture report and Guantanamo Bay. Given the amount of media attention it’s been getting lately, someone is bound to ask Obama on Friday about the Senate’s scathing torture report. Released last week, the report shows that “CIA interrogation tactics, employed for days or weeks at a time, never led to ‘imminent threat’ intelligence” among other startling revelations. That, coupled with the president’s longstanding promise to close its controversial military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, all but guarantees some controversial questions are coming Obama’s way.