U.S. Sen. Mark Udall of Eldorado Springs on the campaign trail in 2014. (Udall campaign)
“Itap 2015: Why Are We Still Debating Torture?” is the title of the lecture former U.S. Sen. Mark Udall .
Udall, who has lived in Colorado for several decades, was born and raised in Tucson, the district his late father, Mo, represented for nearly 30 years in Congress. Democrat Mark Udall served in the Colorado Legislature, Congress and as a U.S. senator before losing in November to Republican Cory Gardner of Yuma.
Udall served on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and led the bipartisan effort to rein in the NSA’s dragnet collection of Americans’ personal data. He was one of the leading advocates for of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program.
