Obama considers prosecution for torture

[trainwayne]

Originally Posted by momster

Wayne - yahoo - you come thru...

Yes Cheney is asking for the doc's to be released.

Why do you think?

The documents ARE released. What Cheney wants is for others to be released to cloud what was released already......just his way of clouding the original issue and diverting the damaging facts.....kinda like if you're caught in a lie, tell a bigger one to try to get out of it.

[momster]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/us...s/22blair.html


President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the harsh interrogation techniques banned by the White House did produce significant information that helped the nation in its struggle with terrorists.
“High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was attacking this country,” Adm. Dennis C. Blair, the intelligence director, wrote in a memo to his staff last Thursday.
Admiral Blair sent his memo on the same day the administration publicly released secret Bush administration legal memos authorizing the use of interrogation methods that the Obama White House has deemed to be illegal torture. Among other things, the Bush administration memos revealed that two captured Qaeda operatives were subjected to a form of near-drowning known as waterboarding a total of 266 times.


The New York Times, which got a copy of the memo, also notices some odd redactions from the version released by the White House:
Admiral Blair’s assessment that the interrogation methods did produce important information was deleted from a condensed version of his memo released to the media last Thursday. Also deleted was a line in which he empathized with his predecessors who originally approved some of the harsh tactics after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
“I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past,” he wrote, “but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.”
In other words, the Obama administration covered up the fact that even their own DNI acknowledges that the interrogations produced actionable and critical information. When Dick Cheney demanded the release of the rest of the memos relating that information, he wasn’t just going on a fishing expedition. Cheney filed a request to declassify those memos in March, and the CIA has yet to decide on his request, but we can no longer doubt that records exist showing the success of those interrogations.

[Hog&Tow]

Clinton says Cheney not a "reliable source"

[momster]

Well imagine that...


sur- p r i s e, sur- p r i s e, sur- p r i s e,

[Hog&Tow]

Originally Posted by momster

Well imagine that...


sur- p r i s e, sur- p r i s e, sur- p r i s e,

and I did it without an obnoxious wall of text......cool,huh?

[momster]

Originally Posted by Hog&Tow

and I did it without an obnoxious wall of text......cool,huh?

Must say that I personally enjoyed hearing that you found the text obnoxious.

[Hog&Tow]

Originally Posted by momster

Must say that I personally enjoyed hearing that you found the text obnoxious.

didjagitcher cookies?

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"we should invade their countries, kill their leaders & convert them to Christianity" Ann Coulture

Ann is right once again.

[Hog&Tow]

Originally Posted by Slugo

"we should invade their countries, kill their leaders & convert them to Christianity" Ann Coulture

Ann is right once again.

hell, that bitch should be sued for plagerism....I bet she got it from Rush.

[trainwayne]

Hey Mom...I'll ask you the same questions that unpro and tfb and mr nobody and the rest of the "intelligent" people apparently can't or won't answer.......

1. Are Social Security, Medicaid, and Medicare socialist programs?

2. Are you, or anyone in your family receiving, or have ever received any benefit from those programs?

I've asked for simple yes or no answers, yet all I've seen are paragraphs of bullshit.
Yes is yes, and no is no....too hard for the rest of them I guess......your turn.

I would think that one of you could give an honest answer.