Right or wrong, enhanced interrogations were known to the very people who are "outraged" today, same people who wrote the report. 40 closed door meetings between the CIA and the two intel committees in congress where held between 2003 and 2007, when the program was ended - no waterboarding after 2005.
And never mind that this report deals with issues that are as old as 13 years. None of these interrogations have been conducted since 2007.
75% of everything we knew about al Qaeda in 2004 - 2007 was gleaned from these interrogations. To compare waterboarding to Japanese war crimes demonstrates just how retarded the Left has become. No one was disfigured, no one died or was seriously injured . . . . . . no one. Compare this to Obama's drone killings in which somewhere between 2,400 and 6,000 "by-standing" non-targeted men, women, children have been indiscriminately killed. How in the hell do you justify that fact-without-debate" ??
Your cut and paste crap article claims "we are better than that." Better than what? The killing of "innocents" in your presidents drone attacks? Allowing 150,000 Syrians to be murdered without lifting a finger? Going to sleep 5 hours before two Navy Seals in Benghazi are murdered, not knowing their Commander in Chief had already written them off for the sake some damn election?
"Opaque yellow" is the primary "color" of this Marxist driven Administration. You all have no moral authority to critique any decision made by others, in view of your personal failings.
And you are right about me. I don't give a damn about these interrogated terrorists. They had information we needed to know. There was talk, at the time and immediately after 9/11, that suggested a second wave of homeland attacks including a possible dirty bomb . . . . no time to be cautious with our interrogation tactics. If there had been another attack, in 2002 and the days following, Bush would have been impeached. And no such attacks have occurred since 9/11 . . . . . . not until Obama, that is. Under his feckless policies, we no longer capture and interrogate. We know longer know the long range and detailed plans of our enemies thanks to the policies of the Left and their leader. As a result, more than 400 Americans have been killed or wounded within our 48 state borders, since and because of Obama. Are we better than THAT? Obviously not.
Do you know that the interrogation techniques used, violated no US laws, was investigated by two DOJ agencies including Holder's, without a single prosecution? Do you know that Obama hired his CIA and FBI chiefs, out of the intel community that supported enhanced interrogations?
No one within the CIA was interviewed, not a single interrogation agent was interviewed. For that reason, this report is hardly "comprehensive." In fact, it is only a partisan "parting shot across the bow" by a party that has been destroyed in three elections, elections that have move Democrat Progressives from their strongest positioning in their history, to their weakest since 1928.
The Left is laughable and pathetic, and will score no political gain from this ridiculous and biased report.
“Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any prisoner, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause… for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country.”
ReplyDelete- George Washington, charge to the Northern Expeditionary Force, Sept. 14, 1775
soooo, one day, you all hate GW, condemn him as a murderer of the native Indian, a slave master, and a feckless leader of men, but, today, he is your moral authority ????? If that how this works?
DeleteWhen someone presents a public official with a large pile of the CIA’s own documents, operational cables, and internal memos; and that paper-trail contradicts previous statements by the public official, he has a couple of options.
DeleteThe first is to point out where any particular allegation is factually wrong, to show a flaw in the data, to defend himself factually from the claims presented.
The second option is to flail around, dodge any specifics and double-down on various talking points that evade the central facts at hand.
The second option is exactly what Dick Cheney doing when confronted with the story of Gul Rahman - another person the US tortured to death. Gul Rahman had nothing whatsoever to do with the 9/11 plot.
The pathetic FoxNews consumers are eating up every word DIck Cheney spews.
Gul Rahman, died after unimaginable brutality – beaten, kept awake for 48 hours, kept in total darkness for days, thrown into the Nazi-pioneered ice bath treatment, and then chained to a wall and left to die of hypothermia.
That's what conservative christians are defending.
You are talking about a 13 year old problem. Harsh interrogation tactics were halted by Bush, for crying out loud. The documents to which you refer, were parsed for the sake of a peacenik bias by members of the Democrat Party. This is not a "party document," but a rewrite of history by a few. It is void of any reference to the context of the times and is complete with cherry picked document references. No one in our intel community was interviewed; no intel agents were called to testify; no reference was made to the fact that all tactics were deemed legal, at the time they were used. It is so biased, in fact, that the American people do not agree with the Feinstein report to the tune of 52% to 29%.
DeleteYou should know a bit about cherry picking. Maybe you can post more climate studies from the "Heartland Inst" or from a retired TV weatherman? That's real good stuff.
DeleteOur "TV weathermen" are meteorologists, trained in the creation, reading and interpretation of weather models. THAT is what they do. They are climate scienctists and if they are not qualified to read and debated weather data, no one is. The FACT of the matter is this: since the popular use of satellite data, weather modeling conclusions have been exposed as the tenuous and theoretical malaise it is. Its all about the empirical over the theoretical.
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