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- Pelosi Under Fire As Democrats, Gop Question Interrogation Claims
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- Banned Techniques Yielded ‘high Value Information,’ Memo Says
from New York Times : Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says By PETER BAKER WASHINGTON – President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the harsh interrogation techniques...
- Dick Cheney: Obama’s Acting Like A Weak President
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- Ex-cia Director: Obama Compromised National Security With Memo Release
Michael Hayden says what we've all been thinking and saying the last few days. Newsmax: Ex-CIA Director: Obama Compromised National Security with Memo Release Sunday, April 19, 2009 10:00 PM WASHINGTON - A former head of the Central Intelligence Agency...
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Obama Open to Interrogation Prosecution
This man should be careful about throwing stones. Start prosecuting those who were acting in what they thought was the best defense of this country and you'll hear from the other side a cacophony of ODS birth certificate Manchurian candidate questionable campaign contributions etc that will dwarf anything we're seeing now.
Somewhere in an earlier post or comment someone asked if Malia or Sasha were kidnapped and Obama knew unless he capitulated to whatever the demands were within 12 hrs he'd start getting fingers back one at a time, would he be so quick to dismiss harsh interrogation techniques?
Same thing here. They were working to prevent another 9/11 or worse, working in uncharted territory as far as National Defense was concerned (nevermind that it should never have degraded that far to begin with that's not the issue here).
We have forgotten who the villains are, who's wearing the black hats. To our own peril.
We have forgotten who the villains are, who's wearing the black hats. To our own peril.
Prosecute them now and how easy do you think it wil be to fill the ranks with people who can make the hard decisions when needed?
from MSNBC:
Obama open to some interrogation prosecution
But president concerned about the impact of hearings
But president concerned about the impact of hearings
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is leaving the door open to possible prosecution of Bush administration officials who devised harsh terrorism-era interrogation tactics.
He also said Tuesday that he worries about the impact of high-intensity hearings on how detainees were treated under former President George W. Bush.
He also said Tuesday that he worries about the impact of high-intensity hearings on how detainees were treated under former President George W. Bush.
But Obama did say, nevertheless, he could support a congressional investigation if it were conducted in a bipartisan way.
Obama has said he does not support charging CIA agents and interrogators who took part in waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics, acting on advice from superiors that such practices were legal. But he also said that it is up to the attorney general whether to prosecute Bush administration lawyers who wrote the memos approving these tactics.
Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, had said this weekend that the Obama administration would not seek prosecution of the Bush administration lawyers.
Last week, Obama's Justice Department published previously classified memos that described the Bush administration's legal justification for CIA interrogation techniques that included methods criticized as torture.
Republican lawmakers and former CIA chiefs have criticized the release of the memos, contending that revealing the limits of interrogation techniques will hamper the effectiveness of interrogators.
the rest here
- Pelosi Under Fire As Democrats, Gop Question Interrogation Claims
Newsmax: Pelosi Under Fire as Democrats, GOP Question Interrogation Claims Wednesday, May 13, 2009 11:30 AM WASHINGTON — U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- a key ally of President Barack Obama -- has come under fire over whether she has long known about...
- President Palin's Quandary: To Prosecute Or Not
from Politics Daily h/t Maggie's Farm President Palin's Quandary: To Prosecute Or Not There has been a lot of debate on the potential prosecution of Bush Administration officials who offered legal opinions supporting waterboarding -- with some...
- Banned Techniques Yielded ‘high Value Information,’ Memo Says
from New York Times : Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says By PETER BAKER WASHINGTON – President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the harsh interrogation techniques...
- Dick Cheney: Obama’s Acting Like A Weak President
from Newsmax: Dick Cheney: Obama’s Acting Like A Weak President Monday, April 20, 2009 7:35 PM Former Vice President Dick Cheney slammed the Obama administration Monday night for what he described as a disturbing tendency to criticize America abroad...
- Ex-cia Director: Obama Compromised National Security With Memo Release
Michael Hayden says what we've all been thinking and saying the last few days. Newsmax: Ex-CIA Director: Obama Compromised National Security with Memo Release Sunday, April 19, 2009 10:00 PM WASHINGTON - A former head of the Central Intelligence Agency...