The following appears in the Aiken Standard. It is disheartening and in fact frightening to see how far the Obama administration will go to carry on it's unrelenting hate campaign against President Bush in order to keep its base happy.In typical Chicago style politics the White House had ordered the release of the CIA interogation techniques that were used to extract vital information from terrorists.that saved countless American lives. We must insist that the CIA top secret memos cataloging the many lives saved by these "harsh tactics." also be released. Thus far the White House doesn't sound eager to do it..
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Obama open to Hill probe of harsh interrogations
4/21/2009 12:11 PM
By JENNIFER LOVEN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Barack Obama is leaving the door to 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. But Obama did say, nevertheless, he could support a Hill investigation if it were conducted in a bipartisan way. more
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.
ReplyDelete“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.
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.
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.
Obama has occasionally suggested a truth-and-reconciliation approach to probing the use of torture by the Bush administration, but this establishes that Obama isn’t terribly interested in “truth”. Withholding the truth that waterboarding produced information that saved hundreds of American lives, perhaps thousands, shows that Obama values public relations more than he does the truth.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/22/obamas-dni-reminds-obama-that-enhanced-interrogation-worked/
Obama's own national security director told him that harsh interrogations worked but Obama still pushed the lie that they don't work.
ReplyDeleteWhat the lamestream media forgets to report is that Congress, Democrats AND Republicans, BEGGED the CIA to have harsh interrogations with the 9/11 mastermind and others.
ReplyDeleteCongressional Democrats have conveniently "forgotten" too. They rely entirely too much on the short memories of most Americans.
Power Line has also addressed the intelligence issue. We should be very afraid of what is happening to the intelligence community. Copy and paste the following link:
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Only someone who has chosen so many tax cheats for his cabinet could possibly try to criminalize policy decisions that were properly made between the Justice Department and Congress.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we should criminalize historic buffoonery and stupidity. Obama's Homeland Security secretary, Janet Nepalotano said over the weekend the 9/11 terrorists came into the country via the Canadian border. This is leftwing nutjob kook talk that has been repeatedly disproven.
This is the same woman who obeys Obama's orders not to call jihadists terrorists but permits veterans like me to be called "potential domestic terrorists".
Pelosi has had time to finesse her position now.
ReplyDeleteHer new position is that she did receive a briefing from the CIA about waterboarding but she was only told they COULD use it, not that they WOULD use it. hahaha
And Democrats are busy busy busy. They are falsely claiming that they can't complain to anyone about what they hear in intelligence briefings. Of course, this is untrue as Sen. Rockefeller is well know to have complained about something years ago he heard in an intel briefing.
And if they couldn't even talk with each other, how is it that the conservative media have known about this for 7 years? The Washington Post reported on it a little late, last year, but they named Pelosi and other democrats as being at these briefings about waterboarding.
I mean, if these pols are going to lie, could they be a little more imaginative?
Powerline has some new excellent comments on this subject. Go here:
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