Why am I not surprised that you continue to dodge and evade? The bottom line is that you are indignant at Bush for allowing what you perceive to be torture against a couple of monsters who had planned 9/11 and the ensuing murder of thousands of innocent Americans, yet you are unwilling to respond to the fact that thousands of American military servicemen have themselves been waterboarded during training, nor are you willing to state what you would deem acceptable interrogation techniques to someone like KSM. You're an empty suit.
I only wish the leaders of the republican party had the stones to make the same point. None of these backstabbers was complaining when they were afraid there would be more attacks. Now they are oh so upset that a few terrorists had horrors inflicted on them, like dogs barking, being put in the box or getting slammed into a wall. Of course, they are unwilling to face the obvious question of what are the acceptable limits under exigent circumstances. Instead, they want to pretend that we are safer if we treat these monsters like domestic criminals or legitimate POWs. If we go down this road of using the criminal law to settle scores with previous administrations, we are finished as a country. The next step will be mobs in the street and military takeovers. Maybe that's what Obama wants.
That's not gonna be happening anytime because the leaders of the GOP are pussies. Even your beloved George Bush denied the Israelis permission to fly over Iraqi airspace last year and take out the main nuclear reactor in Natanz. An even better question is . . . Who ARE the LEADERS of the GOP right now?
Isn't the above a pretty good description of how a Dictator acts? Given the legal "opinion" and authorization (of ONE MAN) that Jay Bybee in the DoJ gave the Bush Administration, what would prevent them from allowing the FBI to use waterboarding on American citizens?
Banned Techniques Yielded âHigh Value Information,â Memo Says By PETER BAKER Published: April 21, 2009 WASHINGTON â President Obamaâs 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. âHigh value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qaâida organization that was attacking this country,â 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. Admiral Blairâs 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. âI like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past,â he wrote, âbut 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.â A spokeswoman for Admiral Blair said the lines were cut in the normal editing process of shortening an internal memo into a media statement emphasizing his concern that the public understand the context of the decisions made in the past and the fact that they followed legal orders. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/us/politics/22blair.html