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CIA Terrorist Interrogations
Revealed
Obama is playing politics with National Security again.
Immediately after VP Cheney issued his assessment about CIA interrogation
techniques and asked CIA to disclose successful memos. Obama strikes back at
Cheney and threatens retaliation.
As of today - The White House will not address the question of
whether the tactics have been effective
4-24-09 - The Obama administration announced that the Pentagon would
turn over to the American Civil Liberties Union 44 photographs showing
detainee abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq during the Bush
administration. Some experts say the move could have a chilling effect on
the CIA even beyond President Obama's decision last week to release the
so-called "torture memos.
Dr. Mark M. Lowenthal, former Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for
Analysis and Production, says the ACLU push to release the photographs is
reprehensible, "There's nothing to be gained from it. There's no substantive
reason why those photos have to be released. The Obama administration should
have taken the case all the way to the Supreme Court. They should have
fought it all the way,"
4-21-09 Obama now says he will leave the door open to
prosecution of Bush administration officials
who devised harsh terrorism-era interrogation tactics. )
4- 21-09 Admiral Blair, 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. That specific information was deleted from a condensed
version of his memo released to the media last Thursday.
4-21-09 CIA Confirms: Water boarding 9/11 Mastermind Led to Info
that Aborted 9/11-Style Attack on Los Angeles using East Asian
operatives to crash a hijacked airliner into’ a building in Los Angeles.”
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4-20-09 Former Vice President Dick
Cheney sets up a showdown between the president who believes the CIA's
techniques amounted to unwise and immoral torture and the former vice
president who believes the interrogations saved lives. Cheney shared his
thoughts on the CIA memos that were recently declassified and also revealed
his request to the CIA to declassify additional memos that confirm the
success of the Bush administration’s interrogation tactics
CHENEY: “One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this
recent disclosure is they put out the legal memos, the memos that the CIA
got from the Office of Legal Counsel, but they didn't put out the memos
that showed the success of the effort. And there are reports that
show specifically what we gained as a result of this activity. They have
not been declassified.”
“I formally asked that they be declassified now. “I've asked the CIA to take
steps to declassify those memos so we can lay them out there and the
American people have a chance to see what we obtained and what we learned
and how good the intelligence was, as well as to see this debate over the
legal opinions.”
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4-15-09 Obama Releases CIA interrogation techniques
White House senior adviser David Axelrod says
President Barack Obama pondering whether to release
Bush-era memos about CIA interrogation techniques because there were
two principles at stake,“One is the sanctity of
covert operations and keeping faith with the people who do them, and the
impact on national security, on the one hand. And the other was the law
and his belief in transparency.”
(Warrior Note - During his
campaigning, Obama said his Administration would have
transparency.
Quote "Any bill that comes before me. I want the public to have 5 days to
review it online." The public got 10 hours beginning around midnight
Thursday to the Friday Vote.
The thousand page bill written mostly behind closed doors by the Democrats.
Republicans Cry Foul Video News
)
A former top official in the administration of President George W. Bush
called the publication of the memos “unbelievable.” “It's damaging because these are techniques that work and by Obama's
action, we are telling the terrorists what they are,” “We have laid it all out for our enemies. Publicizing the techniques does grave damage to our national security by
ensuring they can never be used again even in a ticking time bomb
scenario where thousands or millions of American lives are at stake."
4-15-09 Dennis Blair, Obama's Top National Intelligence
Director Dennis Blair privately told employees that "high value
information" was obtained in interrogations that included harsh techniques
approved by former President George W. Bush. "A deeper understanding of the
al-Qaida network" resulted. The Associated Press obtained a copy.
4-21-09 The
Central Intelligence Agency told CNSNews.com today
that it stands by the assertion made
in a May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that the use of “enhanced
techniques” of interrogation on al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed,
including the use of waterboarding -- caused KSM to reveal information that
allowed the U.S. government to thwart a planned attack on Los Angeles
California.
Khalid was the mastermind of the first “hijacked-airliner” attacks on the
United States, which struck the World Trade Center in New York and the
Pentagon in Northern Virginia on Sept. 11, 2001.
After Khalid was captured by the United States, he was not initially
cooperative with CIA interrogators. Nor was another top al Qaeda leader
named Zubaydah. Khalid Sheik Mohammed, Zubaydah, and a third terrorist named
Nashiri were the only three persons ever subjected to waterboarding by the
CIA. (Additional terrorist detainees were subjected to other “enhanced
techniques” that included slapping, sleep deprivation, dietary limitations,
and temporary confinement to small spaces - but not to water-boarding.)
 This was because the CIA imposed very tight restrictions on the use of
waterboarding. “The ‘waterboard,’ which is the most intense of the CIA interrogation
techniques, is subject to additional limits,” explained the May 30, 2005
Justice Department memo. “It may be used on a High Value Detainee only if
the CIA has ‘credible intelligence that a terrorist attack is imminent’;
‘substantial and credible indicators that the subject has actionable
intelligence that can prevent, disrupt or deny this attack’; and ‘other
interrogation methods have failed to elicit this information within the
perceived time limit for preventing the attack.’
BLOGGER COMMENT
Show a split screen and on one side show the photo of a terrorist being
waterboarded for up to 40 seconds (complete with a doctor there to ensure
the terrorist does not sustain any injuries). THEN on the other side of the
screen show the gravest of OBAMA APPROVED tortures which is Partial Birth
Abortion. Let the American people then decide which presidential
administration is the most cruel and which administration is the most
ethical
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