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That big CIA ‘torture’ report? Americans just shrugged.
WAPO ^ | Dec. 15, 2014 | Aaron Blake

Posted on 12/15/2014 7:48:03 PM PST by PROCON

A new poll from the Pew Research Center is the first to gauge reactions to last week's big CIA report on "enhanced interrogation techniques" -- what agency critics call torture.

And the reaction is pretty muted.

The poll shows people says 51-29 percent than the CIA's methods were justified and 56-28 percent that the information gleaned helped prevent terror attacks.


(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 201412; alissamstarzak; bleedingheartattack; cia; danieljones; danjones; dianefeinstein; diannefeinstein; eit; johnadamsproject; panettareview; starzak; stolendocuments; torture
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Liberal Response: But..but...but...water-boarding denies detainees of their dignity...it's torture...we should just reason with them...Bush lied....Cheney is a War Criminal....Islam is a religion of Peace....Global warming made them do this.............................
1 posted on 12/15/2014 7:48:03 PM PST by PROCON
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To: PROCON

If liberals had their way, questioning would be limited to saying pretty please no more than twice per day so as not to annoy the terrorists.


2 posted on 12/15/2014 7:51:39 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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To: PROCON

water boarding? please if you want to torture a guy

an old style crank field radio-phone with the wires

attached to “delicate” part of his anatomy is torture.

But libs always have preferred the meta-physical to the physical.


3 posted on 12/15/2014 7:54:25 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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an old style crank field radio-phone with the wires

My dad brought an old Jap one back after WWII; he got me with it and then I would get younger sister until she smartened up :-)

4 posted on 12/15/2014 7:56:52 PM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%...unless you're donating blood.)
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To: PROCON
I'd like to know how he feels.
5 posted on 12/15/2014 7:57:28 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The trouble with America is that it's full of Americans. - The commie DemocRATS.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

It will be a good campaign topic for 2016-that is, if the Republican candidate doesn’t do that polite BS that causes them to lose.


6 posted on 12/15/2014 7:58:11 PM PST by dandiegirl
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To: PROCON

Ouch! Being the older brother YOU probably deserved such treatment, but to do that to your baby sister, for shame, for shame, . . . . LOL


7 posted on 12/15/2014 7:59:46 PM PST by txnativegop (Tired of liberals, even a few in my own family.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Good one, typical dumbass, muslim loving lib...


8 posted on 12/15/2014 8:00:12 PM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%...unless you're donating blood.)
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To: PROCON

Americans have a different set of American values than the America-hating commie ‘RATS have.


9 posted on 12/15/2014 8:00:43 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The trouble with America is that it's full of Americans. - The commie DemocRATS.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

In order to save time and money, Guantanamo could have been done much less expensively by a single out of work ex-Stasi East German with a car battery and a set of jumper cables. Dangerous high voltage not needed.


10 posted on 12/15/2014 8:06:06 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.")
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To: PROCON

I watched as about a dozen or so funerals/memorial services (mostly firemen) took place in the area where I live about 60 miles north of ground zero.

You almost expected to see a funeral procession everyday going down the road for weeks after the carnage of that terrible day.

A few I knew or knew of.

Now ask me if I give a good damn about what was done to some feral murdering automaton.


11 posted on 12/15/2014 8:08:23 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: PROCON

Good!
If 0bama and the progressives are blackmailing the RINO’s with this stuff, just release all the dirt and take away the Progressive leverage


12 posted on 12/15/2014 8:09:36 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: headstamp 2; All
Yup...


13 posted on 12/15/2014 8:12:56 PM PST by PROCON (Always give 100%...unless you're donating blood.)
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To: PROCON

One big yawn.


14 posted on 12/15/2014 8:15:36 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: PROCON

Cheney and the intel community had a good, forceful pushback when this garbage came out. Looks like it was effective.


15 posted on 12/15/2014 8:16:43 PM PST by what's up
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To: PROCON

Thank you for posting this. I find the results very encouraging.


16 posted on 12/15/2014 8:39:08 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: PROCON

Jack Bauer. Mitch Rapp. Problem?


17 posted on 12/15/2014 8:50:51 PM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: PROCON

You don’t understand.

Juan Williams told Bill O that the 20% undecided vote belongs to the “No” vote.....so, it’s an even split.......

It’s getting expensive throwing bricks through my TV......


18 posted on 12/15/2014 8:51:10 PM PST by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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That big CIA ‘torture’ report? Americans just shrugged...most are smart enough to know that most of the report was a bunch of BS - for example the psychologist involved in much of the questioning of the terrorists revealed tonight in a riveting interview on the "Kelly File" on Fox (to be continued tomorrow night) that the supposed eighty water-boarding sessions on one detainee cited in the report actually represented eighty individual dousings of a few seconds each, extended over many fewer actual sessions than eighty - he correctly described the report as a petty Democrat political maneuver which ultimately will hurt the country......
19 posted on 12/15/2014 8:56:13 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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Because swallowing some water, when we have every intention of keeping them alive, isn’t torture.

Particularly, when we will provide world class medical care, dental care, halal food and so much more....right TF after your Bass Terd animals tell us what we wanna know.

Everyone making a big deal out of this and proclaiming it’s hypocritical to our values is a boo chit, poosy trying to gain some moral high ground and assuage their guilt for other sins by condemning this “really righteous act”, which a supreme irony considering one group of people will do anything to save Americans and another group will pull any stunt, throwing other Americans under a bus, well...when it’s convenient and danger has passed.

Well, uh...FU

Nancy Pelosi, Jane Harmon, Jay Rockefeller knew all about what was going on.

None of these loons objected to a really awesome movie, made solely to prop up their hapless leader, where waterboarding was shown regularly and gloriously.

And Jessica “eat my Shiite” Chastain the new heroine of up and coming stars.

Waterboarding? That sure never came up in any conversations that I had.

What did come up were the word “Courageou”, over and over again, azz if Obama was himself ran up 3 flights of stairs, wasting terrorists along the way and finally offing Bin Laden, like some Kenyan super hero!

And how did we find that souless, turbin wearing, rat?

Well, we tor...erh, uhm...we simulated drowning, with medical staff and attorney’s in the same room.

Result?

The name of a nobody, sitting in a file, who no one paid any attention to until some choked on a couple ounces of water and we made sure he lived through the experience, with no lasting effects...other than the knowledge that the experience sucked.

Well, we followed that no name loser, working on Allah’s behalf and after years of observing patiently, finally made the case that Bum Laden was in that building and a few other names.

Waterboard? I slalom water ski, Longboard surf and snowboard worldwide.

I’d try waterboard....


20 posted on 12/15/2014 9:15:10 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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