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Who is CIA director John Brennan?
cnn ^ | 12-11-2014 | Eric Bradner

Posted on 12/12/2014 2:08:07 AM PST by Citizen Zed

Nearly two years ago, John Brennan worked hard to convince the Senate that he was no believer in torture -- and that if he was confirmed as CIA director, he wouldn't represent a return to George W. Bush-era tactics.

He told Senators at the time that he'd read the Senate Intelligence Committee's summary of its investigation into those "enhanced interrogation techniques" and that it had "raised serious questions" in his mind about whether those techniques had been effective.

Now, Brennan finds himself firmly on the other side, defending the CIA in the days after that report's summary was finally release to the public.

He's slated to speak on the CIA's interrogation tactics -- and the intelligence they elicited -- during a rare 1:30 p.m. news conference.

It's a stark turnaround for Brennan, and one that has infuriated some Democratic lawmakers.

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


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Remember that TV show The Circus of the Stars? That's a good name for the Obama administration.
1 posted on 12/12/2014 2:08:07 AM PST by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed

This from a terrific site “Sweetness & Light” in 2010

That’s right, from 2010.

between 2001 and 2007, the CIA briefed at least 68 members of Congress on the CIA interrogation program, including so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques.” The documents include the dates of all congressional briefings and, in some cases, the members of Congress in attendance and the specific subjects discussed. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who previously denied she was briefed by the CIA on the use of these techniques, is specifically referenced in a briefing that took place on April 24, 2002, regarding the “ongoing interrogations of Abu Zubaydah.” Zubaydah had been subjected to the enhanced interrogation techniques.

More

 According to a June 1, 2005, CIA report entitled, Detainee Reporting Pivotal for the War Against Al-Qa’ida, “Detainee reporting accounts for more than half of all HUMINT reporting on al-Qa’ida since the program began…”

And more still

 Moreover, according to an April 2009 CNN report, President Obama’s Intelligence Director, retired Admiral Dennis Blair, told colleagues in an April 16 memo on the subject of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” that “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.”

 http://sweetness-light.com/archive/docs-pelosi-dems-briefed-on-waterboarding#.VIpf1XaIZdY

And here is the meat of research by Judicial Watch, February 2010

 http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-obtains-documents-regarding-congressional-cia-torture-briefings/


2 posted on 12/12/2014 2:15:14 AM 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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To: Citizen Zed

Did any of those others who were next on the list to be interrogated give up information?

Did any others flip immediately upon capture based on fear of what would happen?


3 posted on 12/12/2014 2:16:34 AM PST by ObamahatesPACoal
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To: Citizen Zed

Let’s get real here and it’s been reported in the past:
“The freakin Senate Intelligence Commitee was apprised of this as it was occuring”.

No one said “Hey, that’s not what we’re about.  Stop”

Here are just some examples of what really happened and don’t fool yourself about any lady or grandmother being saintly and sweet.

In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA’s overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.

“...on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.

    “The briefer was specifically asked if the methods were tough enough,” said a U.S. official who witnessed the exchange.”

The lawmakers who held oversight roles during the period included Pelosi and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and Sens. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), as well as Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan).

http://www.truth-out.org/archive/item/74915-hill-briefed-on-waterboarding-in-2002

See any freakin democrats on that list?

Fk them and their pure as the driven snow and high moral standing.

They approved of it and wondered if we could do more.

Like what?  Serve em a birthday cake?

Cuz the sure in the hell wasn’t what they were asking.

None of the other lawmakers briefed raised formal objections. Those lawmakers included former Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL), former Sen. John Rockefeller IV (D-WV), former Rep. Porter Goss (R-FL) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KN).

“Individual lawmakers’ recollections of the early briefings varied dramatically, but officials present during the meetings described the reaction as mostly quiet acquiescence, if not outright support,” the Post added. ‘Among those being briefed, there was a pretty full understanding of what the CIA was doing,’ said Goss, who chaired the House intelligence committee from 1997 to 2004 and then served as CIA director from 2004 to 2006. ‘And the reaction in the room was not just approval, but encouragement.’”

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Pelosi_did_not_object_to_waterboarding_1209.html

There are more articles detailing just who knew and approved of this but, suffice to say if George Bush was such a bastard what does that make Pelosi and Rockefeller?

Dianne did not do her friends any favors and I hope the alternative media, at least, picks up on this.

If the Democrats want to serve as moralists, in hindsight, then let’s put everyone on the same pile of crap they are shoveling.


4 posted on 12/12/2014 2:30:15 AM 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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To: Citizen Zed
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/11/rumor-check-ex-fbi-agent-claims-obamas-cia-nominee-is-really-a-secret-muslim-recruited-by-saudis/
5 posted on 12/12/2014 2:39:46 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Citizen Zed

Trash


6 posted on 12/12/2014 4:14:48 AM PST by mulligan (I)
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To: Citizen Zed

A link to the full-text Free Republic thread.


7 posted on 12/12/2014 4:32:09 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Citizen Zed

PRECISELY what do you expect from the Muzzie appointee of a Muzzie POTUS??
Honesty?? Integrity?? Competence, even??


8 posted on 12/12/2014 5:01:37 AM PST by Flintlock (Soapbox failed, Ballotbox didn't work--the BULLET BOX is what's left to us.)
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To: Vendome

bookmark


9 posted on 12/12/2014 6:34:11 AM PST by ElayneJ
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