Posted on 05/13/2009 3:52:28 PM PDT by tobyhill
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is "misleading the American people" by asserting that harsh interrogation tactics used on suspected terrorists were essential to keeping America safe, a Democratic senator charged Wednesday at an oversight hearing on the Bush administration's so-called "torture memos."
Sen. Russ Feingold, Wisconsin Democrat, rejected claims made by Mr. Cheney in recent days that classified CIA memos prove that waterboarding and other techniques approved by the Bush administration Justice Department protected the nation from more terrorist attacks after 9/11.
"Nothing I have seen -- including the two documents to which former Vice President Cheney has repeatedly referred -- indicates that the torture techniques . . . were necessary," said Mr. Feingold, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee who has access to classified documents. "The former vice president is misleading the American people when he says otherwise."
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Why should these blabber-mouthed congress critters be allowed to see the memos while we citizens can’t? Some “transparency”.
Then what caused a change of heart in KSM? How was the plot against LA thwarted?
Hey, Feingold, when it comes to misleading the American people, you’d better check your mirror. You dims are masters at it!!!
There has not been a terrorist attack on American soil since September 11, 2001. Time will tell if the current administration can match that success.
Russ Feingold is a bosy part somewhat south of a putz.
make that “body part”
Then you should have no problem releasing them, should you Senator?
In other words, he admits he was in the loop?
Something tells me these people are digging themselves
in so deep they are gonna freak when it doesn’t break
their way.
Cheney knows this and is helping them shovel.
hopefully this ass hat fall into the same stink hole that nancy is in.
They will be released, at some point. He said He saw , read and concluded nothing was there.
So let them out. rats won’t care, it’s all about power for them.
But - It’s still a center RIGHT Country. Even the ass hats want their kids to live
Perhaps Feingold could tell us, specifically, what he and other libs did to help defend our country from further attacks....... for nearly 8 years.
It’s your moment to brag, libs... come on, tell the American people what you really did to protect us. Tell us what you’re doing now.
No, it isn’t, Feingold.
The memo notes that "[i]nterrogations of [Abu] Zubaydah -- again, once enhanced techniques were employed -- furnished detailed information regarding al Qaeda's 'organizational structure, key operatives, and modus operandi' and identified KSM as the mastermind of the September 11 attacks." This information helped the intelligence community plan the operation that captured KSM. It went on: "Zubaydah and KSM also supplied important information about al-Zarqawi and his network" in Iraq, which helped our operations against al-Qaeda in that country.
Courtesy of Marc Thiesen and the memo that has already been released.
Russ Feingold is liar. So what else is new?
Bravo...
Related thread:
The hidden hand of Dick Cheney (He has them quaking in their Birckenstocks!)
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