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Instead of prosecuting torturers, Obama prosecuted the guy who revealed the program
Vox ^ | Dec 9,2014 | Timothy B Lee

Posted on 12/09/2014 2:55:51 PM PST by NoLibZone

The details in the Senate report on Central Intelligence Agency torture, released today, are shocking. But don't expect anyone to be held responsible. The only person the Obama administration has prosecuted in connection with the torture program is a man who revealed its existence to the media.

see:

Ex-C.I.A. Officer Charged in Information Leak

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/us/ex-cia-officer-john-kiriakou-accused-in-leak.html?_r=0

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; cia; diannefeinstein; feinsteinreport; johnkiriakou; waterboarding
Another fake issue by the left.

The report finds the CIA lied to Bush about the full extent of its program.

Obama is the only US president to grant immunity for torture.

1 posted on 12/09/2014 2:55:51 PM PST by NoLibZone
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2 posted on 12/09/2014 3:05:33 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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3 posted on 12/09/2014 3:11:49 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: NoLibZone; All
Either 3 different CIA Heads and at least a dozen lesser officers lied to the US Congress, or those members of Congress are lying about being briefed on the full nature of the Interrogation Program.

The Senate report is:

1. Congress seeking to paint the CIA as the liars

2. Congress (and the left generally) attempting to convince the American People the program (torture) did not and does not work.

All of this is revealed in this single ludicrous claim:

KSM was Waterboarded 183 times and was not broken, did not give up any useful information. And was still giving false information.

I gar an damn tee you those words were never spoken by CIA or anyone else in the National Security Establishment.

That contention was invented out of whole cloth by the Senate Investigators.

4 posted on 12/09/2014 3:31:03 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: NoLibZone

“When it is a crime to reveal a crime then you are ruled by criminals”


5 posted on 12/09/2014 3:56:02 PM PST by MeganC (It took Democrats four hours to deport Elian Gonzalez)
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To: NoLibZone

Instead of prosecuting torturers, Obama prosecuted the guy who revealed the program

This is supposed to be some sort of bad thing?


6 posted on 12/09/2014 4:38:09 PM PST by Valin (I'm not completely worthless. I can be used as a bad example.)
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To: Valin

Hussein Obama,Americas first Muslim President, thinks Americans are idiots.

So far, he is right.


7 posted on 12/09/2014 5:08:56 PM PST by politicianslie (To fool Americans, you only have to fool the presstittues. Hussein Obama is working hard to kill us)
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To: Mariner

Bush Interrogated Terrorists to Get Information; Obama Kills Them With Drones

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/bush-interrogated-terrorists-get-information-obama-kills-them-drones


8 posted on 12/09/2014 8:17:24 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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