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Senate Intelligence Committee’s Report Confirms that CIA Did Not Torture Detainees
PowerLine ^ | 12/9/2014 | John Hinderaker

Posted on 12/11/2014 9:54:40 AM PST by mojito

...The striking fact about the Agency’s alleged misrepresentations, as catalogued by the Senate committee, is that they relate almost entirely to collateral matters. As to the basics, it appears that what the Agency and the Bush and Obama administrations have been telling us for years was true. In particular, it has been said that only three men, all vicious, high-ranking terrorists, were waterboarded. As best I can glean from the report, that is correct. But the report displays an extraordinary solicitude for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah, the two principal terrorists who were waterboarded. It goes on at almost unbelievable length about their treatment by the CIA. Whoever wrote the report appears to have more regard for Zubaydah than for Michael Hayden.

Similarly, the report confirms that the Agency’s enhanced interrogation techniques were used on only a small number of captured terrorists, 39 altogether. These enhanced techniques include the “belly slap” and the dreaded “attention grasp.”

Most important, it appears that waterboarding really was the most extreme sanction to which any of the terrorists were subjected (and only three of them, at that). Given all the hoopla about CIA “torture,” one might have expected to learn that far worse happened at the Agency’s dark sites. But, as far as the report discloses, the Agency stuck almost exclusively to its approved list of tactics, all of which the Department of Justice specifically found not to be torture.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: california; cia; diannefeinstein; feinstein; obama; torture; waterboarding
Even though it's not true, at least the report served it real purpose: to allow liberals to feel morally indignant and superior to the men and women of the CIA, and to the evil Cheney Bushitler.

That, and undermine US Security.

1 posted on 12/11/2014 9:54:40 AM PST by mojito
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To: mojito
The secrets of war should be sealed for 50 years.

Especially when we're dealing with muzzies who lob off your head after days and months and years of torture.

2 posted on 12/11/2014 9:58:10 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: mojito

Daniel Pearl had no comment.................
Nick Berg Had no comment............
Jack Hensley had no comment.................
Eugene Armstrong had no comment.................
Paul Marshall Johnson, Jr had no comment.................
Steven Sotloff had no comment.................
James Foley had no comment.................


3 posted on 12/11/2014 10:04:35 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Red Badger

yeah......


4 posted on 12/11/2014 10:09:23 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: mojito

But leftist Dianne Feinstein is torturing America.


5 posted on 12/11/2014 10:10:40 AM PST by Iron Munro (D.H.S. has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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To: Red Badger
But...but...they were made to wear underwear over their heads, whaaaaaa

/s

6 posted on 12/11/2014 10:12:30 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: Sacajaweau
hands up dont jihad!




7 posted on 12/11/2014 10:34:21 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: mojito

I’d favor waterboarding those who wrote this crap report


8 posted on 12/11/2014 10:46:26 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: mojito

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- Senator Di-Fi Finestein-Blum must be making huge bucks by encouraging the self proclaimed Shreek of Iran to terrorize Sydney Australia today - anything this scummy war profiteer must have way of making millions fro,m it .

- A .Tri-Burst from a 50 caliber semiautomatic-auto Barrett sniper rifle could have taken out that sub-human “Son-of-Obama” Muzzie early thru the from window.

- Concrats Di-Fi; you got First Blood quickly

.


9 posted on 12/15/2014 10:05:25 AM PST by devolve (- Obama is likely to die of vodka and cocaine before 2016 - nicorette will not save "Stinky" -)
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