Posted on 12/11/2014 2:31:08 PM PST by LeoWindhorse
One of the two psychologists who devised the CIA's harsh Bush-era interrogation methods said on Wednesday that a scathing U.S. Senate report on the torture of foreign terrorism suspects "took things out of context" and made false accusations.
"It's a bunch of hooey," James Mitchell told Reuters from his home in Florida when asked for his response to the Senate Intelligence Committee's findings released on Tuesday. "Some of the things are just plain not true."
A day after the Senate report was issued, the U.S. Defense Department said it was shutting its detention facility at Bagram and no longer has custody of any prisoners in Afghanistan, closing another controversial chapter of Washington's long fight against Islamic militancy.
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American patriots should offer to act as a bodyguard force for Dr. Mitchell
Democrats lied. I’m shocked.
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.
ping
it’s time for everyone in the intel community and the specops community that have anything at all on the O admin and the Congressional Dems , to come forth with all they have . Straight on-the-record truth telling like the 3 Benghazi contractors , or massive leaks to any media with the guts to follow up on the leads ( Fox News )
The gloves need to come off .
As Allen West once said “ it’s time to take these Alinsky rules and drive them right back through them “
bayonet !
I think those who know where Barry was born should step forward with their evidence too.
Not the Arpio posse. I think they’ve pretty much shot their credibility
the SS
“Not the Arpio posse. I think they’ve pretty much shot their credibility”
It isn’t the fault of Sheriff Arpaio and the Maricopa County sheriff’s Posse that there is no uncorrupted U.S. Department of Justice, Congress, independent prosecutor, or court who will act on the available evidence that is being suppressed by the Obama Administration and its accomplices.
You know how the Left thinks. It doesn't have to be true-true, it needs only to articulate the larger metatruth that should be true. That's what is really true, even if to say it is blatantly counterfactual and a damned lie.
The whole thing is a pack of lies. It’s falling apart.
Let’s face it; the U.S. Senate’s CIA report is no different than a Lena Dunham rape accusation.
What is Colon Hydrotherapy?
Also known as a “colonic” or “colon lavage”, colon hydrotherapy is a safe, effective method of removing waste from the large intestine without the use of drugs or chemicals by repeated, gentle flushing with water.
Generally, every single weight-loss clinic in Europe offers rectal rehydration. You can figure the costs for a single episode at around fifty to a hundred Euro. Based on comments I’ve read via tourists....you do the procedure and later get some kind of sugary drink or wine. If someone wants to define it as a torture...well....there’s probably over 30,000 Germans a year who pay to get it....’nice and soft’.
Or a Tawana Brawley one, or a Warren Report, or a Linton Johnson campaign promise not to send “our boys” to a land war in Asia.
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