Posted on 12/10/2014 10:56:46 AM PST by jazusamo
Good 6 1/2 minute video with Hayden.
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden on Wednesday defended the agency’s post-9/11 interrogation methods, following the release of a Senate report that slammed their tactics as "brutal" and ineffective.
“These interrogations … gave us kind of a Home Depot-like storage of information on Al Qaeda on which we relied,” Hayden told Fox News. “We are still relying on it today.”
Hayden was one of the top-ranking intelligence officials in the federal government for a decade. He first served as director of the National Security Agency, before taking over at the CIA in 2006 during the George W. Bush administration, under which the interrogation programs began.
Hayden sharply disagreed with the conclusions in the roughly 500-page Senate Intelligence Committee report that techniques such as waterboarding were not effective in gathering intelligence. The report -- a summary of a much larger, classified report -- was released by Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, despite warnings from Republicans and some inside the Obama administration that it could lead to reprisals against Americans.
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They are about to be out of power, losses in ‘10, ‘12, ‘14 so they are getting their revenge against GOP and Bush administrations. They only care about politics. They don’t care about the safety now or then or here or Americans abroad. That is very clear.
This is unfortunately true since the corrupt administration currently occupying the WH wishes harm for the USA and has put our intelligence service on ice. Here's John Yoo ...
Oh for the days when Hayden was in charge of our Nat’l Security!
Absolutely right. Thanks for the link.
Amen...Gen. Hayden knew his job and is a man of integrity unlike 0bama and his thugs.
Obama, Feinstein and the dems are using this as leverage in their larger goal, the shutting down of Gitmo and the release of all prisoners. They will measure their success by the amount of death and damage Americans suffer as a result of their actions.
The rancid odor of treason grows more pungent each day
If the Senate Intelligence Committee issued a report, then that means that the Republicans on the Committee were in agreement with the findings. What does that say about the Republican Senators?
Very well said!
Senate Releases Historic CIA Torture Report Condemning Bush-Era Detainee Treatment
excerpt:
The release additionally closes a winding and tumultuous political saga spanning more than a half-decade that at times cast doubt on whether the report would ever see the light of day. The Senate Intelligence Committee originally voted 14-1 to begin an investigation into the Bush administration's secret detention, rendition, and interrogation practices in March of 2009. With Feinstein at the helm, the panel announced that it expected the study to take "approximately one year to complete."
But the investigation's progress was soon derailed when, later that year, Republicans on the committee chose to cease their involvement, due to objections to a concurrent investigation carried out by the Justice Department.
I surmise the release of these docs is either a diversion or part of the plan to continue dividing and dismantling this nation. It looks like it’s working on those in DC and it’s only been one day.
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” then that means that the Republicans on the Committee were in agreement with the findings. What does that say about the Republican Senators?”
Just what you think it means.
ONE PARTY
Most certainly does not. They issued a minority report which said that there were all sorts of factual errors in the report. Feinstein has issued a political manifesto not an objective review of the program Minority report
This paper was TOTALLY written by Dems.
The CIA has been blamed for everything by Obama....from ISIS in Iraq to Benghazi.
And it's absolutely and totally political.
BUMP!
There were “0” Republicans attached to that report.
Bingo!
Even the lowest tard we had knew something useful.
"Note that there was no judicial review before any of these attacks, nor should there have been. They were purely executive decisions made by President Obama and they resulted, by this estimate, in the deaths of some 473 civilians. Is that OK but the use of coercive interrogation techniques is not? That’s a good question for a college class on the ethics of war. At the very least it’s not an easy question to answer, and it’s one that those who are outraged by the CIA’s interrogation program should grapple with.” Max Boot
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