[joesbucks]

While I'm not dismissing the techniques used by the US, I wonder if our enemies posted "we just smacked a few around" what our response would be.

I realize that certain of our enemies have gone WAY beyond smacking around. That's not the point. So don't go there. The point is if they had never gone beyond smacking around would that be ok with the people of the US to use those types of measures that were used by us as the enemy sought to gain information from us.

[yldstrk]

So if torture is just A-OK, how long does it take us to descend down the slippery slope to sawing off heads? If killing people accidentally while torturing them for information or just because is just peachy keen, where to draw the line............decisions, decisions.

Answer: We are the good guys and we better act like it.

[rellimpank]

" The CIA’s interrogation techniques are positively genteel in comparison to the beheadings, stonings, and live burials perpetrated by the enemy. The hypocritical Obama administration rains down hellfire missiles in torrents, blasting people into dismembered fragments and nary a sniff is heard from the fawning, monolithic media."

--great quote. Nearly all of the so-called "victims" of purported CIA "torture" are still alive , (unless killed in combat against US forces)--

--wonder if a few years from now any organization will be investigating and threatening THE ONE with "war crimes" for the drone program?

"I'm getting pretty good at this killing people" per NYT article on the Obama "darkened room"--

[Servant of the Cross]

In debauched minds it is fine for our young, once potentially unifying President to boast, "I'm pretty good at killing" while speaking of his own secret kill list, but all hell breaks loose if America's expert and experienced CIA keeps known terrorists up at night for questioning, plays annoying music to get the evil ones' attention, and considers whatever else necessary to keep us safe. (Yuck it up much, Nobel Peacenik President?) From the cozy confines of the White House he blusters a willingness to assassinate whomever he chooses, no need for judicial balance or seasoned military brass strategy – in fact the Community Organizer canned nearly 200 of our top military officials. And leftist response to their leader's suspiciously opaque drone game plan? Crickets.

[goodnesswins]

It’s not torture if they can walk away

[Scooter100]

Police officer from Anytown, USA: "So why aren't you wearing your motorcycle helmet, sonny? Just exactly what is it you are trying to say with this act of defiance? What social "statement" are you trying to make? Are there others like you trying to break the law? Are there? Who are they? What group are you protecting? Huh? Hey Sarge, get the rubber hoses will ya....."

Condoning it for certain circumstances, condones it for all.

[rbg81]

Before this is all said and done, the US Government will apologize to Al Qaeda for all post-911 “aggression”.

[KeyLargo]

9/11 Widow: “Torture Was Watching What Happened on 9/11”
Dec 12, 2014 — 11:46am
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Via freebeacon.com

Terry Strada, a New Jersey native whose husband Tom Strada was killed in the 9/11 terror attacks, was confounded at Senate Democrats’ decision to release a report on CIA ‘torture’ when, she said, “torture was watching what happened on 9/11.”

“What torture was–torture is watching what happened on 9/11, watching people jump out of the buildings to save themselves, to die as opposed to being burned to death or smoke… I had to listen to my husband on the phone when he called me that morning. Torture is telling your children that their father was killed by terrorists on American soil and our government isn’t standing by our side to help us go after the people that caused it,” Strada told CNN’s Carol Costello on Thursday.

“So I live in a tortured environment, and I don’t think pouring water up their nose or making them walk around naked…it doesn’t matter to me.”

Strada, who has actively supported the Justice Against Supporters of Terrorism Act, said she was frustrated that the Senate has refused to declassify a report containing information leading up to the 9/11 attacks—information Strada says would help give closure for her and her fatherless children.

“Who funded 9/11? Who was behind 9/11? Why am I living without a husband? Why are my children living without a father? We don’t address that. We want to talk about what techniques we’ve used,” Strada said.

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[driftless2]

Speaking of stains, there’s Diane Feinstain.

[Iron Munro]

Just another step in the left’s campaign to destroy America.

[wjr123]

“The CIA Smacked Around A Few Terrorists. So What?” Exactly. The days of the Geneva Convention are gone as long as we oppose the expansion of Islamist thug culture.

[Jack Hydrazine]

[Policy Wonk]

Highly inaccurate title: It wasn’t just smacking and they weren’t just terrorists, there were 26 people who were innocent and still tortured.