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NY Times Editors Call for Prosecution of 'Torturers,' Including Dick Cheney, George Tenet
NewsBusters.org ^ | December 22, 2014 | Randy Hall

Posted on 12/22/2014 5:53:11 PM PST by Kaslin

In an angry editorial published in the Sunday edition of the New York Times, the newspaper's editorial board called on president Barack Obama to “Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses.”

The list of offenders “in a credible investigation” is a long one, including former vice president Dick Cheney; his chief of staff, David Addington; former CIA director George Tenet; and John Yoo and Jay Bybee, the lawyers for the Office of Legal Counsel who helped draft the documents clearing the way for “enhanced interrogation“ of prisoners and enemy combatants.

In addition, the editors called for charges to be brought against Jose Rodriguez, Jr., the CIA official who ordered the destruction of supposedly incriminating videotapes; the psychologists who devised the “torture regimen;” and the agency employees who carried out those directives.

The board also asserted:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: bleedingheartattack; davidaddington; dickcheney; georgetenet; interrogation; jaybybee; johnyoo; nyt; presidentgwbush; residentbarak0bama; thenewyorkslimes
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1 posted on 12/22/2014 5:53:12 PM PST by Kaslin
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2 posted on 12/22/2014 5:55:16 PM PST by dontreadthis
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NYT trying to distract attention from the cop murders on Obola’s doorstep.


3 posted on 12/22/2014 5:55:31 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Any energy source that requires a subsidy is, by definition, "unsustainable.")
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Angry editorial?

I’d say they were angry that they have been caught having complicity with the murder of the two NYPD cops.


4 posted on 12/22/2014 5:56:11 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (The Gruber Revelations are proof that God is still smiling on America.)
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I have no love for either of those gentlemen, but I’ll stand armed guard at their house to make sure this doesn’t happen.


5 posted on 12/22/2014 5:56:22 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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Funny. Hope it doesn’t get zotted. It belongs in this thread.


6 posted on 12/22/2014 5:56:46 PM PST by Veggie Todd (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. TJ)
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And yet that editor loves Al Zawari


7 posted on 12/22/2014 5:57:11 PM PST by realcleanguy
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We need to call for the prosecution of the NYT editors.

Through irresponsible reporting and editorial hate speech they've indirectly caused many times more American deaths than Dick Cheney has in their most fevered marxist dreams.

8 posted on 12/22/2014 5:57:16 PM PST by skeeter
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They’re so cute.


9 posted on 12/22/2014 5:57:34 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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NYC grows more disgusting by the minute!


10 posted on 12/22/2014 5:57:39 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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Yet, they embrace the Castro brothers.


11 posted on 12/22/2014 5:58:55 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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Traitors advocating criminal charges against those defending America.


12 posted on 12/22/2014 5:59:04 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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I like THOSE “Old Grey ladies”! :-)


13 posted on 12/22/2014 6:04:47 PM PST by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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Long past due for some “enhanced intrrogation” of the NYT...


14 posted on 12/22/2014 6:04:49 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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Yep, if I had any criticism of the group that was in charge during this period in our history ... the didn’t do enough “torturing”.

Every prisoner sent to GTMO should have spent their first week there undergoing water boarding. Water boarded until they had no more to say. Might have saved us many casualties and shortened the war overall by many years.


15 posted on 12/22/2014 6:06:25 PM PST by doc1019
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It’s the New York Times perpetrating upon our society a typical New York Times Leftist tactic. It’s a tactic. It’s what Leftists do all the time. This tactic is in support of their Leftist buddies of the Democrat party.

Basically they are saying Democrats don’t torture people, and Republicans do. It’s a simple message they are trying to pound into the brains of the American voters who just tossed the Democrats out of office. It’s a tactic in a war for minds, and souls. IOW it’s Leftist Bullshit just like the torture report released by the Democrat Party after the election. They are fighting back trying to make us wish we hadn’t tossed their butts on the street.

I for one am sitting back watching all of it with amusement.


16 posted on 12/22/2014 6:07:44 PM PST by rockinqsranch ((Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.))
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As Dick Cheney said : “I have little respect for the United Nations, or for this individual, who doesn’t have a clue and had absolutely no responsibility for safeguarding this nation and going after the bastards that killed 3,000 Americans on 9/11.”
This, I believes would apply to the NY Times also.


17 posted on 12/22/2014 6:13:53 PM PST by GOJPN
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These people know no shame.

BTW, on another issues, I think all the editorial boards calling for voting rights to non-citizens ought to first give editorial voting rights to non-staff members, specifically FREE REPUBLIC POSTERS.


18 posted on 12/22/2014 6:21:15 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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19 posted on 12/22/2014 6:34:36 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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"Call for Prosecution of 'Torturers,' Including Dick Cheney, George Tenet"

And the reason that this will never happen? Imagine a government system where you prosecute your predecessors. In a two party system it would pretty much guarantee that you, in your turn, would be prosecuted with the only chance of stopping it being to establish a dictatorship. That would have a high % chance of provoking a revolution which you could lose (under the blade of a guillotine!)

20 posted on 12/22/2014 6:34:40 PM PST by I am Richard Brandon
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