Posted on 12/10/2014 10:41:08 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Putting American lives on the line for a political payout
On Tuesday, the Senate Intelligence Committee released the 500-page executive summary of the report on the CIA’s enhanced interrogation of terrorist detainees. Democrats, the media and Republican Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) are using it as an opportunity to hammer the CIA and the Bush administration, while American embassies, military units and other U.S. interests are preparing for possible reprisals. But adding further threats to Americans already in harm’s way matters not. Beleaguered congressional Democrats are desperate for a political boon and have turned to an old standby: sabotaging national security and sacrificing American lives.
Since their betrayal of the Iraq war, Democrats, particularly in the Senate, have panned the techniques used by the CIA to garner critical information in the days following 9/11 as “torture,” and have claimed that they yielded no useful intel. Though the use of these techniques was long known to Democrats—with virtual indifference toward them at the outset—many Democrats have since claimed they were unaware of what was occurring, which explains their lack of opposition to their government supposedly engaging in “torture.”
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Says it all. Traitors. Send them to Gitmo.
What media whores these people are.
ANYTHING for MSM face time!
I wished the CIA would have threatened to cut off fingers for info. I feel nothing to these animals and one bullet in the forehead would be find with me after their usefulness is over. I fought in a war to keep America safe and the hell with these animals. And the hell with the communists Democrats that are nothing better than the same kind of animal.
for those in DC it is no longer about doing the people’s business, it’s about party, power, money and screwing over the people to placate to the ruling elite. It’s time the people clean out the DC cesspool while there’s still a chance.
This last election was a fairly good start; but we didn't get rid of the "co-opters" and fifth columnists in out own party.
But with Boehner and other elites still there, there isn't much hope of change
and with GOPe setting up new rules for primaries and preventing change by upstarts
it doesn't bode well for change without a change of leadership on all sides / all parties.
Support the primary 'upstarts' and 'challengers' to the same old tired leadership and retire them all for practical change.
In the last election , even the independants voted for change !
“Treachery”??? More like sedition by these traitors.
Everyone knows the Arthur Conan Doyle story in which Sherlock Holmes solves a mystery by noting the dog that did not bark.
This report is about the dog that did not bark. We have heard from former Vice President Dick Cheney, retired General and CIA Director Michael Hayden, and CIA officer Rodriguez who oversaw the enhanced interrogation program. But from whom have we not heard? Former General and CIA Director David Petraeus! Remember that Obama fired David Patraeus over an affair he had with one of his military aides and that Patraeus is still under investigation for allegedly passing classified information to the aide. Also remember that General Patraeus was writing a book but stopped writing shortly after he was fired.
This report is as much a preemptive strike on Patraeus as it is on the CIA itself.
While Difiswine and McAinal display their public crocodile tears, their buddies the Islamic Jihadist terrorists kill more and more innocent people.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3236105/posts
Jihadism: Tracking a month of deadly attacks
BBC News ^ | 10 December 2014 | Christine Jeavans, Nassos Stylianou
Posted on 12/11/2014, 7:13:43 AM by Freeport
Jihadist attacks killed more than 5,000 people in just one month, an investigation by the BBC World Service and King’s College London has found.
Civilians bore the brunt of the violence, with more than 2,000 killed in reported jihadist incidents during November 2014. Islamic State carried out the most attacks, adding to the spiralling death toll in Iraq and Syria. Explore the map to find out more.
The data gathered by the BBC found that 5,042 people were killed in 664 jihadist attacks across 14 countries - a daily average of 168 deaths, or seven every hour.
About 80% of the deaths came in just four countries - Iraq, Nigeria, Syria and Afghanistan, according to the study of media and civil society reports.
Iraq was the most dangerous place to be, with 1,770 deaths in 233 attacks, ranging from shootings to suicide bombings.
In Nigeria, 786 people, almost all of them civilians, were killed in 27 Boko Haram incidents. These tended to be large and indiscriminate bombings and shootings such as the attack on the central mosque in the northern city of Kano, which left 120 dead.
Boko Haram also struck over the border in Cameroon, killing 15 people. Meanwhile, in East Africa, al-Shabab took 266 lives in Somalia and Kenya.
Afghanistan suffered almost the same number of deaths as Nigeria (782) but they tended to be in smaller, targeted attacks, such as the shooting of the deputy governor of Kandahar.
In war-ravaged Syria, 693 people were killed; Yemen had 410 deaths in 37 attacks.
Of the 16 jihadist groups involved in the bloodshed, Islamic State was the most deadly, killing 2,206 people across Iraq and Syria - 44% of the total death toll.
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