Posted on 01/02/2005 6:34:47 PM PST by RWR8189
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JAN 02, 2005 21:25:35 ET XXXXX
DEMS CONSIDER TORTURE SHOW 'N TELL AT GONZALES HEARING
**Exclusive**
During upcoming confirmation hearings for Attorney General-nominee Alberto Gonzales, senior Democrats want to screen infamous videotapes showing Iraqis being abused at Abu Ghraib prison, top sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
The curtain is raised Thursday for the Senate Judiciary Committee's showdown with Gonzales.
The Bush White House counsel will be grilled about his role in formulating the administration's legal policies on coercive techniques in interrogations -- techniques some Democrats believe led to outright torture!
Yet it's the grainy prison videos, shot by a soldier's cellphone and never before viewed by the public, that threaten to turn the New Year ugly: A video of a handcuffed prisoner beating his head against a wall; a video of a group of hooded men shown masturbating.
The Pentagon and the White House hold the videos in their possession and have not authorized any public release, including to the senate.
One top Democrat senate source said over the holiday weekend: "Mr. Gonzales should explain to us, to the public if this was policy. I am demanding we move to full disclosure."
Republicans counter showing the videos during the Gonzales hearings would jeopardize evidence in trials of the soldiers involved in the abuse.
Sen. John Warner (R-VA) chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee has said making the videos public might endanger more men and women serving in the armed forces in Iraq.
DEMS DIVIDED
"Normally, I side with disclosure and openness, but in this case, the material is evidence," Sen. Schumer (D-NY) said last year.
Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said the videos should be made public and that they proved to him that there was an organized policy of abusing prisoners to get information -- approved by the White House.
Top Hill insiders explain Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) has not ruled out exploring the abuse at Abu Ghraib with Gonzales in open session. But a well-placed Kennedy source said the Attorney General's confirmation hearings will not be turned into a showdown with the military.
Developing...
Meanwhile, Waxman's babboon-butt face is sneering at our troops. Disgusting, disgusting party. The DUmmies must be proud.
Will Kerry testify as an expert in torture?
The Chairman of the Judiciary Committee needs to rule that the videos can't be shown in the open session. If Arlen Specter allows those videos to be shown, then everything said about him the past few months would have been too mild.
Siren on Drudge? Gotta be Sunday night, the same night as his show airs.
Dueling photos and videos ... I LOVE IT!!!
For every photo of an "tortured" terrorist Gonzales should show a photo of a dead NYPD/NYFD member
For every video of a terrorist being "tortured" session Gonzales should show a video of a WTC jumper ... any video of the pregnant woman's child/fetus bursting from the womb when she impacted the WTC side walk???
BRING IT ON!!!
BRING IT ON!!!
BRING IT ON!!!
Ollie North Congressional Hearings All Over Again
Ollie North Congressional Hearings All Over Again
Ollie North Congressional Hearings All Over Again
Eww. We don't need to see that.
When will the Democrats ever be made to pay for crap like this? Yes, they lose elections. But they are never given the anal exam like Republicans are by the media, etc when they explore the truth behind Democrats.
If Arlen does allow them, I'm going to try my hardest to get him impeached. There are plenty of PA. folks who hate him.
More grandstanding from a bunch that just never learns. Abu Ghraib was an aberration from any policy; what the guidance Gonzales was tasked to provide addressed was the Guantanamo detentions. Some very good questions might be asked by those disturbed about the administration's policies in the latter regard and their formulation, but as usual the Dems are missing the point and going for the sensationalism.
Is there no limit to how far Democrats will go to damage our country for political ends? Never mind - rhetorical.
To prove what? We're monsters too?
Someone needs to remind the Democrats who runs the committees.
A. The terrorists.
Is Hillary going to sing?!
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