Posted on 09/21/2006 5:36:16 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Bill Clinton warns against wide torture approval
By Randall Mikkelsen 7 minutes ago
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton joined a chorus of critics of Bush administration proposals for treating suspected terrorists, saying it would be unnecessary and wrong to give broad approval to torture.
In an interview with National Public Radio aired on Thursday, Clinton said any decision to use harsh treatment in interrogating suspects should be subject to court review.
"You don't need blanket advance approval for blanket torture," Clinton said.
Clinton was president during the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and attacks on U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya and on the USS Cole, all linked to al Qaeda. Critics accused him of doing too little to contain a growing threat of terrorism.
Clinton's successor, President George W. Bush, wants Congress to narrowly define prisoner protections under the Geneva Conventions and allow a program of CIA interrogations and detentions that critics have said amount to torture.
The White House denies the program involves torture. The U.S. Supreme Court in June struck down Bush's original plan.
Clinton warned against circumventing international standards on prisoner treatment, citing U.S. abuses at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, criticism of treatment at the Guantanamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists and a secret CIA prison system outside the United States.
"The president says he's just trying to get the rules clear about how far the CIA can go when they're when they whacking these people around in these secret prisons," Clinton said in NPR's "Morning Edition" interview, recorded on Wednesday.
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Hey Bubba, shut the hell up! And enough with this 'torture' meme.
Who the "F" is he to comment of foreign policy, when he basically had none.
ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross says all his CIA agent sources -- a portion of whom opposed controversial interrogation methods on legal or moral grounds -- agreed the methods worked to break all 14 high value Al Qaeda leaders in custody. In some cases Al Qaeda members and plots were revealed, saving lives.
Bubba Boy: Go back to Canada and take care of your new "monica" and leave the situation of the US to a preson who knows what he is doing: President Bush....
According to Common Article III of the Geneva Convention, if you use the Liberals' interpretation of "may not be threatened, insulted or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind", the assault on the dignity of the American people was CLEARLY an assualt on the American People, let alone the Arkancides, Vince Foster-cides, and exposure of "the chillren" to sex-deviate discussions.........
Wow. Wonder what kind of torture was used to get Brian Ross to admit this?!
Clinton.... Clinton...... Where have I heard that name before?
If Clinton degrades public policy debates, isn't that tantamount to torture?
Hey, BillyJeff........... all you need is a blanket to put over your commie wife's head.
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BRIAN = CLARITY
CLINTON = PROPAGANDA
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I wonder if sleeping next to Hillary could be described as "blanket torture." I guess Bill would be the expert on that.
Oh he had a foreign policy... Problem is (was), he had so many (whatever direction the wind/polls blew) it was like having none at all. ;-)
Bill Clinton nor any Democrat ever said anything about the torture that Americans go through when captured. As a matter of fact the Democrats and news media cheer when they learn of an American being tortured or killed by the enemy. Saw it in Vietnam and now so it is the truth.
Ask Juanita Broderick if she thinks Clinton considers rape and biting off a lip as being torture.
He passed an XO allowing for Extreme Rendition.
Hey Clinton, does rape count as torture?
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