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EXCLUSIVE: Obama to close terrorist 'black sites'
washingtontimes.com ^ | January 21, 2009 | Sara A. Carter & Eli Lake

Posted on 01/21/2009 6:04:53 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY

President Obama on Thursday will order the closure of so-called black sites, where CIA and European security services have interrogated terrorist suspects, under executive orders dismantling much of the Bush admistration's architecture for the war on terror, according to four individuals familiar with a draft executive order.

Mr. Obama will shutter "all permanant detention facilities overseas," the draft said, according to the individuals who asked not to be named because the orders have not yet been signed. There are at least eight such prisons, according to published reports. The Bush administration never revealed the number or location of the facilities, although several were said to be in Eastern Europe.

The individuals said there will be three executive orders. One will order the black sites closed and require all interrogations of detainees across the entire U.S. intelligence community to adhere to the U.S. Army Field Manual. The manual specifies a range of interrogation techniques that are not considered torture.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: baby; bho44; bhocia; bhogwot; blacksites; bo; child; childish; cia; democrat; democrats; europe; imissbush; nowaronterror; nowot; obama; terroristscomeondown
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To: Frantzie

Note from email (redacted):

“President-Elect Obama has pledged to raise America’s standing in the world. And the best way to increase good will toward the U.S. is to return to the roots of what makes our country great: welcoming refugees from around the world.

With a sponsorship program, American families could volunteer to host a refugee in their home for a set period of time. With such a program, the U.S. government would retain the right to issue visas, but it would allow individual Americans to directly help refugees.”

Sounds nice and could be benign, but I’m concerned that this type of program could open the doors to an even greater influx of undocumented individuals - and I’m wondering how “refugee” will be defined.


61 posted on 01/21/2009 6:32:58 PM PST by ElayneJ
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To: ronnie raygun

Attacks take various forms. One form may be what happened in 9/11 or in London on 7/7. Another form may be of the more creeping kind. More and more muslims having lots of babies, converting people who are enthralled by the exoticism, import from countries already Islamic and employing Taqiyah (lies are okay if it benefits Islam as a whole),etc. Maybe you can’t call an attack, but they will take over anyway.

I am scared to death. Been there, done that.


62 posted on 01/21/2009 6:33:19 PM PST by bergmeid (2012 - someone please fast forward.)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

“orgive me for saying this but Obama is setting himself up to be the first President to be Impeached for purposely weakening the US to terrorist attacks”

This is cool! That post crossed over from your alternate universe; In ours, the Congress is controlled by the dems in cahoots with turncoat republicans who would never think of such a thing.


63 posted on 01/21/2009 6:33:48 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Been thinking about this...why even mention this is news media? If he does this fine, it’s his prerogative albeit a horrible naive choice, but why advertise to the enemy and sayhey, don’t worry about it, we’ll just tickle you with our feather boas until you talk....sheeesh...


64 posted on 01/21/2009 6:33:52 PM PST by phatus maximus ( John 6:29. Learn it, love it, live it.)
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To: bergmeid

“This is hard to believe.”

OPINION:

Eli Lake is a good reporter.


65 posted on 01/21/2009 6:34:18 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Rebelbase

Dems won’t be able to when the terrorists blow up the Capitol Building.


66 posted on 01/21/2009 6:35:17 PM PST by MAD-AS-HELL (How does one win over terrorists? KILL them with UNKINDNESS)
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To: phatus maximus

“why even mention this is news media?”

OPINION:

That’s a good question.

Maybe testing the political waters, a deliberate leak, an unintended leak, or something else.


67 posted on 01/21/2009 6:36:01 PM PST by Cindy
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To: ElayneJ

It is not going to be benign. It is part of their plan. They will get ACORN to get them all voting cards and voite Democrat.

We have 25 million illegals bankrupting the country. California is bankrupt. They bailing out this and that. It cannot last. This is all part of the plan.


69 posted on 01/21/2009 6:36:41 PM PST by Frantzie
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To: Free ThinkerNY
"Black Sites" closed?
Okay, lets burn down the terrorists planning centers here in America.

ooops, did I just call for burning down mosques?

70 posted on 01/21/2009 6:36:50 PM PST by Michael Barnes
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To: Free ThinkerNY
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71 posted on 01/21/2009 6:36:50 PM PST by mojitojoe ( A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

[Forgive me for saying this but Obama is setting himself up to be the first President to be Impeached for purposely weakening the US to terrorist attacks]

The problem is that Obama thinks he can leave a vacuum wherever he goes and it will somehow NOT be filled with evil people. Iraq pullout may cost half a million dead. Closing Gitmo and the CIA will cause American deaths.

Setting himself up indeed.


72 posted on 01/21/2009 6:38:42 PM PST by FastCoyote (I am intolerant of the intolerable.)
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To: DesertRhino

Yes,I know what you meant.

I just feel very uncomfortable about him having his whole family in the W.H. I don’t know why. One of those awful premonitions I get now and then.

Maybe I’m remembering “Camelot”—the golden couple, their beautiful kids, everything perfect—and then the awful tragedy.

Guess I’ve seen too many Greek tragedies happen in too many lives. (I am very old, and have seen a lot.)


73 posted on 01/21/2009 6:40:08 PM PST by Palladin (Kudos to Chesley Sullenberger: a true American hero!)
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To: MAD-AS-HELL

Who the hell is going to impeach him/ He is surrounded by all his buddies.


74 posted on 01/21/2009 6:40:09 PM PST by diamond6 (Is SIDS preventable? www.Stopsidsnow.com)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
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We'll all live to regret giving this f**king idiot the keys to the box of secrets.

75 posted on 01/21/2009 6:41:32 PM PST by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash?)
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To: Palladin
It's become my fear that the next US terror attack will be a simultaneous attack on scores of schools across the US. Remember the hostage situation in Beslan in 2004? Over 1,000 people killed. I believe it was a test run for the next horror. To your point, why would the school of the people you reference be safer than any other school?

It likely wouldn't be. And what more powerful wedge to end the US policy of non-negotiation?

76 posted on 01/21/2009 6:42:03 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze
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To: diamond6

If there is a big enough attack and Americans are pissed, believe me Douchebagocrats will turn on him faster than Ted Kennedy dropping to the floor due to a seizure.


77 posted on 01/21/2009 6:42:20 PM PST by MAD-AS-HELL (How does one win over terrorists? KILL them with UNKINDNESS)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Boy oh boy, karma is a b*tch. The people Hussein is going to release are going to head *right* for American cities. Right to the Obama Voter Nests.

Hiroshima, Mon Ami.

78 posted on 01/21/2009 6:42:20 PM PST by Starfleet Command
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Granny Panties Foreign Policy!

Hussein shows terrorists he will treat them like a kindly old lady...he ignores the terror experienced by America on 9/11. It is forgotten.

79 posted on 01/21/2009 6:42:27 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If we are nice to them, they will quit hating us.

Visualize whirled peas...


80 posted on 01/21/2009 6:43:19 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I can't wait for January 20, 2013")
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