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Senate to investigate CIA's actions under Bush
Los Angeles Times ^ | 6:31 PM PST, February 26, 2009 | By Greg Miller

Posted on 02/26/2009 7:15:12 PM PST by granite

The Senate Intelligence Committee is preparing to launch an investigation of the CIA's detention and interrogation programs under President Bush, setting the stage for a sweeping examination of some of most secretive and controversial operations in recent agency history.

The probe is aimed at uncovering new information on the origins of the programs as well as scrutinizing how they were executed -- from the conditions at clandestine CIA prison sites to the interrogation regimens used to break Al Qaeda prisoners, according to Senate aides familiar with the inquiry plans.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; alqaeda; bush; cia; dopeydems; hateamerica; leaky; probe; senleahy; wot
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"The 'fact-finding' effort will seek details on secret prisons and interrogation methods -- but will not aim to determine if CIA officials broke laws, legislative sources say."
1 posted on 02/26/2009 7:15:13 PM PST by granite
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To: granite
Senate Intelligence

The Mother of All Oxymorons.

2 posted on 02/26/2009 7:16:18 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Just being a "U.S. citizen" does not make one an American.)
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To: granite

You mean all the things that Obama confirmed will remain in place?


3 posted on 02/26/2009 7:16:56 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
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To: granite

Keep them busy doing absolutely nothing please! This works just fine.


4 posted on 02/26/2009 7:18:07 PM PST by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

LMAO Isn’t that the truth??


5 posted on 02/26/2009 7:18:28 PM PST by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: granite

If we thought it was tough to get recruits over the “the farm” before....


6 posted on 02/26/2009 7:18:59 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: granite

7 posted on 02/26/2009 7:19:04 PM PST by Bratch
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To: Danae
Keep them busy doing absolutely nothing please! This works just fine.

Lord, when do these a-holes go on their next recess (so we know our property is temporarily safe).

8 posted on 02/26/2009 7:21:01 PM PST by Marathoner (The dream: 1-20-2013, hearing "I, Sarah Heath Palin, do solemnly swear...")
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To: granite

How many Billions of wasted taxpayer money will this cost?

and how is this stimulative?


9 posted on 02/26/2009 7:22:47 PM PST by tomnbeverly (Taxpayers doing time on the Obama Plantation.)
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To: granite

The Senate Intelligence Committee is well known for getting our contacts killed.


10 posted on 02/26/2009 7:24:03 PM PST by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: Danae
Or, they've literally spent all of the money and will now start imprisoning political opponents.
11 posted on 02/26/2009 7:24:50 PM PST by Carling ("We've lost two people in my family because you dickheads won't cut trees down," - Warwick Spooner)
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To: granite

Wow. The dems investigating Bush policies after they said they wouldn’t? This IS a shock!


12 posted on 02/26/2009 7:25:28 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Hope you're happy with your "send a message to the RNC" vote)
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To: granite

Imagine were this to have happened during WWII or Vietnam.


13 posted on 02/26/2009 7:27:09 PM PST by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a U.S. Army Infantry Soldier presently instructing at Ft. Benning.)
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To: granite

I suspect they’ll be trying to figure out which high ranking officials to remove and replace.


14 posted on 02/26/2009 7:27:33 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: granite

The only thing Bush did wrong was to fail to rein in the politicized, leaking CIA. They have it all backwards. In a normal world, Valerie Plame’s husband, the NYT, Congress, and members of the State and CIA would be in the dock for treasonous actions.


15 posted on 02/26/2009 7:29:43 PM PST by madameguinot (Our Father's God to Thee, Author of Liberty)
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To: Danae
Problem is the committee will release information if it is damaging to the previous administration and/or secret methods and practices that the general public doesn't need to know, much less the enemy.

It also gives a forum for LEAKS and BOGUS information released by the MSM from anonymous sources!!

A political witch hunt with the tragic effect of costing lives in the long run!

The Democrats are pathetic!

16 posted on 02/26/2009 7:29:48 PM PST by PISANO
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I can’t argue that. But it’s not as if they can do any damage to the previous administration. It amounts to name calling, which is what they whine every time we bring up Jimmah Carter’s CRA of 1977 and our current financial meltdown. But I forget myself, Irresponsibility is a Democrat’s JOB.


17 posted on 02/26/2009 7:31:49 PM PST by Danae (Amerikan Unity My Ass)
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To: granite

I want Senate investigation of Chris Dodd and Barney Frank under Bush.
we got YouTube videos of Barney but we don’t have an Inestigation of the housing Sub prime Crisis !
I want some Flogging and Cane hits, I want some INVESTIGATIONS NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


18 posted on 02/26/2009 7:32:48 PM PST by 4Speed
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To: granite
“The ‘fact-finding’ effort”
Is to see if there are any secrets they can leak to our enemies that might be useful to them. In exchange for campaign funds, of course. Congress - public enemy number one.
19 posted on 02/26/2009 7:33:17 PM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 116)
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To: Thrownatbirth
he Senate Intelligence Committee is well known for getting our contacts killed.

Courtesy of Senator Leahey! If my memory serves me correctly it was the Station Chief in Atherns.

20 posted on 02/26/2009 7:35:48 PM PST by cpdiii (roughneck, oilfield trash and proud of it, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, iconoclast.)
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