9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Posted on 04/17/2009 11:28:06 AM PDT by GOP_Lady
The point of interrogation is intelligence, not confession.
The Obama administration has declassified and released opinions of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) given in 2005 and earlier that analyze the legality of interrogation techniques authorized for use by the CIA. Those techniques were applied only when expressly permitted by the director, and are described in these opinions in detail, along with their limits and the safeguards applied to them.
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9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
aka “The Human Sweater”
He should not be surprised when the terrorists jump on him and do evil things.
Can’t we put 0be in a small box with an SUV to force him to disclose his actual Birth Certificate?
The purpose of interrogation is INTELLIGENCE and NOT Confession!
I have argued this point until I am blue in the face, with several liberals, but they just don’t get it.
I am OK with a law that says we can not use information gained, illegally, for PROSECUTION!
I am also OK with a Jack Bauer type govt. official shooting someone in the foot, and working his way up, in order to find out where a WMD is hidden!!!
What is so hard to understand about the difference in the two situations?
He is abdicating his responsibility to protect America from foreign funded threats.
He instead is focusing his security teams on silencing dissent on domestic issues like gun control (a constitutional right), abortion (a recently identified but not explicitly defined constitutional right), homosexual marriage, socialized medicine, corporate handouts...
He's redefining who is posing a threat. One (legally) challenges his radical liberal agenda. The other seeks to spread the Islamic empire.
So with the retraction of these methods good intelligence has now become far, far less accessible.
This is extremely dangerous as is obvious to anyone who doesn't have their head in the clouds about human nature.
excellent article.
What I don’t understand is WHY no one has asked Obama the Dukakis question??? If Michele and the girls were being held hostage by islamic terrorists, would Obama torture a captive if he thought it would lead to his womenfolk?
This is adeer-in-the-headlights kind of question Rush needs to ask.
There hasn’t been one case of an Amercian citizen saying that the government listened to their phone call and then impinged upon their rights. Yet, the liberals were all up in arms about domestic wire-tapping.
Hussein does not believe or support the War on Terror as it was understood since September 11. In fact, it would not surprise me in the slightest if he was a truther and apologized to the world for the “great hoax and lies of the Bush administration.” Nothing would shock me anymore.
Link to originals?
bttt
Wiertapping is, and has always been allowed as long as a warrant has been issued. I, for one, would like to keep it that way.
Be *VERY* afraid of allowing the government to exceed the powers our founding fathers limited it to; remember just exactly *who* gets to define what a “terrorist” is for the next four or eight years!
You are right. With Bush, I wasn’t worried about my personal freedoms. But now with this knucklehead in office, it’s another story.
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