And Nancy Pelosi went "ree ree ree" all the way home.
And Nancy Pelosi went "ree ree ree" all the way home.
Posted on 05/08/2009 1:41:44 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Pelosi: I Was Told Interrogation Methods Were Lawful The House speaker's statement came after CIA records showed Pelosi was briefed in September 2002 on the interrogation methods and appeared to contradict her claim last month that she was never told that waterboarding or other enhanced interrogation techniques were being used.
FOXNews.com
Friday, May 08, 2009
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted Friday that she was briefed only once about the "enhanced" interrogation techniques being used on terrorism suspects and that she was assured by lawyers with the CIA and the Department of Justice that the methods were legal.
Pelosi issued a statement after CIA records released this week showed that Pelosi was briefed in September 2002 on the interrogation methods. The briefings memo appeared to contradict the speaker's claims that she was never told that waterboarding or other enhanced interrogation methods were being used.
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Third option: moral.
...All men are endowed from their Creator by certain inalienable Rights...
You either believe your Creed, or you don't.
Do you have some sort of proof that anything obtained in torture couldn't have been retrieved in some other way? I mean, without consulting those who enjoy the job?
The old bag just keeps digging a deeper hole.
This woman is certifiably insane. She needs to be ousted from her job.
This goes too far.
Since you are lecturing on about morality, how does one SOO focused equate a citizen of the USA to that of a un-uniformed enemy combatant?
Un-uniformed enemy combatants have been deemed to be so vile that they do not even fall under the coverage of the Geneva Convention. Would your high minded idealism also then render the Geneva Convention as being immoral?
If you ask me, I find your point that attempts to compare a US Citizen and an un-uniformed enemy combatant (really a psychopathic mass murdering terrorist) to be immoral on its face.
Please spare me the holier than thou attitude, its unbecoming of a true Christian IMO.
Unarmed and bound prisoners, aren't they "needy and innocent"? After all, they can't protect themselves. Combat is over for them. Then there are those who have been fed well, had plenty of rest, and ready to torture them.
Nothing like being able to bend your morality to fit your own needs, right?
Tell that to your muslim friends - they enjoy slitting throats of the Americans.
I can't control the morals and behaviors of others, pasrticularly those who have been dead for some time. For the rest, I can only suggest you will stand before God to answer for your choices.
Was this immoral?
How many people did terrorists torture and what techniques did they use?
Which is the more moral stance?
Torturing a person who has knowledge about blowing up a bus load of school children, because the person will not talk, and saving 40 children, a teacher, and a bus driver.
Or not doing everything you can to get the information and letting them die because you won't use torture?
Odd, I see no one responding to my mention of chemicals that loosen the tongue. Those work without the torture. Am I to assume that our agencies are denied access to these substances, or that torture is the preferred method of enlightenment?
Thank you for your civil reply to me. I am, after all, voicing my moral assessment and hard-earned opinion.
Try again.
Reported by whom? Those that wish to justify the means? Was this PROVEN to work when chemical means failed?
Are you aware that the Constitution actually applies to everyone? Foreigners in our Nation can speak out, own firearms, etc, all the way through the Bill of Rights. You cannot possibly believe that the Founding Principles are only for US citizens? That document is one of the Lights of the World.
You can squirm and avoid the issue all you want, but we're safer because we will go the extra step and the terrorists know it.
If you think it's immoral to save hundreds and thousands of lives while subjecting some suspect to temporray discomfort, I hope you're never in charge of my or my family's safety.
Your position is sanctimonious, not thought out, and unworkable against the fanatics who want to destroy us.
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