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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Chemicals can be effective...but they don't always work.
Besides which, how do you know that every conceivable method of enhanced interrogation wasn't tried before employing the waterboarding. It almost certainly was -- since, under the circumstances, nobody was inclined to leave a stone unturned.
They weren't playing "torture" -- as you assert. They were conducting serious, important...and critical...interrogations.
Frankly, your position on this torture issue is a moral enigma, inside a twisted logic...and shrouded by absurdity.
Helen Thomas pix are torture. Pelosi is just harsh tactics. LOL.
Amen!
Has it occurred to you that these interrogations were of belligerent foreigners captured on the battlefield and took place in Guantanamo?
Hardly the same thing.
In a "live situation", I would employ just about anything to save innocent people. I'd feel like shit afterwards; and, I'd wouldn't make a career out of the practice. In a situation where someone has been in captivity well past his "battlefield knowledge", I would not.
I was a soldier, and even to this day I take my Oath very seriously. (Even though I'm pretty far over the hill.) I do have to balance all of that with my understanding of God's preferences. I suspect there are those who enjoy mistreating others. We even have plenty of bad cops to go around. I'm sure there are turds in other places.
I suspect morality has no boundry lines, neither for the point of capture or the application of the torture. My understanding is that God permates the whole place, and can see it all.
Not quite the right distinction. When a conservative posts their pix it is torture. When a liberal posts their pix it is only a harsh tactic. When you understand the meaning of this, grazzhoppa, you will know what tortured (ie liberal) logic is. ;^)
I have no Muslim friends. They should be engaged on the battlefield and exterminated, fair and square. ;-D
I know you won't understand this with your mindset: Someone who is bound, hooded, and held by well-rested and unfettered men in not a threat. As such, they should not be subjected to abuse.
But it is only the law within the United States and some places under its jurisdiction.
You embrace brutal behavior toward fettered and hooded men, and I have the "evil problem"? I have a very simple solution: Quit coddling the enemy and kill them on the battlefield. Let no vermin escape to come near our children.
Ah, but the Founding Principles are universal. I hold to principle, not law.
Beating a man does him temporary harm and leaves him able to still repent. Killing a man is a permanent harm to him and prevents any chance that he might repent.
The principle you stand on is utterly evil.
It seems to be in Muslim countries, mainly in the Middle East. Have you been napping?
To those who actually believe in the afterlife, death is merely a change of lifestyle.
Nonsense. Christian philosophy doesn't believe in that and neither do I.
I'm not certain that Christians know what they are talking about. I tend to subscribe to the reincarnation concepts along with Karmic entanglements.
This place just has to be a "prison planet". We're all too mean to be regular citizens, arn't we?
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