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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this is getting funnier by the hour!
So, I guess it's settled Obama supports the Bush use of water boarding, right?
SOOO, how’d you like to have to wake up to this lying Pelosi bitch every morning?
In short, you were told that the methods you were never told about and that we weren’t using at the time, were legal, when now you say they weren’t legal, although it didn’t really matter ‘cause you were never told about them and were told that we weren’t using them in the first place. A simple explanation, Frisco style!
Well, she’s been whupping his skinny little backside on Capitol Hill for the past 100+ days. That’s reason enough for any dedicated narcissist.
CA....
Demjanjuk is far older and more succeptable to injury from interrogation than twentysomethings and thirtysomethings on the field of battle.
I also don’t think that we should have put up obstacles to the investigation of Demjanjuk. I also don’t know why they would need interogration techniques on him at this point. Aren’t there records and witnesses and other evidence to present at trial? Wouldn’t that be the case? Or did they want to make him admit it?
In my humble opinion, therein lies the shame.
I was taught by the US Army that the United States does not mistreat prisoners. Period. Uncouth individuals will do so, but it will never be policy.
Mistreatment of captives is immoral, reprehensible, and cowardly.
Now I expect the deluge of "anything is OK as long as you find out something we need to know." I stand the high ground, nevertheless.
During the Nuremberg Trials, we insisted that "orders" was no excuse for inhumane behavior. It should have remained that way.
Pelosi: I Was Told Interrogation Methods Were Lawful
You were also told by your Church that abortion is murder,but that has not stopped you from voicing your own opinion and even pushing it on Americans.
But now you expect us to beleive that because of couple of lawyers acting for the BUSH administration said something was legal and you just accepted it and went with it??????
Democrat - “enhanced” interrogation techniques
Republican - torture.
How many times do you have to hear, to hear?
I only said, “I do” once, but I’m still married after 23 tears...
- Torture
- Criminal (anything and everything W)
- Hate (fill in your issue of choice)
- Environment Destroying
- Bigoted/Anti-Immigrant/Nazi
Torture appears to now be the new incendiary descriptive word of choice.
Whether of not that is what it actually is - is completely immaterial.
then what are you trying to prosecute people for????
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
THAT is hilarious!! That is EXACTLY what Bush said!LOL!!
That is gold! Gold, I say...
‘appeared to contradict’
They should her to be an pathological liar that thought she couldn’t be caught.
Hey Nancy...when you find yourself in a hole, you should stop digging.
ACLU is pulling all of these idiots strings!.....
should should be showed. /Doh!
What is mistreatment? Sleep deprivation? Psy ops?
Our government used them against David Koresh for 40 days (grinding up graves with a tank, playing the amplified sound of rabbits being skinned alive, playing “These Boots Are Made For Walking... One Of These Days These Boots Are Gonna Walk All Over You”.
They have recordings from their bugging system. They knew he was suicidal. Whether they lit the flame or drove him to it deliberately, the outcome was the same.
But the Left didn’t speak out about that. Not to the degree that they have condemned waterboarding.
Police departments use coerrcive interrogation techniques too. But I guess that’s okay since we don’t hear those being discussed as horrible either. And that’s more to obtain an “admission” for plea bargain and conviction rather than any matter dealing with interests of national security (investigations that extend beyond a single individual).
Congress is the law -- dipnit!
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