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Obama: 'We Tortured Some Folks' [Go Tell That To Daniel Pearl's Family]
LATimes ^
| August 1, 2014
| KATHLEEN HENNESSEY
Posted on 08/01/2014 5:41:13 PM PDT by Steelfish
Obama: 'We Tortured Some Folks'
By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY In startlingly blunt phrasing, President Obama on Friday acknowledged the CIAs use of brutal interrogation tactics in the years after the Sept. 11 attack, even as he defended the agencys top spy, who is a veteran of the era.
We tortured some folks, Obama said to reporters during a news conference Friday. We did some things that were contrary to our values.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: counterterrorism; september12era
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To: Chgogal
Shows the power of the evil US media.
During Bush: created “outrage” over Abu Ghraib (underwear on head) and Gitmo (waterboarding).
During Baraq: cheered on dozens of deadly drone attacks
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:00:55 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Toxic Baraq Syndrome: hopefully infecting a Dem candidate near you)
To: Steelfish
Yo, B.O., whine for me sissy-boy.
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:01:46 PM PDT
by
Amagi
(Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
To: Amagi
Might want to listen ... Amagi.
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:03:39 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: Dilbert San Diego
One of Alinskys rules for radicals is that you make your enemies live up to their own standards, otherwise you call them out for their hypocrisy. This has been SOP for the left even if they never read Rules for Radicals.
Manipulative POSs inuitively pull this cr@p, looking for ways to accuse while normal, lawful people are content to go about their days in peace.
These people calculate 24/7, all for evil intent. How pathetic is that? Insecure sickos on power trips. Explains where the modern crop of LEOs is coming from.
Like the badge-rage LEOs, this POSOTUS isn't one of us. Cast out the bondwoman and her son...
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:04:41 PM PDT
by
Ezekiel
(All who mourn the destruction of America merit the celebration of her rebirth.)
To: JoeProBono
Maginot?
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:05:18 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: Steelfish
FUBO!!! YOU are contrary to our values! You’re just another lyin’ muslim POS.
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:08:19 PM PDT
by
LibWhacker
(A New WPA: Hire blacks to surround illegal enclaves and round up job-stealing illegal aliens)
To: Steelfish
President Barack O’Bozo has been torturing the entire country for 5 1/2 years.
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:08:41 PM PDT
by
Iron Munro
(IRONY)
To: LibWhacker; All
Why on earth would he open his mouth & admit anything? Friggin traitor.
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:12:08 PM PDT
by
PenguinM
To: morphing libertarian
I suspect those weren’t bribes, it was just a means for Obama to fund our enemies.
To: Steelfish
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:20:26 PM PDT
by
clintonh8r
(It's possible to love your country and hate your government. I'm proof of it.)
To: Steelfish
The torture began January 20, 2009.
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:21:21 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Sometimes you need more than seven rounds, Much more.)
To: Sarah Barracuda
McCain and the Gay Kenyan, two flies on the same pile of Sh!t.
Waterboarding is Not Torture!
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:26:27 PM PDT
by
wetgundog
(" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
To: Steelfish
Paul Johnson
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:26:55 PM PDT
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: wetgundog
yep, if it saves Americans lives they hate you ... Bet you do not care if they hate you, cause neither do I. Rock 'em and we'll roll as at 911.
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:30:13 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
To: Steelfish
If so, why is Obama continuing to use Rendition of prisoners to other countries Clinton and Bush did? Why is Garcia Vega still used as a Rendition station?
www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/renditions-continue
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:34:56 PM PDT
by
Doc91678
(Doc91678)
To: Jet Jaguar; All
Hey OBummer!
1) What you mean "we" Kemosabe?
2) If water-boarding is torture, then just about every Soldier, Sailor, Marine or Airman who has made it through Special Ops training has a cause of action to lay before the World Court.
Please indulge me if I post what may seem to be a slightly off-topic question.
Why should we beat our collective breasts over a few terrorists who were subjected to intense interrogation techniques - not torture - but intense interrogation - and at the same time express no concern for the subjection of our own troops - volunteers - citizen soldiers - patriots - who freely go into harm's way to secure Freedom for people in far-off countries - and are constrained to operate under the most draconian ROE's ever imposed on our Armed Forces?
I thank the Lord for our men and women who go into combat for us day in and day out, as I thank the Lord for the agents, both military and civilian, who extract vital intelligence from recalcitrant detainees.
They save lives every day. Their service and sacrifice keeps us safe.
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America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi! |
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O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.
Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:40:51 PM PDT
by
ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in Battle!)
To: Steelfish
Since he’s so good at pointing the finger at other leaders, how’s he doing in Iraq and Iran or anywhere else? Bush was a master compared to this Bozo.
Pray America wakes up
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:42:05 PM PDT
by
bray
(Palin/Bibi 2016)
Two zzzs/// or Royal Flush?
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:42:12 PM PDT
by
no-to-illegals
(Scrutinize our government and Secure the Blessing of Freedom and Justice)
Comment #39 Removed by Moderator
To: Steelfish
Obama frames terrorists as “folks” as if they stepped out of a Norman Rockwell print. FUBO!
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posted on
08/01/2014 6:56:36 PM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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