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CIA Officers Fear Prosecution Over Questioning: NYT
Reuters ^ | Feb. 26, 2005 | Reuters

Posted on 02/26/2005 9:32:00 PM PST by FairOpinion

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To: FairOpinion

Its not like these guys firebombed a Texas compound killing 83 men, women and children.


21 posted on 02/26/2005 10:06:40 PM PST by Go Gordon
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To: FairOpinion

This is not a matter of the Left being against the troops or the war or for the troops and the war.It all comes down to one thing: An irrational fear by the Left of Bush being successful. The Left feels so powerless that every Bush success is another shot to their solar plexus. And the media is more symbolic of that than anyone.That's why the MSM will use every opportunity, whether its Abu Ghraib, alleged violations by the CIA, or our "difficulties" in Iraq
to cast a negative light on, and make it THE BIG STORY; it's all about taking down Bush.


22 posted on 02/26/2005 10:08:20 PM PST by Zivasmate (" A wise man's heart inclines him to his right, but a fool's heart to his left." - Ecclesiastes 10)
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To: Zivasmate

" it's all about taking down Bush."

I agree completely -- but they are even willing to help the terrorists to destroy the county, their own country, to achieve this. What does this make them?


23 posted on 02/26/2005 10:10:29 PM PST by FairOpinion (It is better to light a candle, than curse the darkness.)
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To: Go Gordon

That was Janet Reno.

Notice the same liberals did not demand accounting from her for that.


24 posted on 02/26/2005 10:11:16 PM PST by FairOpinion (It is better to light a candle, than curse the darkness.)
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To: FairOpinion

It makes them deserving of being charged with treason. They feel so powerless that to them it makes little difference if we win or the terrorists win. Their allegiance is to their own power and influence and they see that diminishing every day.

What every Bush success means to them is that all their doom and gloom forecasts have been dead wrong, and the man who they've trashed for the past 4 years is proving to be right. And their frustration just builds and builds. And the more it builds, the more trash they will write.


25 posted on 02/26/2005 10:17:50 PM PST by Zivasmate (" A wise man's heart inclines him to his right, but a fool's heart to his left." - Ecclesiastes 10)
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To: FairOpinion
CIA [Chiorboys In Action]......... only hire and deal with Ghandi and his disciples, always be politically correct and never panty a prisoner just for the sake of stopping another 911 or worse!!

< /anger >

< /sarcasm >

26 posted on 02/26/2005 10:22:43 PM PST by PISANO (We will not tire......We will not falter.......We will NOT FAIL!!! .........GW Bush [Oct 2001])
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To: FairOpinion
That was Janet Reno. Notice the same liberals did not demand accounting from her for that.

That was my point. That incident got her the nick name shake-n-bake. But other than that, she didn't even get a slap on the wrist. She stood in front of a microphone, and pronounced it was her responsibility. Yet, nothing was done.

27 posted on 02/26/2005 10:26:38 PM PST by Go Gordon
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To: FairOpinion
"We need to decide: are the rights of terrorists more important, than the right to live for thousands of innocent people? You can't coddle terrorists and still expect to be able to obtain vital info, that we need to foil attacks."

Amen...

How much longer are we going to permit the anti-America ACLU to dictate law enforcement AND national security policy to the U.S. Armed Forces and CIA?

This is ridiculous.

28 posted on 02/26/2005 10:36:56 PM PST by F16Fighter
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To: FairOpinion

Agreed.

It's bad enough that they shakle our soldiers fighting the war.

I don't think some people understand just how dangerous a CIA officer's job is. Especially some of the operations teams.

The last thing they need is people putting heat on them to protect the rights of TERRORISTS.

JUST WATCH- They will make political heat and charge some of these guys....and other CIA officers will have to worry about what they can do the get info that stops the KILLING OF 1000s of Americans.

AND THEN CONGRESS WILL BLAME THE CIA FOR NOT STOPPING THE NEXT ATTACK.

IF anybody wants to blame somebody for 9/11.
Blame those folks on the hill in DC. Because they are the ones who hamstring the folks charged with the job of National Security.


29 posted on 02/26/2005 10:49:47 PM PST by ArmyBratproud
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To: ArmyTeach

It is what liberals/and most of the democrat party are about Teach.

They have some jacked up view of a World Govt.

They would give away our Sovereign rights if they could.

They are too stupid to realize all the liberties to do the idiotic stuff they do in the process.

They just don't get it!


30 posted on 02/26/2005 10:55:26 PM PST by ArmyBratproud
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To: Happy2BMe

We have GI's in prison for doing much less than these folks did. Where is the balance point of the scales?


31 posted on 02/26/2005 10:59:34 PM PST by B4Ranch
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To: F16Fighter

You know this thought just came to me...we should pick out some mid level scum bag in the ACLU and do a hatchet job on him/her...expose everything about him/her to the public..dig deep into their closet...show those liberal scum bags just what they are.....and all done under the protection of free speech and the First Amendment that they so furiously defend....


32 posted on 02/27/2005 12:24:01 AM PST by skimask
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To: FairOpinion
There is widening unease within the Central Intelligence Agency over the possibility that career officers could be prosecuted or otherwise punished for their conduct during interrogations and detentions of terrorism suspects, according to current and former government officials.

I can see it now...we're going to outsource our intelligence efforts to India or China.

33 posted on 02/27/2005 1:06:37 AM PST by Robert Lomax
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To: FairOpinion

CURRENT CIA officers aren't worried about this at all. There has been no 'torture' of suspects, regardless of the b.s. the Slimes wants to spew. If they have it, they can show it.

What this is is soon-to-be former and former CIA officers and the Slimes spreading what they can before Porter Goss shuts their leaking traps.


34 posted on 02/27/2005 1:50:24 AM PST by LibertarianInExile (The South will rise again? Hell, we ever get states' rights firmly back in place, the CSA has risen!)
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35 posted on 02/27/2005 2:46:01 AM PST by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: FairOpinion

Well, you can't have it both ways. If you shakle the intel officers, they won't be able to extract information, that we may need to foil an attack,then when we have a devastating attack, everyone will blame the CIA, for not finding out about it and preventing it.

And it will get harder and harder to get people to work for the CIA (or any other agency) as an interrogator (or maybe as anything).

36 posted on 02/27/2005 7:04:03 AM PST by ml1954
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To: FairOpinion

"We need to decide: are the rights of terrorists more important, than the right to live for thousands of innocent people? You can't coddle terrorists and still expect to be able to obtain vital info, that we need to foil attacks."


The extent of liberal naivete never ceases to amaze me. The NY Times has been in an all-out campaign to undermine the War on Terror. There's a child-like yearning for some perfect utopian world that can persist through almost anything. I was struck by how many liberals in Manhattan, in the months after 9/11, soon reverted to the most mindless liberal cliches, bashing President Bush, etc., even though they'd had the most stark reminder possible that they live at "ground zero" in the list of terrorist targets.


37 posted on 02/27/2005 7:30:52 AM PST by Enchante (Kerry's mere nuisances: Marine Barracks '83, WTC '93, Khobar Towers, Embassy Bombs '98, USS Cole!!!)
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To: B4Ranch
It is political. I agree the soldiers who were out of line should have been disciplined severely, but no jail time.

That will come back to haunt us, IMHO. Reenlistment in the Guard and Reserve this time next year will be abysmal.

38 posted on 02/27/2005 7:52:33 AM PST by Happy2BMe (Government is not the solution to our problem, government *IS* the problem.)
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To: Texas_Jarhead
And the leftwing media strikes another blow for the enemies of America.

Does Al Qaida or Hezbollah or other such organizations concern itself with the treatment of their prisoners? Reading articles such as this one must surely lead to pessimism regarding America's war on terror. We must be the good guys in the white trunks that won't "hit below the belt," while our enemies will break off a beer bottle and go right at our face with it. Are we so self-righteous to think that we must show "love" to these barbarians to win their hearts?

Let the military do their job and stay out of their way.

39 posted on 02/27/2005 10:40:58 AM PST by Tfran
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To: PhilDragoo

LOL, BUMP for what you said!


40 posted on 02/27/2005 7:44:35 PM PST by potlatch (Always remember you're unique. Just like everyone else.)
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