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NY Times Editors Call for Prosecution of 'Torturers,' Including Dick Cheney, George Tenet
NewsBusters.org ^ | December 22, 2014 | Randy Hall

Posted on 12/22/2014 5:53:11 PM PST by Kaslin

In an angry editorial published in the Sunday edition of the New York Times, the newspaper's editorial board called on president Barack Obama to “Prosecute Torturers and Their Bosses.”

The list of offenders “in a credible investigation” is a long one, including former vice president Dick Cheney; his chief of staff, David Addington; former CIA director George Tenet; and John Yoo and Jay Bybee, the lawyers for the Office of Legal Counsel who helped draft the documents clearing the way for “enhanced interrogation“ of prisoners and enemy combatants.

In addition, the editors called for charges to be brought against Jose Rodriguez, Jr., the CIA official who ordered the destruction of supposedly incriminating videotapes; the psychologists who devised the “torture regimen;” and the agency employees who carried out those directives.

The board also asserted:

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: bleedingheartattack; davidaddington; dickcheney; georgetenet; interrogation; jaybybee; johnyoo; nyt; presidentgwbush; residentbarak0bama; thenewyorkslimes
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To: Veggie Todd

Remember that granny with the Burper video? (”I’d shoot ‘em in his toodles”?) Hilarious!


21 posted on 12/22/2014 6:37:12 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: Kaslin

Is the NY Times still being published? Why?


22 posted on 12/22/2014 6:38:15 PM PST by Kackikat ('If it talks like a traitor, acts like a traitor, then by God it's a traitor.')
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To: rockinqsranch

The NY Times would rather some guy like Bringley shoot them execution style, so there is no torture, just death. The Jerks at NY Times need to be in unemployment line.


23 posted on 12/22/2014 6:40:48 PM PST by Kackikat ('If it talks like a traitor, acts like a traitor, then by God it's a traitor.')
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Any editor of The Times should be prosecuted also.


24 posted on 12/22/2014 6:55:02 PM PST by ully2
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To: ully2

How about the Castro brothers


25 posted on 12/22/2014 6:55:33 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Kaslin

We need to prosecute those we have in office now


26 posted on 12/22/2014 7:10:42 PM PST by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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To: Kaslin
feh...

27 posted on 12/22/2014 7:19:50 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Kaslin
Attention NY Times:

THIS

...is the only torture *I* care about!

28 posted on 12/22/2014 7:20:58 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Jimmy Carter;No Longer The Worst President In My Lifetime)
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To: Kaslin

If yellow journalism were prosecutable then the NY Times editorial board would be swinging from high trees n


29 posted on 12/22/2014 7:24:11 PM PST by Bullish (He's just NOT presidential material.)
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To: Kaslin

Wherever there is a NYT, you have good soil for a Mayor Wilhelm.


30 posted on 12/22/2014 7:25:22 PM PST by windsorknot
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To: Kaslin

Wouldn’t the president and congressional leaders be culpable too?


31 posted on 12/22/2014 7:40:15 PM PST by Mike Darancette (AGW-e is the climate "Domino Theory")
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To: Kaslin

Does the NYT believe they get to define “torture”?

Being forced to read their dribble ought to qualify.


32 posted on 12/22/2014 8:11:15 PM PST by G Larry (Amnesty imposes SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants & minorities)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Thanks for “The Ten Ways Dick Cheney Can Kill You”. One of the funniest things I’ve seen on F.R.


33 posted on 12/22/2014 8:23:01 PM PST by willk (everyone)
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To: Kaslin

6 years into Obama.

The massive Ferguson political movement has ended after the election

Time for the next of non-stop, successive media/ political movements. This is just an interim one - release “Senate Torture Report,” bring attention to Cheney/Bush.

Deflect, deflect, deflect. Stir, stir, stir. Don’t stop. Constant agitation is the key to leftist governance.


34 posted on 12/22/2014 9:11:20 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Kaslin

More appropriately, the FBI arrests the NYT Editors as domestic terrorists and turns them over to CIA for “rendition” — “torture” according to them. I guarantee they will sing like canaries about lots of things to do with domestic and national security.


35 posted on 12/22/2014 9:14:09 PM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: Kaslin

The next time terrorists strike New York, I think I’ll pour myself a drink, take a bath, like any other day nothing significant happens.


36 posted on 12/22/2014 9:16:19 PM PST by Dogbert41 (All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
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To: Kaslin

The usual inconsequential and irrelevant idiocy from NYT.

How many of these fools would be dead today if not for the strict treatment of America’s enemies.


37 posted on 12/22/2014 9:22:58 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: dontreadthis
I read the title, and in total disgust thought to my self, FU NYT, then broke out in laughter.

My wife, reading next to me, asked why the outburst.

I showed her the title, then the first response.

She out loud wondered if all freepers were on the same wavelength.

38 posted on 12/22/2014 9:28:34 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Cheney cannot possibly be brought to trial.

He is the only man in the country who can run the diabolical BUSH/CHENEY WEATHER CONTROLLER, which sets, as we well know, the rate at which Global Warming is causing the rise of sea levels around the world. Thanks to pressure from Team Obama, the rate has slowed significantly ... but if Dick Cheney gets mad ... who knows?

Of course this would hurt women, children, dark-skinned minorities, and the LGBT community most of all.

39 posted on 12/22/2014 10:00:38 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (The fate of the Republic rests in the hands of the '15 -16 Congress. God help us.)
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To: Kaslin

I would support the execution by firing squad of every last editor of the new york times, for multiple acts of treason.


40 posted on 12/22/2014 10:01:15 PM PST by Newtoidaho
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