Deep In The Memory Hole: Top Dems Knew Of Waterboarding
Flashback time, for all those who are pitching hissy fits over the recently released CIA memo’s on “torture”
In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA’s overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.
Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.
“The briefer was specifically asked if the methods were tough enough,” said a U.S. official who witnessed the exchange.
“In fairness, the environment was different then because we were closer to Sept. 11 and people were still in a panic,” said one U.S. official present during the early briefings. “But there was no objecting, no hand-wringing. The attitude was, ‘We don’t care what you do to those guys as long as you get the information you need to protect the American people.’ “
Of course, even back then, so many in the Progressive movement still had a 9/10 mentality, and wanted to treat jihadis with kid gloves.
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Posted by William Teach on April 20, 2009 5:10 pm
» Filed Under Democrats, Hypocrisy/Situational Ethics, Nancy Pelosi, National Security, News, Politics As Usual, War On Terror, terrorism
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Waterboarding?
If the tables had been reversed, this 7th-century savage KS Mohammed would have been chopping our heads off while making a video of it.
Water boarding is not a near-drowning technique… the subject is never in danger of drowning. And water boarding is not torture… there is no physical harm to the subject.
Kahlid Sheikh Mohammed is a bad guy, and US interrigators obtained valuable info from him using this technique- who cares how many times it took? It was up to him how long before he decided to cooperate, didn’t have to be this way necessarily- apparently he clung stubbornly to a bad decision.
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Democrat Congresspeople look like they have been water-logged.
Does anyone care what their secret plans are?