Posted on 02/05/2009 3:35:40 PM PST by jessduntno
CIA Pick Panetta: No More Torture, Renditions
Thursday, February 5, 2009 3:41 PM
WASHINGTON — CIA Director nominee Leon Panetta says the Obama administration will not conduct the same kind of "extraordinary rendition" that were allowed under the Bush administration.
Panetta told a Senate committee on Thursday that Obama forbids what Panetta called "that kind of extraordinary rendition — when we send someone for the purpose of torture or actions by another country that violate our human values."
CIA Director Michael Hayden has said that the Bush administration moved secret prisoners between countries for interrogations and imprisonment, separate from the judicial system, fewer than 100 times.
Panetta is testifying to the Senate Intelligence Committee about his plans for the CIA should he be confirmed as its next director.
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Willie Horton style ads are in your future.
The idi”O”t’s administration is turning into an unmitigated disaster at just 2 weeks into it.
I hope the country can survive this pompous fool.
“I hope the country can survive this pompous fool.”
I’m just sick at heart about this...
We will use a kinder, gentler rendition.
“We will use a kinder, gentler rendition.”
Well, hell...W was using a “compassionate” rendition...wtf??? How are these leftist humps so blind...
Would someone please photoshop "Democratic Party" off this?
Geeeeez...I wasn’t expecting the Spanish Inquisition...
Damn these fools to hell.
They really mean it. They will even be so “kind” as to let mass-murdering terrorists loose into the generation public. They don’t care. They are happy as long as they have the political support of two generations of non-thinking adult adolescents.
I’d like to hear those people explain to me how water boarding is torture. It just plays a trick on the brain....nobody gets hurt.
Lake Michigan is paved with the results of their work, as is the Inner Harbor in Baltimore!
Let’s just hope that the next attack is at an ACLU meeting, or the next Democratic Convention.
“I’d like to hear those people explain to me how water boarding is torture. It just plays a trick on the brain....nobody gets hurt.”
I never had it done, but my brother did...he worked for an “agency” in the seventies that sent him to language school and prepared him for travel to exotic lands...said it was ugly, but they all went through it...he was surprised they didn’t come get me for stealing his car and going for a joy ride...he told them everything...
“Let’s just hope that the next attack is at an ACLU meeting, or the next Democratic Convention.”
Nahhhh...they only go after “innocent” bystanders...
“CIA Director nominee Leon Panetta says the Obama administration will not conduct the same kind of “extraordinary rendition” that were allowed under the Bush administration.”
I wonder if former Clinton Chief of Staff Panetta is aware of the fact that extraordinary rendition started under his old boss’s administration (with the enthusiastic support of then Vice-President Gore)?
“I wonder if former Clinton Chief of Staff Panetta is aware of the fact that extraordinary rendition started under his old boss’s administration (with the enthusiastic support of then Vice-President Gore)?”
Probably...note the Clintonian use of the phrase “allowed under the Bush administration.” Makes you think it was a W invention, but gives them cover...
Basically it comes down to effective field interrogation. Ask the 1st prisoner if he knows anything, when he says he knows nothing taking him out and shoot him. Or at least take him out and fire a gun.
Repeat until information is forthcoming from the other prisoners.
So let me guess....somewhere buried in the porkulus bill there’s a massive expenditure for red paint and BO’s gonna put people to work painting giant target across the whole country
Gewt rid of Panetta he’s a crook.
Is that what you advised Bill Clinton when rendition was instituted, Leon?
Waterboarding was a standard part of SERE (Survival Evasion Resistance Escape) training in the late seventies. Not nice, but helpful as a taste of what the bad guys might do.
That is, unless the muzzies just behead the prisoners.
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Message from the Director: Senate Review of CIA Interrogation Program
Statement to Employees by Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Leon E. Panetta on the Senate Review of CIA’s Interrogation Program
March 5, 2009
On a strong bipartisan basis, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence announced today that it will conduct a thorough review of CIA’s terrorist interrogation program. I have discussed this with the Chairman of the committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein, and the Vice Chairman, Senator Kit Bond. They assure me that this review is a way for the committee to assess lessons learned from the program while our government devises a new interrogation policy.
CIA will, as always, cooperate with Congress in its exercise of legitimate oversight. I understand that the intelligence committees have been briefed over the years on terrorist detention and interrogation. The requirement now is to pull that historical information together, as well as information that may not have been provided. As I have said publicly, what I will not support is an inquiry designed to punish those who acted in accord with guidance from the Department of Justice. Senators Feinstein and Bond have made it clear to me that this is not the goal of this review.
CIA is a highly professional, mission-driven organization. Our engagement with the Senate intelligence committee is important. Our work on counter-terrorism is decisive. We will keep our focus right where it belongs—on protecting the American people. The work you do is far too critical to accept anything less. I believe Congress, and the country at large, would agree.
Under this Administration, the guidelines for detention and interrogation have been made clear by the President’s Executive Order: we will adhere to the Army Field Manual for interrogation, close the detention facilities, and abide by the law as it stands. I am confident that, under these guidelines, this great Agency can do its job of defending the strength and safety of the nation. That responsibility is what brings all of us to CIA.
Leon E. Panetta
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