CIA: We stand behind our actions — and the results

Hot Air ^ | 2:45 pm on April 21, 2009 | Ed Morrissey

[saganite]

It must suck to be in the CIA. You either are serving a president you hate and try to tar with a scandal or a president you love who suddenly turns on you. Oh well, under the bus.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

For those that can still catch the Foxnews O'Reilly show today...watch the First 30 minutes for some great stuff on this interrogation issue and the show trials...and the selective release of the memo with important parts blanked out.

Very heated debate with an A**Hat Newsday columnist that refused to accept that it was a good thing to avert the possible tragedies by using harsh interrogation...very heated discussion...followed by Dick Morris describing how the plot on the Brooklyn Bridge was broken using wiretaps and interrogation...

[JimSEA]

They want to get Gonzales so they can compel testimony against Bush and Cheney -- Privilaged communications? Not if they establish a conspiracy to knowingly break the law.

What Bush did was the right thing and hopefully the American people will see it that way but we elected Obama.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See #3....trying to get the word out ...worth watching.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See #3.....trying to get the word out.

[angkor]

Waterboarding is torture.

However.

“We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.” - George Orwell

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

At VMI ( I think ) it is considered hazing...mentioned on the Foxnews O’Reilly segment...see above.

[familyop]

I disagree with initiating torture as a policy. But after the enemy captures and tortures our military personnel, that practice sometimes tends to be answered in kind anyway.

[Dallas59]

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I think in special cases it is very productive.....

[familyop]

And BTW, Obama has not proven any competence in warfighting knowledge or experience with which to criticize others.

[Marine_Uncle]

Thanks E for the heads up.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I think we should build something like the TOWER of London...but not get as harsh as events there were....just do stuff that works....

[BOBTHENAILER]

I saw most of that, but thankfully missed that royal puke ellis pemmican. Can’t stand him.

[familyop]

"I think in special cases it is very productive....."

I do agree with mock executions and telling PWs that a polygraph cuff will blow their arm off (when it won't). Only scaring them is not really torture.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Can you still catch it...?

He had someone on before the Newsday clown...that talked about the selective release of the memo...I missed most of that.

[Darwin Fish]

yo spooks! Release the info on wikkileaks.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Watch the replay if you can....it was HEATED.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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