Oh, BS.
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=54030
Spokesman Cites Pentagon Cooperation in Interrogation Probe
By Gerry J. Gilmore
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 22, 2009 – The Defense Department provided full cooperation during a U.S. Senate committee investigation that examined detainee-interrogation operations, a senior official said here today.
“We fully cooperated with that effort in responding to requests for interviews, as well as documents,” Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told reporters.
The two-year Senate Armed Services Committee investigation centered on examining U.S. interrogation procedures for detainees captured during the war on terrorism. The committee’s report is critical of some interrogation procedures. The report was released yesterday, after a Pentagon review for declassification purposes.
The Pentagon has conducted several internal investigations into detainee interrogation operations over the years, Whitman said.
“Some of the conclusions in the Senate report are duplicate conclusions to the ones that were made by these [Pentagon] investigations,” Whitman said. “But, in those internal investigations, we have not found any policies of the department that ever permitted or condoned abusive treatment of detainees.
“Our policy has been one of treating detainees humanely,” Whitman emphasized.
However, Whitman said, when instances of improper treatment of detainees by military members were discovered, disciplinary action was taken against the perpetrators.
In fact, Whitman said, more than 400 disciplinary actions were taken against personnel found to have abused detainees, including imprisonment, bad-conduct discharges, forfeiture of pay and other punitive actions.
“The department has always taken any allegations of abuse seriously,” Whitman said. “All credible allegations of abuse have been thoroughly investigated, and when individuals have been found to be acting outside of our proscribed policies, they have been found accountable for their actions.”
Numerous internal Pentagon reviews and reports conducted over the years have examined interrogation policies and detainee procedures, Whitman said.
“We’ve had some 14 very-senior-level, comprehensive reports,” Whitman said, “which have covered not only interrogations, but also our detention operations.”
The Defense Department has worked closely with the Senate investigative committee, Whitman reiterated. More than 200 interviews, some of which were more than eight hours in duration, were facilitated between the committee’s staff and current and past Defense Department officials, he said.
“The effort to cooperate with the committee was significant,” Whitman said, noting that the Pentagon had also provided almost 200,000 pages of documents to committee staffers.
Taguba...take your agenda and stuff it.
This article is so poorly written, purposely I would imagine, it’s hard to determine who said what, where and when.
Honestly, at this point, I’d like to see Bush and Cheney put on a show trial. Why? Because it will open the eyes of our feckless Republican politicians and maybe, just maybe, they’ll start playing hardball like our enemies do.
You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom.
You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know: that Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives.
And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives...You don’t want the truth.
Because deep down, in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall.
We use words like honor, code, loyalty...we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use ‘em as a punchline.
I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom I provide, then questions the manner in which I provide it! I’d rather you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand a post.
Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you’re entitled to!
Electrical shocks? BS! Look’s like Soros bought him a retired general!
I’m starting to have visions of a basement in Ekatrinberg.
Its BS, but I have a terrible fear that one way or another, Bush will be murdered by the left.
He’s jonesing for an interview on Hardball with Chris Matthews.
“...the current administration...”? Did he say this Wednesday or back when President Bush was in office? I’m confused.
I wish someone [one of those poor mistreated prisoner/terrorists] would torture that bastard’s ass, then maybe he’d know what torture really is...uh, oh...my bad, after they got thru with him, he wouldn’t know anything, would he?...’cause his head would be separated from his body, laying on the floor between his feet or stuck on a pole somewhere.
does anyone in their right mind think a President can possibly micromanage to that degree? Do they have any idea of why we call the federal government a leviathan? Its enormous.
This site says Taguba is part of Obama for America, Obama’s campaign organization (along with other well known radicals.)
http://www.nndb.com/org/684/000167183/
DG
“Bad company corrupts good morals.”
We slapped around captured rabid insane enemies and made them do no more or less than we do violent aggressive criminals in our own prisons who refuse to comply with their captors.
This trash administration and it’s handlers will be held accountable for their sedition, aiding and abetting those who want to do our nation, it’s non combatants, our republic and our liberty harm.
Doom on em all.....my opinion.
This POS is a traitor as was that chaplain Yee.
McCain said something similar.
>>McCain: Japanese Hanged For Waterboarding
GOP Candidate Says There Should Be “Little Doubt” It Is Torture<<
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Nov. 29, 2007
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/29/politics/main3554687.shtml