Intel firestorm: GOP reveals briefing info

The Hill ^ | June 4, 2009 | Jared Allen

[tobyhill]

“As the chairman my view is we need to get the facts about how the enhanced interrogation techniques came about, not just the results.”

That pretty much admits there was positive results from the interrogations.

[TennTuxedo]

Lets see what is wrong with this picture.....

The Democrats release a list of top secret U.S. nuclear sites and are okay with it, but are mad at the GOP for releasing intelligence information that supports what most have known all along, that our use of water-boarding was effective. We got information that saved lives from it and they want to hide it.

[jazusamo]

That pretty much admits there was positive results from the interrogations.

It sure does and the RATS or the media are not going to be able to spin their way out of this.

[Wiseghy]

This can't be so! The MSM has been pushing the “FBI” line for years that “torch-er” doesn't work, ever, nada, zip, null set, zero.

In fact, FBI experts on the MSM say it is always totally ineffective compared to merely lying to suspects, tricking them, wearing them down, threatening & terrifying them and of course intimidating them, which is, ya know, so much more “humane”.

Seems that “old way”, the way that nearly the entire planet does it, except us, says it works pretty well and that it's documented as having saved many lives and lots of treasure.

Guess the MSM and Dems will have to bury that one in a hurry.

[Mamzelle]

Hey, way to go, Pubs. When they lie to the public, they shouldn't be able to count on repubs to hold their silence.

Well-played. Keep 'em on dee-fence.

[hoosiermama]

Nan should start packing her bags.

[patriot preacher]

Uh-huh — took away their talking point did they? See, Republicans CAN accidentally stumble across doing the RIGHT thing once in a while...

[STARWISE]

And get off our big jumbo jet. Go home and cook pasta, Nancy.

[LTCJ]

Each paragraph in a classified document carries its own classification at a level up to but frequently lower than that of the overall document. I'd be willing to bet dollars to donuts that either 1) the section containing this information was overclassified, or 2) it was marked(U) and there was no harm no foul. In and of itself, this information causes no damage to national security.

[jazusamo]

That sounds reasonable and plausible, I agree.

Thanks for your post!

[okie01]

In and of itself, this information causes no damage to national security.

Only to the Democrats. And Nancy Pelosi.

But, in Obama's America, that may be a more serious crime than treason...

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Any wonder who our enemy is any more?

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Schakowsky is a red and Reyes is an idiot. What do you expect from this twin threat to American?

[RasterMaster]

The DUmocrats leak as a “come-and-get-it...Ooops” CLASSIFIED LOCATIONS OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL and release the interrogation methods to our enemies and yet still have the gall to gripe about the truth that all with eyes to see and ears to hear already know???

When the JACKA$$E$ release the memos that CHENEY requested to show that the techniques are effective and have proven to save American lives, then nobody in the whole world will be able to deny that it was the right path to follow and worked against our enemies, of whom the DUmocrats have been doing their upmost to assist in killing us all.

[RasterMaster]

"Let the Media try to spin an open meeting that will be shown on YouTube and live on CSpan."

I want my FReeper TV!

[Zhang Fei]

The Democrats release a list of top secret U.S. nuclear sites and are okay with it, but are mad at the GOP for releasing intelligence information that supports what most have known all along, that our use of water-boarding was effective.

I wouldn't call this "intelligence information" - the only thing GOP members disclosed was that torture has gotten us useful information. This particular nugget is no secret - it is something humanity has known since interrogation was invented. Al Qaeda knows it; the majority of Americans know it - it's only the tiny minority of people who happen to be Democratic Congressmen who don't know it.

[Titus-Maximus]

Can someone send this over to the mamaluke Jesse Ventura? Now that the evidence is coming in as the Dems try to spike it for political purposes.

[Luke21]

It was always noble according to the media, when Leahy and Metzenbaum leaked stuff.

[SunkenCiv]

Gosh, that is bad.

• Gov't posts sensitive list of US nuclear sites
• U.S. Releases Secret List of Nuclear Sites Accidentally - Screw Ups Happen!
• Government accidentally posted list of US nuclear sites on the Internet
• Obama releases details of our nuke sites
• 'Embarrassing' mistake puts US nuke list online
• Barry has the nuke codes, but no security clearence
• Investigation finds U.S. military hardware easy to buy, ship

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Nice list...