Posted on 08/01/2014 1:55:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Barack Obama was halfway out the door, joking with his counterparts in the press that he had not yet been wished a happy birthday, when a chorus of uniform questions from the assembled reporters forced him to address the recent admission that CIA Director John Brennan’s intelligence agency had improperly spied on the Senate.
On Thursday, the CIA admitted that intelligence operatives tapped into computers linked to staffers with the Senate Intelligence Committee in March. Those computers contained documents pertaining to an ongoing investigation into the agency’s Bush-era enhanced interrogation techniques.
The report, which is set to be declassified, already has human rights activists expressing frustration over the fact that it reportedly refused to call the tactics CIA operatives engaged in “torture.” The Daily Beat’s Josh Rogin and Eli Lake explained why: “[T]he report will not accuse the CIA outright of ‘torture,’ an accusation that could have political, diplomatic, legal, and even criminal implications,” their dispatch read.
They noted that a secret version of the Senate report has already been seen by key officials, but a declassified version will likely leak out almost immediately after it begins circulating around Washington.
The president chose not to wait and, amid a response to the serious allegation that the CIA spied on Congress while the agency was being investigated, declared that the United States of America “tortured some folks.”
“We did some things that were contrary to our values,” the president added.
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He had the ask for the question....I believe the dope with the question forgot to ask it when it was supposed to be asked.
“We did some things that were contrary to our values,” the president added.
Preparing to preserve our posterity is contrary to
HIS values, how dare WE???
Maybe they wuz jus hatin' all the time. Or maybe they were treatin him like a dog.
POS. He is torture to American values and our Republic.
Those on FR who agree with Barry that the CIA “tortured” prisoners should note that not even the Democrat Senate agrees with them.
Obama is evil........
Just another idiot statement from our Idiot-In-Charge...
Obama overrules Senate, declares CIA’s Bush-era tactics ‘torture’
why say this now ? Is something about to hit the News about Obama Admin ?
“We did some things that were contrary to our values,” the president added.
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... And, under his breath and not audible to the surrounding reporters, the President muttered: “And we can surely exploit this news by blaming Bush which should drum up a few more votes for our side in November”.
No Osama, YOU have done things contrary to our values. Did I say Osama? Close enough.
The worst of the so-called tortures were somewhere between a fraternity hazing and a facet of special forces training.
Pronoun abuse ought to be grounds for impeachment.
“We did some things that were contrary to our values,” the president added.
Like murder 3 American citizens without process of law? Obama has killed as many American citizens (3) without due process of law as GWB waterboarded.
Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta: Lawsuit Challenging Targeted Killings
https://www.aclu.org/national-security/al-aulaqi-v-panetta
The Drone That Killed My Grandson
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/18/opinion/the-drone-that-killed-my-grandson.html?_r=1&;
So what?
Including our own troops who undergo water-boarding as part of training.
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