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Obama: U.S. 'crossed a line' and tortured after 9/11 attacks
CNN ^ | Aug 1, 2014 | Ray Sanchez, CNN

Posted on 08/02/2014 11:29:55 AM PDT by Innovative

"When we engaged in some of these enhanced interrogation techniques, techniques that I believe and I think any fair-minded person would believe were torture, we crossed a line," Obama said. "And that needs to be ... understood and accepted. And we have to, as a country, take responsibility for that so that hopefully we don't do it again in the future."

In the remarks, Obama was referring to a soon-to-be-released Senate Intelligence Committee report detailing the CIA's controversial interrogation and detention program following the 9/11 attacks.

The document is a nearly 700 page summary of the full 6,800 page report that was approved a year and a half ago by a committee sharply divided along party lines.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; interrogation; obama; terrorism; terrorists
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Translation: We mustn't use enhanced interrogation techniques on these darling radical Muslim terrorists, better to have them nuke some US city and have millions of US citizens die, rather than hurt a hair on their cute little terrorist heads.
1 posted on 08/02/2014 11:29:55 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

Also in the article:

“In January 2009, President Obama issued an executive order disavowing torture and established a Special Task Force on Interrogation and Transfer Policies. Details of those findings have never been made public.”

I find this quite interesting...


2 posted on 08/02/2014 11:31:02 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

The fool should shut his mouth.


3 posted on 08/02/2014 11:31:25 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Innovative

Lighten up Barry. Nobody shives a git what you think anymore. Even the commie libs ‘RATS are getting tired of all of your bull****. Your 15 minutes are winding down quickly.


4 posted on 08/02/2014 11:32:12 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp! It is my home!!!)
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To: Innovative

muzzie terrorists crossed the line and killed 3000 innocent Americans.

I would have preferred to have tortured the muzzies a lot worse than we did.


5 posted on 08/02/2014 11:32:16 AM PDT by boycott
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

The fool should have shut up years ago.The spew continues.


6 posted on 08/02/2014 11:33:07 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Innovative

He really loathes this country, which he purports to “lead.”


7 posted on 08/02/2014 11:33:12 AM PDT by Salvey
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I have been severally tortured by the government since January 2009. I would rather have been waterboarded.


8 posted on 08/02/2014 11:33:37 AM PDT by inpajamas (http://outskirtspress.com/ONE)
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he decries the torturing of terrorists who want to harm America yet he is an accessory to the criminal targeting of taxpaying Americans by his IRS...POS, not POTUS


9 posted on 08/02/2014 11:34:06 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

He is no fool. He is destroying America from within on purpose and a majority of your fellow voting Americans helped.


10 posted on 08/02/2014 11:34:07 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Innovative

Don’t speak for the United States Hussein, you are not even part of us you Indonesian muzzie.


11 posted on 08/02/2014 11:34:14 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: boycott

When you are constrained by the “ROE” and the enemy is not, you just might not make it out alive. Kind of like bad guys carry weapons but law abiding citizens in a lot of places are forbidden to do so. Kinda bass ackwards ain’t it?


12 posted on 08/02/2014 11:34:31 AM PDT by rktman (Ethnicity: Nascarian. Race: Daytonafivehundrian)
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To: Innovative
To hard on Islam? Hussain Obama? F-YOU!


13 posted on 08/02/2014 11:35:00 AM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: Innovative

So 3 terrorists were water boarded and most of the Special Forces, Seals and such are water boarded in their training.


14 posted on 08/02/2014 11:36:34 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Innovative

0bama has crossed all sorts of lines, including the Rubico.


15 posted on 08/02/2014 11:36:47 AM PDT by Paladin2
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Ok Barry so what’s worse our techniques or filming a video prior to cutting off the persons head. Then distributing it so the family has to suffer.

Also, these individuals aren’t “ folks” they are hardened killers....


16 posted on 08/02/2014 11:36:51 AM PDT by patriotspride
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I thought Obama said , We Tortured Some FOLKS(The members of one’s household; especially one’s parents and immediate family)


17 posted on 08/02/2014 11:37:47 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

What does the Current Occupant now squatting in the White Hut know about “crossing lines”?

He has drawn so many “red lines” which have just disappeared into the sand, after they had been crossed and recrossed so many times, that whenever The Won is talking about “crossing a line”, the term is pretty much meaningless.

Talk about lapsed moral authority.


18 posted on 08/02/2014 11:38:50 AM PDT by alloysteel (Most people become who they promised they would never be.)
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To: Innovative

We crossed that line like we should’ve.

I would’ve water boarded every last one of em...with no name vodka or Ever Clear.

Nothing hurts like alcohol in your sinus and lungs...


19 posted on 08/02/2014 11:39:29 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Innovative

More narcissistic Orwellianisms from this psycho.


20 posted on 08/02/2014 11:40:10 AM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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