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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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To: Paladin2

BO doesn’t torture, he just goes ahead and kills them with drones.


21 posted on 08/02/2014 11:40:29 AM PDT by dandiegirl
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To: Paladin2

This is Saul Alinsky horse blank.

One of Alinsky’s rules for radicals, is that you make your opponents live up to their own standards, otherwise you call them out for their hypocrisy.

In this case, Obama is calling out Bush and the CIA at the time, for not living up to some alleged standard.

Now, work with me here. If Obama is calling out Bush and the CIA for not living up to the highest ideals, is he calling out an enemy for not living up to the highest ideals? Meaning America is the enemy, per Alinsky criteria??? What is Obama really saying???


22 posted on 08/02/2014 11:41:10 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: Innovative

Obama? I’ve heard that name somewhere before... Hmmm... Isn’t he the guy who bragged about being “really good at killing people” with drones without due process of law or a declaration of war?


23 posted on 08/02/2014 11:41:25 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Innovative

This is just a tactic to repudiate George W. Bush administration ... a political ploy. Obama would employ real torture if he really believed he or his family was in danger. We just wouldn’t know about it.


24 posted on 08/02/2014 11:42:30 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: God luvs America

Obama treats our enemies as innocent civilians. He then militarizes our police so we citizens can be treated as the enemy


25 posted on 08/02/2014 11:43:23 AM PDT by LauraJean (sometimes I win sometimes I donate to the equine benevolent society)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Did it ever occur to him that the information he got for the Bin Laden Raid (Operation Neptune Spear) came from those interrogations?


26 posted on 08/02/2014 11:47:55 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: LauraJean

Our “president” is all about “equality” don’t ya know.


27 posted on 08/02/2014 11:48:08 AM PDT by mowowie
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To: Innovative

But mr. mulato killing Americans with drone strikes is okee dokee, not saying that maybe he didn’t need killing just pointing out mr. mulato for the duplicitous sack of excrement he is. Personally I don’t think we gave these “people” enough special attention.


28 posted on 08/02/2014 11:48:50 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Where’s Dick Cheney to tell him to go to hell? Bush won’t.


29 posted on 08/02/2014 11:49:22 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: Innovative

...said the man who traded 5 Taliban commanders for 1 America-hating deserter, in a deal brokered by A COUNTRY WHO IS BUSY HELPING HAMAS ATTACK ISRAEL (QATAR).


30 posted on 08/02/2014 11:49:28 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Innovative

In related news, Obama issues Executive Order #38954 abolishing the CIA because of its “crimes against humanity” and replacing its functions with a consortium of Nation of Islam “ministers”, Hamas “diplomats” and exemplary individuals selected by Valerie Jarrett from candidates proposed by George Soros.

/s


31 posted on 08/02/2014 11:54:18 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ( "Our Emperor may have no clothes, but doesn't he have a wonderful tan" - MSM)
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To: Innovative
US crossed the line in the Presidential election the last two times.

vaudine

32 posted on 08/02/2014 11:54:52 AM PDT by vaudine
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To: Innovative
6,800 pages?!

Gee I'm glad he kept stuff out.

33 posted on 08/02/2014 11:57:11 AM PDT by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: BwanaNdege

“In related news, Obama issues Executive Order #38954 RE-PURPOSING the CIA because of its “crimes against humanity” and replacing its functions with a consortium of Nation of Islam “ministers”, Hamas “diplomats” and exemplary individuals selected by Valerie Jarrett from candidates proposed by George Soros. THE CIA WILL NOW BE DEDICATED SOLELY TO MONITOR CONSERVATIVES AND REPUBLICANS, ESPECIALLY THOSE SERVING IN THE HOUSE OR SENATE TO ENSURE COMPLIANCE WITH OBAMA’S LAWS”

Full quote. . .


34 posted on 08/02/2014 12:03:56 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: Innovative

...as he checks off names on the daily disposition matrix.


35 posted on 08/02/2014 12:04:25 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Innovative

Translation:

American Whitey has a duty to lay down and die at the hands of Muslims for some contrived guilt.


36 posted on 08/02/2014 12:08:29 PM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: 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.

Ah not so much.. I am fair minded, a law abiding citizen and I have no problem with the action taken involving terrorists at war with America...........


37 posted on 08/02/2014 12:09:41 PM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: Innovative

The Democrats are trying everything to save themselves. They must have had some horrendous polling numbers this week. I think Nancy Pelosi’s head may actually explode.


38 posted on 08/02/2014 12:15:05 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Innovative
It's all becoming clear to me now.


39 posted on 08/02/2014 12:15:20 PM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: Innovative

The line we crossed was when we elected that Marxist maniac and then did it again just for emphasis. That was a “RED LINE” that never should have been crossed. This nation and perhaps the greatest part of the world may pay for that one for a thousand years.


40 posted on 08/02/2014 12:28:46 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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