http://www.foxnews.com/politics/fir...tion-officials-cleared-interrogation-tactics/
Another version (biased, IMO, because of the word "gruesome" which I bolded) report from AP:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jdxvkOhzjNneMr_LS4qY2ZUrtH-wD97MVV6G3
Since when does a sitting administration begin allowing/endorsing prosecution of former administration officials when he disagrees with their policy?
How far back shall we go? Shall we presecute Clinton for his failed policy in Somalia? Or for bombing the aspirin factory?
How about WW2 and prosecuting anyone involved with dropping the atomic bomb? Of course, they are all probably dead by now, but we can smear them and give them the tag of war criminal on their tombstones and we continue to re-write and re-vise history as liberals continue to do.
This is just another example of the Obama Tyranny and how he says one thing one day (no prosecution) and flip flops, changes his story (lies) the next. When will people wake up?
And can we all notice how he said these things in front of muslims (representative of Arab League)?
What a slap in the face to our intelligence community and our military and to US---We, the people, who were attacked by fiends on 09/11 and those who have served us in the worst attack on our own soil in history. He disgusts me yet again.
Well, you supported impeachment of President Clinton for cheating on his wife, right?
Torture of wartime captives is simply not the American way. The New York Times commented on this today.
In Adopting Harsh Tactics No Look at Past Use
By SCOTT SHANE and MARK MAZZETTI
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/us/politics/22detain.html?th&emc=th
WASHINGTON — The program began with Central Intelligence Agency leaders in the grip of an alluring idea: They could get tough in terrorist interrogations without risking legal trouble by adopting a set of methods used on Americans during military training. How could that be torture?
In a series of high-level meetings in 2002, without a single dissent from cabinet members or lawmakers, the United States for the first time officially embraced the brutal methods of interrogation it had always condemned.
This extraordinary consensus was possible, an examination by The New York Times shows, largely because no one involved — not the top two C.I.A. officials who were pushing the program, not the senior aides to President George W. Bush, not the leaders of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees — investigated the gruesome origins of the techniques they were approving with little debate.
According to several former top officials involved in the discussions seven years ago, they did not know that the military training program, called SERE, for Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape, had been created decades earlier to give American pilots and soldiers a sample of the torture methods used by Communists in the Korean War, methods that had wrung false confessions from Americans.
Even George J. Tenet, the C.I.A. director who insisted that the agency had thoroughly researched its proposal and pressed it on other officials, did not examine the history of the most shocking method, the near-drowning technique known as waterboarding.
The top officials he briefed did not learn that waterboarding had been prosecuted by the United States in war-crimes trials after World War II and was a well-documented favorite of despotic governments since the Spanish Inquisition; one waterboard used under Pol Pot was even on display at the genocide museum in Cambodia.
They did not know that some veteran trainers from the SERE program itself had warned in internal memorandums that, morality aside, the methods were ineffective. Nor were most of the officials aware that the former military psychologist who played a central role in persuading C.I.A. officials to use the harsh methods had never conducted a real interrogation, or that the Justice Department lawyer most responsible for declaring the methods legal had idiosyncratic ideas that even the Bush Justice Department would later renounce.
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Yes, we prosecuted other countries for using the same torture techniques Bush advocated in Iraq.
