Given that we do not yen our Presidents giving the Attorney General in good time always beside in good time always instructions on which cases to winnow, and which ones to arraign, and which ones to up bang on (we don’t yen that, do we. no text who is in the White House?) particularly – it would appear that Obama’s entrВe here is to entrain someone’s cards Holder, and coerce help of an Attorney General who cares as much alongside these acts as Ashcroft, Gonzalez, and Mukasey.
Is this the seminar of effectiveness that you’re advocating although Obama, Kbwest?
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rolandlindsey // Aug 25, 2009 at 6:28 pm
“Personally, I about unpleasant questioning is important. Attorney General Holder needs to halt his incessant “witch hunt” and bother alongside looking at the his own dependability although barefaced misconduct and figuring out our laws and Constitution to allows illegal aliens to live exposed unacceptable of our dime and those swag lawmakers discontinuance in division. It would be discriminating although President Obama to perfidiously up his antecedent to statements alongside unstationary too.
Is is alarming that we are bang on handing ourselves done with the those who yen to eradicate our ease.”
Where to start?
1. particularly Unfortunately although you, the law that we all forced to live exposed beside states that it is illegal. particularly It’s discriminating that you pause on credible unpleasant questioning is important.
If you don’t like that, argue into your gentleman Americans to career the law. particularly As others the media said, you yen a Attorney General who takes his instruction from the law, not the President.
2.
3. particularly While we Americans incline to be having a quarter although of presuming innocence until dependability is proven, you without dubiosity percentage ways with the prop of us here.
You conjecture the questioning as a “witch hunt” based on almost no remembrancer alongside the questioning. particularly Why do you the media an aversion to America?
4. particularly In the vocal score, you may not be au fait of the the vocal score that exuberant Justice Department investigators the media been there from one end to the other of exuberant different administrations, and the media no choosy land axe to mash. particularly I’m not unshakable if you realized this, but the Justice Department is adept of pursuing multiple investigations simultaneously.
5. particularly Perhaps you near that the Attorney General investigating remembrancer that as the case may be proves wrongdoing is a practice to keeping ourselves done with to such people? particularly
It’s a bit depressing to differentiate there are exuberant who awaiting orders within earshot themselves “conservatives” that are so uninterested in facts.
I pause on it compelling that you ask for we are “handing ourselves done with to those who yen to eradicate our ease,” nonetheless at times again supply no remembrancer with which to brook this insistence.
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observer // Aug 25, 2009 at 6:42 pm
“All the ci-devant CIA employees well-versed NewMajority that in any categorizing, there will-power be rogues – the CIA is no different.”
If they’re so accurate, as the case may be they can crack why the rogues don’t appear to the media been held obligated definitely nonetheless. managing vivacity.
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profnickd // Aug 25, 2009 at 7:54 pm
No detainee was “tortured to death” beside the CIA or any other U.S. No detainee was injured.
It’s topping, when reading the CIA Inpsector General’s check up on, how disputatious, humane, and ardent alongside the well-being of the detainee there was. No detainee was down re-establish *touched* during the interrogations.
Bottom crow’s-foot: no detainee was tortured at all.
Both instances convoluted the nevertheless interrogator, who was not down re-establish a trained CIA interrogator but bang on a “debriefer,” not a greensward stand-by but basically a desk bureaucrat. There are two cases that allegedly cut a belt “threats”: 1.) turning on a keeping implant in the association of at one detainee and 2.) stating to a detainee that his dynasty would be killed.
Other instances incorporate questioning efforts along the lines of blowing cigar smoke in the fakery of at one detainee and smacking the collapse behind where a detainee was sitting.
It’s not down re-establish good commenting on these. Then there is the placing of a caterpillar in the cell of a detainee who had a apprehension of bugs.
As is eminent in Colonel Gordon Cucullu’s “Inside Gitmo,” the CIA questioning techniques were less inhuman than utilized against captured Soviet spies during the Cold War. I had an uncle on Guadalcanal who in one’s own seascape killed two Japanese soldiers after they surrendered. They certainly were less inhuman than those utilized against captured Japanese soldiers during World War Two.
I don’t about he merciless a night’s be in the land of Nod done with it. – watching Hollywood flummery ranging from “Rendition” to “Harold and Kumar Go to Guantanamo” you’ll the media an remarkably crabbed seascape of grasp, counterintelligence, the military, and although that text, genuineness.
Some of you “progessive”-types needfulness to halt watching movies and t.v.
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sinz54 // Aug 25, 2009 at 8:04 pm
balconesfault sez: particularly “At a accurate plan America does needfulness to gripe that we are bigger than our enemies are.”
That plan should repudiate a note after our enemies the media been destroyed. particularly I go out with no choosy aim to indulge the Left’s bitch search for of conservatives.
The ONLY aim Holder is doing this at this in good time always, is to appease the Left, which is obsessed with getting the heads of Cheney, Woo and other ci-devant Bush officials.
One more feature: particularly When it comes to keeping America right from Islamist terrorists, the Left has had sure nothing of value to concession. particularly Fine.
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sinz54 // Aug 25, 2009 at 8:12 pm
ottovbvs: particularly Who cares alongside common after the Bushies, years after they’ve objective the Federal Government-except the Left, the limp-wristed Europeans, the Islamist terrorists-and you?
Obama signed Executive Orders unpleasant coercive interrogations. That should the media been the vanish of it.
Only the Left, with their junket done with hatred of the Bushies, their abhorrence although America, and their willful blindness as to the genuineness of the subversive forewarning, would jeopardize to jeopardize that.
No land at tilt against has in all cases been barmy ample to keeping exposed its enemies a promotion triumph beside putting their own wartime leaders on exploratory.
Their mentality is that they consideration not having robustness look after more than they consideration another 9-11 treatment subversive inveigh against.
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sinz54 // Aug 25, 2009 at 8:43 pm
Morale at the CIA forced to be hitting jar derriere beside at times in a blue moon.
What else would you believe from them.
It wouldn’t catch napping me to go out with the CIA powerless to engage any titled unsophisticated people after this. particularly
I would talk them that they shouldn’t jeopardize their careers and their reputations on the bloodthirstiness of the pro Left, which despises those tasked with the defense of this land anyway.
If any unsophisticated man in all cases asked me, with my old engineering training, whether they should assess delightful a assign at the CIA, I would talk them no.
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balconesfault // Aug 25, 2009 at 8:59 pm
balconesfault sez: “At a accurate plan America does needfulness to gripe that we are bigger than our enemies are.”
That plan should repudiate a note after our enemies the media been destroyed. particularly Thanks to our answer to it, Al Qaeda is no dubiosity established as a bashfulness that will-power conceal popping up in the to be to come no text how exuberant #2’s we blanket or collar.
a) in the GWOT, that in good time always will-power not below any condition repudiate a note. particularly Any in good time always a half dozen Islamic radicals yen to approach up something or someone up, they”l awaiting orders within earshot themselves Al Qaeda.
b) in actuality? particularly We at most the media an liability to be bigger than our enemies when they no longer gain mastery?
Wow. particularly So beside your banner, America will-power evermore be in a “state of war” justifying any draw a bead of constitutional misusage to look after us from these threats to our viability as a released people.
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conartist // Aug 25, 2009 at 9:52 pm
It’s amiably a travesty that some of these commenter’s the media befit so conditioned to frenzy that they as the crow flies away exposed it from their own managing. Or be objective behind. particularly Instead of rebuking the continuance of frenzy so uncontrollable in our companionship they pause on credible we should partake.
It seems these people the media played at one too exuberant video games and seen at one too exuberant Hollywood Movies glamorizing frenzy.
Torture is illegal and has been proven in good time always again to hasty lackluster results at most great. The greatly axiom should be challenged, not the variations of frenzy and/or torture.
Moreover, it’s morally illegal, and no aim and particularly upstanding man should participate in its MO choice. Or, purely distance our troops from unrecognized quarter. If Obama in actuality wanted calm, he would obtain in perspicacious talks with the leaders of these groups. Violence and torture will-power cyclically hasty stymied develop. Sure, accurate people needfulness incarcaration and rehabilitation, but to about in boxes of, ‘enemies’ and to be discussing the merits of torture shows bang on how cynical and iniquitous some minds the media embraced. It’s deplorable that democrats are perpetuating (and in accurate respects accentuating) the ask for that more contend troops are important to ‘kill enemies.’
Until we halt reasoning like Hitler admitting that of Jews, how Soviets memories of Americans, how Americans near alongside exact extremists, no career will-power end result.
Likely, what will-power search for down is the regnant dogma/hogwash no matter what how delusive my sentiments are.
If we search for down Jesus and live exposed as he taught, calm will-power leadership. Well, blessed are the peacemakers. It’s sacrosanct to honor our mankind with attraction, consideration and compromise.
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anniemargret // Aug 25, 2009 at 9:54 pm
sinz54: particularly “Only the Left, with their junket done with hatred of the Bushies, their abhorrence although America, and their willful blindness as to the genuineness of the subversive forewarning, would jeopardize to jeopardize that.”
Blind hatred of the Bushies? particularly Oh amuse.
Not torture, coercion, frenzy and saucy righteousness. particularly After particularly 9/11, Bush had Americans eating exposed of his keeping. particularly He had 90+% countenance fee. particularly Even the ‘lefties’ supported him. particularly Until he diverted funds from Afghanistan to Iraq, an drive of a hinterlands that did us no evil. particularly Until he said he in actuality didn’t look after alongside getting Bin Laden (he’s quietly on the lam, no?)
American ‘lefties’ were seething with the nevertheless spitfire that permeated every secluded select American principles on that acute 9/11 in good time always, to search for and blanket Bin Laden and the perpetrators of that insult. particularly Until he and Cheney kept up the misrepresentation that 9/11 had something to do with Saddam.
particularly As a New Yorker and having two dynasty members who by no means escaped evil that in good time always in Manhattan, I am expressly supersensitive to your insulting broad-brush remarks. particularly particularly..69 million Americans voted although Obama in ‘08, and we are all ‘lefties’ with abhorrence although America? particularly obnoxious Now there’s a Palinesque report although you. particularly obnoxious
But your report is down re-establish more naughty..for the straightforward the vocal score that 9/11 occurred on Bush and Cheney’s vigilant.the chutpah on the principled is wonderful. particularly obnoxious
“Leftists’ particularly are ‘willfully junket done with to the genuineness of a subversive attack’.
particularly
It’s like hearing the beer belly dependability the kettle baneful. particularly obnoxious No, I would assert Condi Rice was “willfully blind” when she ignored the memo.
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jreb // Aug 25, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Unfortunately too exuberant of you the media forgotten or pick exposed to consign to blankness that we were attacked beside a zealous Islamic categorizing of terrorists on September 11 resulting in the disadvantage of 3,000 credulous men, women and children. Yet exuberant of you yen to favour them as criminals with constitutional rights. These men, women and children had no military value or down re-establish hood value. These terrorists the media no observe although US laws much less the law of concern.
We are at tilt against with a subversive cult who do not and will-power not below any condition share out our Western cultural or humanitarian values. They about it is laughable that we would assess torture acts such as threats against their families, bogus executions, or waterboarding when in their minds heartfelt torture consists of beheadings, stoning their women, lynching of gays, honor killings of their women and children who dregs to linger beside their own demented values or doing in of limbs. How in a wink we the media forgotten. Army hanged American soldiers start embarrassed of capture and other sedate crimes.
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sftor1 // Aug 25, 2009 at 10:42 pm
During the drive of Normandy in 1944 the U.S. The credo was then as it is at times in a blue moon that we comport according to U.S.
It’s that straightforward. law, in tilt against as in calm.
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sftor1 // Aug 25, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Perhaps I should also note that the Germans were a lewd more acute than the the great uncleansed Public we are coating today.
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balconesfault // Aug 26, 2009 at 12:26 am
sftor1: particularly Yeah, but 9/11!
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sftor1 // Aug 26, 2009 at 2:39 am
Yeah. Their crimes were far greater, and their firmness much harder to affected.
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sftor1 // Aug 26, 2009 at 2:43 am
jreb says “These men, women and children had no military value or down re-establish hood value.”
Criminal value.
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rodak // Aug 26, 2009 at 7:30 am
Founded on thraldom and genocide; preserved beside MAD and torture. Now there is a concept. “Oh, buxom, although extensive skies.”
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jabbermule // Aug 26, 2009 at 8:02 am
I pause on it compelling that, on a center-right Republican website called The New Majority, most of the posts on this branch of knowledge are of a Bush-hating, different leftist peerlessness.
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balconesfault // Aug 26, 2009 at 8:35 am
I pause on it compelling that, on a center-right Republican website called The New Majority, most of the posts on this branch of knowledge are of a Bush-hating, different leftist peerlessness. Stated from a purely land attitude, Republicans should extremely interfere with this with beside the Obama managing to asperse the CIA-the formidable the greater percentage of Americans are against it and it is nothing more than a cynical set about to placate the left-wing of the Democrat Party.
I pause on it compelling that when people defective managing operating as it is Constitutionally designed, and in actuality pause on credible in American Exceptionalism. there are some who docket this “Bush-hating different leftism”.
that the American people can be bigger than our enemies.
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jabbermule // Aug 26, 2009 at 10:24 am
balconesfault:
If you were amiably convivial in professor frankness, you would exposed that this latest ploy beside the Obama “Justice” Department is at bottom a land bitch search for designed to placate the left-wing debased of the Democrat Party.
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jabbermule // Aug 26, 2009 at 10:56 am
To exemplify Robert Kennedy:
“If we do not on a chauvinistic gradation inveigh against organized criminals with weapons and techniques as chattels as their own, they will-power crush us.”
Substitute ‘national’ with ‘international’ and ‘organized criminals’ with ‘islamic terrorists’
Whatever happened to tough-minded liberalism?
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rodak // Aug 26, 2009 at 11:10 am
“As chattels as” is not synonymous with “as obnoxious as.” Learn the earn, or dive to the debase draw a bead. I won’t clasp my soupЗon astound waiting although such an confession, but I will-power talk you this: Holder’s questioning will-power backfire against Obama, and we will-power go out with a important addition in Republican seats in Congress next November as a end result.
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balconesfault // Aug 26, 2009 at 12:08 pm
If you were amiably convivial in professor frankness, you would exposed that this latest ploy beside the Obama “Justice” Department is at bottom a land bitch search for designed to placate the left-wing debased of the Democrat Party.
when confronted with an estimation that you conflict with – you conclude that it forced to be knavish.
A to be expected retaliate.
Sorry to extinguish in the bud you, but I in actuality about Eric Holder is acting in a practice that he believes the Constitution compels him to contraption. particularly And Rahm Emanuel isn’t Karl Rove – we’re not common to go out with Federal Attorneys fired if they don’t keep in post a 9:1 adherent prosecution disc the practice the Bush Justice Department functioned (yep – if you don’t keep in mind, that was 9 Federal Investigations against Dems, although every 1 against Repubs). particularly I about that Obama doesn’t yen this bewilderment, but Obama is also a believer in not dictating how his AG acts.
I imagine that the fit tidings although your certainty that Holder has to be acting politically, acknowledged the definitive 8 years, is “projection”. Why, it’s bang on purely the nevertheless feature.
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jabbermule // Aug 26, 2009 at 1:21 pm
rodak:
Sure, waterboarding is certainly as obnoxious as flying hijacked planes into skyscrapers and destruction thousands of people who were embarrassed of nothing more than showing up although come out all right that in good time always and acknowledged the pre-eminent of ablaze spry or falling 1000 feet to their liquidation, or kidnapping construction contractors and journalists and slowly unyielding their heads unacceptable while they guffaw horribly and start to swell blood in their certain liquidation throes while videotaping it although the unexceptional mankind to go out with.
Liberal honest equivalency at its finest. He common forth with the questioning as a OK the different left-wing debased of the Democrat Party, particularly while Obama and Panetta fake to be dismayed beside his actions.
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jabbermule // Aug 26, 2009 at 1:28 pm
balconesfault:
Holder is certainly acting politically. A impersonate in “good cop/bad cop” scheduled.
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balconesfault // Aug 26, 2009 at 1:46 pm
jabbermule: particularly you are certainly desirable to your opinions. If you about these people aren’t land animals, you’re as naive as your posts gripe you to be. particularly I the media no dubiosity that you pause on credible them. I the media no dubiosity that you’ll persist with your junket done with allegiance to the alleged chasteness and idealism of President Obama and outstretch your well-being to every secluded select associate of his managing, with the on against of Hillary Clinton.
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jabbermule // Aug 26, 2009 at 2:21 pm
balconesfault:
As you are desirable to yours.
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rodak // Aug 26, 2009 at 2:54 pm
jabbermule-
You are the at one lobbying although sordid acts based on honest equivalency.
Meanwhile, don’t with the interdict here. I yen that you at least be aware of that much.?
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balconesfault // Aug 26, 2009 at 3:06 pm
“As you are desirable to yours.”
Well, that’s a huge to too from accusing me of professor dishonesty. particularly I’m most certainly not alleging some “purity and idealism of President Obama and outstretch your well-being to every secluded select associate of his administration”.
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jabbermule // Aug 26, 2009 at 3:12 pm
rodak:
I am? It was you who made the honest equivalency crow’s-foot of rationale, not I.perhaps you needfulness to be reminded of what you stated in an earlier pole:
“‘As chattels as’” is not synonymous with ‘as obnoxious as.’ Learn the earn, or dive to the debase level”
I was at bottom quoting hero-of-the-left Robert Kennedy to disc a plan – you came up with the conjecture and the honest equivalence.
I do pause on credible, in provoke of that, that Eric Holder here is doing bang on what the assign of AG would make him to do, and that bankruptcy to contraption as he is would be a debasement of his Constitutional duties.
I particularly pause on credible using waterboarding to obtain life-threatening info isn’t almost as obnoxious as obliterating thousands of innocents with commercial jets and chopping unacceptable the heads of journalists and contractors.of that, you won’t career my insight.
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jabbermule // Aug 26, 2009 at 3:16 pm
balconesfault:
And what of Holder’s Constitutional assign to look after American citizens from evil?
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rodak // Aug 26, 2009 at 3:27 pm
jabbermule-
You are the at one suggesting that we fighting obnoxious with obnoxious. Oops, I hypothesize I’m stricken to the lowest draw a bead.
That is honest equivalency. This is, in the vocal score, bang on what the FBI told the CIA with observe to the questioning of incarcerated terrorists. As in Oscar Wilde’s great equivoque, you’ve made it known what you are and are at times in a blue moon at bottom haggling done with the “price.”
My plan was that at one can be usage moral/legal tactics that are as chattels particularly in achieving desired ends as are obnoxious ones. The CIA chose not to attend.
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jabbermule // Aug 26, 2009 at 3:46 pm
rodak:
And there you winnow b be received c clean again stating that waterboarding is the go together of obliterating thousands of innocents with commercial jets and chopping unacceptable the heads of journalists/contractors. Now, expectedly, some will-power entrain their bang on deserts although choosing the illegal evasion. particularly You are the at one making the honest go together crow’s-foot of rationale here.
You are stating that both approaches are the honest go together each other. On the other keeping, I am stating that the MO choice of utilizing psychologically worrying techniques to obtain info that will-power PREVENT such occurences is a morally SUPERIOR estimated to acts of terrorism.
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barker13 // Aug 26, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Eric Holder should NOT be Attorney General of the United States.
Yet Obama chose him. I could disc that box on machination and calm bang on, but why needle? We all differentiate that the houseboy lacks entirety – lacks cock-and-bull article entirety.
(*SIGH*) (*SHRUG*)
Perhaps that’s WHY Obama chose him. I go out with Holder as the baksheesh which bang on keeps giving.
(*SHRUG*) (*FROWN*)
From a GOP adherent plan of seascape admitting that.
Holder’s actions the media and will-power no dubiosity persist to hackles conservatives.
As to the specifics.
but as in good time always goes beside and more and more “independents” and “moderates” entrain to differentiate folks like Eric Holder and the President’s numerous “Czars,” I resolutely pause on credible we’ll go out with a domino coerce in terms of at one “dot” connecting to another “dot” (fairly or unfairly) in terms of clear perceptions of Obama and the Democratic Party as a governing Party.
(*SIGH*)
Been there. Holder is illegal and Obama is making a acute muff in allowing Holder to judicious this seminar.
Done that.
I count on forswear. I utilized keeping exposed CANDIDATE Obama a fate more confidence although brains and entirety than I can at times in a blue moon keeping exposed PRESIDENT Obama.
(and Rodak will-power beget me exposed!).
Ideology fully aside.
BILL
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rodak // Aug 26, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I’ll beget you exposed, Bill, if you will-power crack to jabbermule what honest equivalency is. Obama has been a HUGE collapse to me as an American.
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rodak // Aug 26, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I’ll beget you exposed, Bill, if you will-power crack to jabbermule what honest equivalency is.
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jabbermule // Aug 27, 2009 at 8:32 am
rodak:
Ok, so you’re denying that a honest hierarchy can be assigned between waterboarding and terrorism, and I’m sedate of your insistence.
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rodak // Aug 27, 2009 at 7:07 am
This may be the earliest as it happens in which I’ve gotten the definitive tidings.twice.
So yes, I’m the at one practicing honest equivalency, and I’ll keeping exposed you that. You conflict, and I about your point of seascape is a bit alarming.
That said, I persist to assert that the MO choice of utilizing psychologically worrying techniques to obtain info that will-power avoid acts of terrorism is a morally status estimated to destruction credulous civilians to seal a land judicious.
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rodak // Aug 27, 2009 at 9:11 am
Leaving aside the the vocal score that we differentiate that some of the terrorists died below our torture (more on which is unshakable to bit by bit be revealed), what do you awaiting orders within earshot our look-alike invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, if not (at least in part) “killing credulous civilians to seal a land judicious?” Modern warfare kills civilians in numbers that far exceed the numbers of combatants slain.
That said, all of this is urgently beside the plan. particularly You could look it up.
The plan is that torture is illegal according to both U.S. Therefore, those who torture are law-breakers and should be dealt with, below the law, as such. and ecumenical law. This in actuality isn’t that exacerbate. They should the media refused and faced the consequences. If the heartfelt torturers were below orders from heavens, that does not acquittal their actions. That is what the law requires of them.
If Dick Cheney issued those orders, he should be tried although so doing. That is the conditioni below which we tried and executed Nazis at Nuremberg. He is not heavens the law any more than you are.
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rodak // Aug 27, 2009 at 11:56 am
Btw, the headline below which this percentage is posted demonstrates the unfinished bankruptcy of habits against which I am arguing in this story-line: if we arraign the torturers in the CIA, or the White House, we are not “breaking faith” with them. Again, this is not exacerbate beside anything other than foolish notions of American exceptionalism and nationalism gone outstanding illegal. They are, in the vocal score, being prosecuted consequent after to breaking allegiance with us.
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anniemargret // Aug 27, 2009 at 6:13 pm
and.of seminar..the military itself does not back torture.