At CIA HQ, Obama Defends Torture Memo Release

Members of Congress saw many photos that
have not been released, they also held hearings. I'd like to see those documents too.

Obama engages in the renditioning of prisoners, he's not better than anyone
else regardless of party, regardless of adminstration. Obama just sent 35,000 more troops to Afghan and how many more
going to Pakistan? He just got $83 billion to continue the war, I'm sick of him blowing his horn, and putting our Country down. He ain't my hope.

What? Obama says we are constrained by a constitution? What he wants to dismantle that too? Hope your all happy that you voted for this idiot! How about putting on tv for everyone the execution of Daniel Pearl? Sounds fair to me.

THE ELECTION of Barack Obama has put our country and every American in it in grave danger. Incompetents at Homeland Security and CIA; release of classified information for no good reason, etc. We have elected an utter incompetent. God help us all.

HAVE WE BEEN HIT SINCE 911? ENOUGH SAID.
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"The blame for outing Valerie Plame
belongs to Armitage and Powell!"
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With these type of statements you wonder where these persons have really been for the last 8 years ,,, or what propaganda they listen to.

It is a know fact that 911 happen on BUSH / CHENEY's watch... And as far a not being hit again, well you have not paid any attention to the over 4,400 of our soldiers that have been killed or over 35,000 of our soldiers wounded , or the cost of destruction to our country and economy Bush has caused with his oil war...
Do you realize that Saudi Arabia had 15 of the 19 terrorist on the planes of 911 and Bush sent the Saudi's which were in this country home when all other citizens and planes were grounded..

Anyone that has followed the news of the treason knows that Bush let Cheney leak that Plane was an active covert CIA agent who was in charge of keeping a check of Iran's nuke operations.

But of course we do not look for intelligent facts and information from people defending Bush/Cheney's criminal administration , because there is none...

Notice how they are very careful to say "might bring charges" against officials of the Bush administration who devised "" harsh interrogation "" not stating that it is torture which we have convicted people which perform these types of policies against our soldiers..

You can be sure that they are not the ones being tortured or really give a d..... about the people who they do torture..

Obama and Emanuel has already pardon Bush for his crimes or he would not have made the previous statements of looking forward and not looking back and not prosecution Bush..

Obama has just as much BS and lies with him as his friends Pelosi , Reid , Feinstein , Schumer and the rest of the democrats and republicans..

Seems as if Kucinich was the only person which stated the truth and you could take him for his word..

I hope the independence have a candidate which is worth voting for. Because the democrats have just as much lies and BS as Bush and the republicans..

Our country is controlled by this Global Corporate Empire which our government has help to rise.. The are adding daily many foreign corporations and countries to this Empire..

With this Global Empire in place they will control the jobs market around the world and we will become slaves for the elite...

HAVE WE BEEN HIT SINCE 911? ENOUGH SAID.

Silky, honey, try dealing in facts, rather than in Olbermann/Maddow spin. Plame was "outed" by Richard Armitage, assistant to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Both the leaker and the leakee have admitted that is true. It was not a Cheney directive. (And no, I am not a Cheney fan or a Cheney apologist. I voted for Bush twice despite his VP, not because of his VP.)

"The blame for outing Valerie Plame
belongs to Armitage and Powell!"

Complete and utterly BS and everybody knows it. It was a directive from Cheney.

THE PREZ IS RIGHT. IF WE DO THIS TO OTHERS, WE HAVE NO FUTURE GROUND TO STAND ON.

WATERBOARDING EACH PRISONER 180 TIMES IN A MONTH AND NOT CALLING IT TORTURE???

"I THINK SOME OF THE GOP IDIOTS HERE SHOULD BE WATERBOARDED 180 TIMES AND TELL ME WHAT THEY FEEL AFTERWARDS.

GET A GRIP.

WE ARE NOT NAZIS.

THIS IS WHAT THE SS GESTAPO USED TO DO."

Are you serious? This is not what the Gestapo used to do moron. The Gestapo would murder your wife and child in front of your eyes to extract the information they wanted. Then, after they got it, they would send you to a work camp where they used you as slave labor until you died. The blind, reflexively argumentative liberals here who morally equivicate what was done to terror suspects here with the worst of what was done in the Soviet Union, China or Nazi Germany should get their heads out of their butts and engage in a little quantification. Our President just shook hands with brutal dictators who have the blood and screams of thousands of dissidents on their hands and he has the audacity to be critical of CIA tactics like putting a catapillar in a box containing a terror suspect who had a fear of insects? I knew a Marine recruit who was forced to do push-ups over a red ant colony as punnishment for a poorly organized foot locker. I suppose out watchdogs of morality would arrest and charge the drill sargent with cruelty. The problem is this is SOP in the Corps, an institution with a long and proud tradition of producing the best fighting men in this country. We are losin' it folks.

Torture??? What is going on here? If this crap constitutes torture, then we also torture Army and Marine recriuts and high school football players. Has this nation gone so psychotheraputically, hyperanalyitically insane that it would equate psychological pressure, intimidation, and perceived danger with inflicting actual physical pain on a suspect? Oh and I wonder how many opponents of these methods would change their tune if a little "behind closed doors" pressure meant the difference between life and death for a loved one. This debate isn't rooted in reality. It's mental masturbation.

Obama was wrong - No other way to put it. His answer is BS - he starting to do what I feared he would. Not be President of the United States but a pelosi - ried type.

His attorney general is a hater - arrogant fool - he is also wrong.

God only knows what happen in the next 3 years.

Obama was wrong - No other way to put it. His answer is BS - he starting to do what I feared he would. Not be President of the United States but a pelosi - ried type.

His attorney general is a hater - arrogant fool - he is also wrong.

God only knows what happen in the next 3 years.

DrSamba:
Learn the facts.
Bush and Cheny Did Not Out Valerie
Plame!
Richard Armitage, Assistant Secretary
of State to Secretary of State,
Colin Powell outed Ms Plame.
Everyone covers up this fact because
he worked for Powell and Powell sold
out his own party to endorse
President Obama two weeks before the
election!
The blame for outing Valerie Plame
belongs to Armitage and Powell!

Let me get this straight, you have hours maybe to get info, you walk in and offer cookies and milk, and ask please will you give up names, times, and place of where you plan on killing 3000 to 10,000 people, that works everytime. Or you can do a water boarding, (of which our own people go thru in training), you want to be nice to a bunch of terrorists,what part of terrorist do you not understand. The CIA is trying to protect us, Obama is tying their hands. When and if somethings happens, (and it will), how many on the left will say, they killed my family and friends. Do not come crying it could have been prevented, don't go balming Bush, YOU are the problem. Being nice doesn't work.

"WE DONT TORTURE" just another LIE promoted by GWB. I commend President Obama for cleaning this filthy house. We cannot and should not EVER AGAIN be so naive as to think that a LIE like this can rectify our unAmerican ways. It is ALWAYS best to clean house once a pig moves out.

>>>>More naive and pointless grandstanding by a bumbling administration that will ultimately endanger the lives of every U.S. citizen. The ineptitude of this administration is truly frightening.

Very true!
It's as though Obama is encouraging deviants to test him.
Oh wait - now that The Messiah has spoken - America no longer has any enemies.
Kumbaya.

"Top Secret" has no meaning to this administration.

Obama's only motive was to humiliate Bush and toss a bone to his base.

so basically the other countries will just slit the Americans throats - just because or put us in jail for nothing. We here in the US will just let you go. Terrorists - Come into our country, hurt us, kill us - it is ok. No need for CIA or FBI to protect. - Hell we might as well get rid of the Secret Service. There are no secrets anymore. The whole world will know everything about us in 8 months. Run for the hills

So many of you are completely missing the point. This is not about ending torture-- that's been done. This is about releasing top secret memos discussing the interrogation techniques and revealing information that need not be made public to all and sundry, including enemies of the state. You are against torture, so you support the president speaking out against torture? Goody. But there was nothing naive about his decision to ignore the advice of Panetta and other intelligence officials about the dangers of releasing these memos.

Tell me-- did you not know before Obama released these memos that this administration is against torture and that they have insisted that the interrogation techniques used in some circumstances in the previous administration will not be used now? Of course you did. Did Obama not already make moves to take a stand against torture and express his displeasure about past policies in this regard? Of course he did. What does the release of these memos add? Was it really worth the damage it will do to our agents and our intelligence gathering system? No.

More naive and pointless grandstanding by a bumbling administration that will ultimately endanger the lives of every U.S. citizen. The ineptitude of this administration is truly frightening.