Oh my God almighty,. waterboarding is something that was usefull 100 years ago,. STOP LYING,. and go investigate the NSA or general electric or something, and see that CTSCANs or Optical Tomography can extract this kind of information directly from your neurons,. QUIT LYING ABOUT THIS TECHNOLOGY,. this is ALL BULLCRAP!

so I'm supposed to still beleive the tapes were destoyed to PROTECT the CIA
agents IDENTITY...AFTER he went on a
National Media Blitz....WHAT a JOKE !!!

Do what you have to do to get imformation to protect this country because these people have done a lot worse to their own people and our fighting men. I'm so tried of these human right's people belly aching about these people rights they have no rights in this country and if you people don't like it go a live with them and let our government do what needs to be done.

The use of water boarding is classified????

Sounds classified for political reasons.

I WANDER HOW MUCH IS THE MEDIA PAYING THIS FORMER CIA AGENT TO TALK? ANYWAYS WATERBOARDING OR ANYTHING TO MAKE SOME PUNK TALKED TO SAVE THOUSANDS OF AMERICA OR INNOCENT CIVILIAN LIFES ANYWHERE AROUND THE WORLD SHOULD BE LEFT BEHIND CLOSE DOOR... YOU THINK THE ENEMY OR ANY JIHADIST WILL GIVE YOU LIBERALS MERCY IF CAPTURED OR KIDNAPPED...LOOKED WHAT HAPPENED TO DANIEL PEARL, OR THE SOLDIERS CAPTURED BY THE JIHADIST...ARE THEY HERE NOW?

GOD BLESS THE C.I.A.? KEEP UP THE GOOD JOB FOR OUR FREEDOM... IT'S LIKE THIS IF DON'T YOU'RE DAMNED AND IF YOU DO YOU'RE DAMNED...NO MATTER WHAT PEOPLE IS STILL FREE IN THIS COUNTRY TO PROTEST AND COMPLAIN ABOUT EVERYTHING...

Another scumbag making a name for himself.... wonder how many book deals he'll get selling out his country.........

Someday somehow it may be at Judgement Day the doors of the CIA will be open for all to see.....

This former CIA agent should be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law! The Congress is making it impossible for the Executive Branch to do its work. The constant threat of Congressional intervention and inquiries is allowing for fissures in the chain-of-command. Those who fear that their actions as directed by the President of the United States of America, regardless of who he is, will be scrutinized by the Congress or the Supreme Court in the future are not doing a service to our country. The Congress is creating a culture of insubordination and disrespect. How will we defend ourselves from future attacks? I agree that the Congress has the right of oversight, but do it in a more proper way…a way that is not borderline animalistic.

Plame has it all taken care of.

it's really too bad that you torture apologists can't see what is really happening here. people in the cia are coming forward now so they won't be executed for the war crimes they have committed later. and make no mistake, under the laws and treaties of this country, waterboarding is torture, these are war crimes, and the perpetrators are liable to face the maximum penalty. also, it really does not help your case to place a conditional "may" before "have saved thousands of lives". there is no proof that this is the case, it is mere conjecture that waterboarding saved lives. but even if it did, it is still against the law and the legal thing to do would have been to have changed the law before the administration ordered the cia to disregard it.

i couldn't disagree with many of you here more: the people that must be prosecuted are those that authorized and condoned this practice. we will very soon i'm sure see many more of those who carried out these orders coming forward in order to save their own skin.

Most young people in this country are so clueless and naive. Go teach English, hopefully you are better at that then debating this issue. LIFE is not perfect. If you went home tonight, found your home on fire, people dead and ONE person could save the rest....what would you do??? Would you look up a law or ACT at the moment when seconds count??? One thing I hate in this country more than anything is Monday Morning Quarter-backing. We spend so damn much time in-fighting, debating,and never solving anything. If you have any better ideas on how to take care of people who "Go to heaven for killing the most infidels" or are just EVIL; then put some kind of
&%#@ing uniform on like that lady in CO. and "act". I am a 59 y/o Nurse. If I had to, I would learn to shoot a gun to protect my loved ones from evil people. Most of you Liberals would schedule a cocktail party to gossip and discuss the better and legal way to handle things. Things were not perfect in WW-1,WW-2 and believe me, they will be beyond anyones imagination in ww-3...THAT is why it has not been declared. Life is hard enough for people ALL over the world without the constant worry, fear, of being hated and "hunted" for their simple beliefs and existence. God bless the USA!If you hate it so bad, stop taking up space and MOVE.

It has all been taken care of.

In 1947, the U.S. charged a Japanese officer, Yukio Asano, with war crimes for waterboarding a U.S. civilian. Asano was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor.
Throughout the centuries, the justifications for using waterboarding have been remarkably consistent. Almost every time this comes along, people say, 'This is a new enemy, a new kind of war, and it requires new techniques,'. And there are always assurances that it is carefully regulated.

The role of the citizen is to protect what the nation stands for, not necessarily what the nation does.

The president is entrusted with protecting the constitution of the United States. In his pursuit of war, he cast away the constitution and in doing so has abrogated his duty.

BARBARA, by sneering at the rule of law, you demonstrate a dislike for this nation's bedrock. If you have no respect for law and no respect for the constitution of the USA, then you neither love nor respect this great nation.

TYRONE, you don't respect the role of a strong Congress and Judiciary as enshrined in the constitution. Would you amend our Constitution to allow for the kingship that you truly desire? America would rather that you find the monarchy you seek by living in Saudi Arabia or some destitute 3rd world nation with whose people you can share your destitute 3rd world opinion on government. I've been to Africa, I know the horrors that an unchecked executive can do.

Guys, this is not a land of vicious retribution behind closed doors, this is the land that revived and redefined the ideas of civil liberties, human rights, and the RULE OF LAW. Under these guidelines we flourished economically, culturally, socially, and technologically for centuries. Would you discard everything this land stands for in the name of some specter of security? After doing so, what would you really have left to protect? Our nation would become indistinguishable from our enemy.

Barbara Dykes, my advice would be to just get your fat butt back in your Suburban and go shopping at WalMart, and stop worrying your undereducated mind about things you don't understand. Seriously, honey, my 7 y.o. can write better than you.

It is sad we are arguing this. This is torture as defined by the UN, period. If we hold ourselves higher than the UN why should any other country? Ever think of our own troops if they get captured? I would never have our country do something to these people that I wouldn't be willing to have done to our own solders. I would rather be one of the few hundred to die in an attack, than to have one of our solders subjected to torture who volunteered to protect me.

I find it interesting that we believe it is in the best interest of our country to use interrogation techniques which we have prosecuted others for using.

Once we are willing to accept our government treating others in this manner, we will be one step away from allowing such treatment to American citizens.

Who knows how this will turn out? Maybe they'll haul him off and torture him for awhile.

They tell us that these techniques work, but hide the products of such interrogation under the cloak of "National Security".

I am amazed how dumb Americans can be, torture is not used to extract information, it is a political toll to obtain a false confession. It is America who is invading and killing innocent people in other countries and it is Americas troops who are the terrorist so wake up from the myth that America is innocent and the world is divided by good and evil.

Amendmen7

Nicely worded. Thank you.