rssSenate Armed Services Committee Set to Release Fuller Torture Report
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 9:45 am
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Word coming down the pike: the Senate Armed Services Committee is gearing up to release a fuller version of its report from last year on how the Rumsfeld-era Defense Department got into the torture business. Last year, you’ll recall, the committee held a series of hearings that provided the deepest look to date about the origins of Pentagon interrogation and detainee policy. “Senior officials in the United States government sought information on aggressive techniques, twisted the law to create the appearance of their legality and authorized their use against detainees,” committee chair Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said in June. In December, the committee declassified and released the executive summary of its report.
Now the committee is preparing to release a more complete, declassified version of the report. It’s unclear to me right now if they’re going to declassify the whole thing, but if you haven’t gotten enough interrogation and detention disclosures since Thursday, you’re in for another helping.
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Comment posted April 21, 2009 @ 7:12 am
Transperancy- Obama promised transperancy, but I thought he was talking about letting the American people have enough time to read the stimulus bill before our representatives signed it. I guess I misunderstood, transperancy to Obama means that he will release TOP SECRET information to our enemies against the advise of the last 4 directors of the CIA.
Comment posted April 21, 2009 @ 5:13 pm
The spin is making me dizzy. Top secret memos? Hardly, they were already in Harpers, the New York Review of Books, and everybody who'd been released from US custody knew. The corrupt and now perverse Republicans who outed Valerie Plame, now that's some politically motivated Cheney Treason for you. The Last 4 CIA heads just don't want to be prosecuted for being purveyors of S&M fetish snuff porn to the White House. No wonder Larry (crazyfoot) Craig, Mark (pretty boys) Foley, Diapers David Vitter and teen wrestlers r hot Denny Hastert didn't stand out as freaks in the GOP-the President and VP were watching children be sodomized (Hersh, Grassley) and tortured with the wives and children of alleged terrorists. That's GOPerversion you can believe in! Respect for tradition there goes all the way to the Spanish Inquisition.
Comment posted April 22, 2009 @ 3:55 pm
Where are you from? Do you really believe that info is top secret? For your info our enemies have a lot more torture techniques than us……..but if we are truly a country of liberty and justice for all, then we have to be morally superior to them even if it means no torture for our enemies.
Comment posted May 5, 2009 @ 12:42 pm
“Izzy” is one of those uninformed fools who believe that O'Reilly, as example, though repeatedly proven to be a liar, is nontheless telling him the truth.
Who believe that O'Reilly, as example, even though nothing more than an “entertainer” — a propagandist for far-right lunatic fringe extremism — is an expert in all things, including economics, foreign policy, law, and anything else necessary to defend the America-hating implemented by the Republican party and its “base” of illiterate and morally bankrupt loons.
Who believe that the immorality that is their hatred makes them superior to those they hate for allegedly being haters.
Who believe that torturing alleged torturers is the way to reduce the incidence of torture.
Comment posted May 5, 2009 @ 7:42 pm
“Izzy” is one of those uninformed fools who believe that O'Reilly, as example, though repeatedly proven to be a liar, is nontheless telling him the truth.
Who believe that O'Reilly, as example, even though nothing more than an “entertainer” — a propagandist for far-right lunatic fringe extremism — is an expert in all things, including economics, foreign policy, law, and anything else necessary to defend the America-hating implemented by the Republican party and its “base” of illiterate and morally bankrupt loons.
Who believe that the immorality that is their hatred makes them superior to those they hate for allegedly being haters.
Who believe that torturing alleged torturers is the way to reduce the incidence of torture.
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