Obtained: The CIA Documents Dick Cheney Says Vindicate Torture
Monday, August 24, 2009 at 5:41 pm
We’ve obtained and scanned in the two CIA documents that former Vice President Dick Cheney claims justify his longstanding arguments that torture was an effective interrogation and counterterrorism tool. As you read them, consider this post as well.
Here they are, after the jump:
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Pingback posted August 24, 2009 @ 9:45 pm
[...] Well, OK, it’s not exactly the same document. But it’s about the same thing. [...]
Comment posted August 24, 2009 @ 11:42 pm
Keep up the pressure for multiple and unrestrained investigations of all of those suspected of torturing or conspiring to torture during the Bush-Cheney Administration.
THIS INCLUDE BUSH, CHENEY, RUMSFELD, and their lawyers.
KEEP ASKING ALL POLITICIANS AT ALL PUBLIC EVENTS
“WHY DO YOU SUPPORT TORTURE?” If they aren't actively calling for enforcement of our Federal Torture Laws, They DO Support Torture.
SIGN THE PETITIONS
Demanding
both a Commission of Inquiry
and a Special Prosecutor
For All Their Crimes
at ANGRYVOTERS.ORG
Only Prosecution Stops Torture!
Only Prosecution Stops Violations of Our Constitution and Rule Of Law.
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Comment posted August 24, 2009 @ 11:53 pm
As Ackerman noted, the liberal admixture of “interrogators” and “debriefers” is conveniently nebulous. The level of redaction does not help much, either.
Pingback posted August 25, 2009 @ 3:06 am
[...] the whole story here: Spencer Ackerman aggregated by [...]
Pingback posted August 25, 2009 @ 9:24 am
[...] Spencer Ackerman @ The Washington Independent has documents Cheney says validates the use of torture. Lots of redactions. [...]
Pingback posted August 25, 2009 @ 11:58 am
[...] claims to prove that the tactics used to coerce information from terror suspects have been leaked. Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent provides some analysis of the documents here if [...]
Pingback posted August 25, 2009 @ 3:33 pm
[...] problem is, the documents Cheney cites, obtained by the Washington Independent, do no such [...]
Pingback posted August 25, 2009 @ 4:17 pm
[...] the CIA released two of those memos from 2004 and 2005, which had been secret until now. As Spencer Ackerman notes, these memos do [...]
Pingback posted August 25, 2009 @ 8:57 pm
[...] would prove that torture had been justified because it prevented terrorism. (Those documents are here.) I’ve scanned them, and my immediate reaction is that despite what Cheney claims, they [...]
Pingback posted August 26, 2009 @ 2:35 am
[...] documents were obtained today by The Washington Independent and are available here. Strikingly, they provide little evidence for Cheney’s claims that the “enhanced [...]
Pingback posted August 26, 2009 @ 9:21 am
[...] the CIA released two of those memos from 2004 and 2005, which had been secret until now. As Spencer Ackerman notes, these memos do [...]
Pingback posted August 27, 2009 @ 8:59 am
[...] (Read the memos here.) [...]
Comment posted August 27, 2009 @ 4:52 pm
Both of these documents appear to be scanned wrong. Both documents jump to page 7 after the title page. 1-6 is at the end of the document. Did anybody actually look at these?
Pingback posted August 27, 2009 @ 8:42 pm
[...] was.” Those documents were obtained today by The Washington Independent and are available here. Strikingly, they provide little evidence for Cheney’s claims that the “enhanced [...]
Pingback posted August 28, 2009 @ 8:31 am
[...] also said the released documents prove enhanced interrogation techniques yielded valuable information that “provided the bulk [...]
Comment posted August 28, 2009 @ 6:54 pm
Don't you think you could have posted a scanned pdf of the papers instead of that rediculous SCRIBD service which makes it impossible to enlarge the type enough to read while actually keeping the whole width of the page visible?
Why does ANYONE upload to Scribd.
It's universally horrible.
Everyone hates reading from it.
Comment posted August 28, 2009 @ 7:17 pm
What is extremely significant that no one has talked about what page seven of the second document window says (page seven displays first for some reason so it is the first page you see.)
It says that KSM planned the operation on Sept 11 and KSM had not even been a member of Al Quaeda. (if you read the reports on KSM that have come out he was a disgruntled student who had attended college in America in North Carolina and had been treated badly then including having his shoes thrown in the lake when he took them off to worship at the mosque. (thanks North Carolina bullies for prompting 9/11)
Ossama bin Laden didn't think of 9/11 or conceive it or plan the attack against the USA until KSM came along and ossama refused to do it the first time it was presented to him and only agreed to a scaled down version after changing his mind in 1999.
So really it was KSM who caused 9/11 primarily . I wonder if Ossama had ANY plans to attack the US at all before KSM came along or if the whole thing was simply a result of a kid who was bullied in college in the USA and therefore hated America and wanted revenge.
Comment posted August 28, 2009 @ 7:29 pm
Funny. Page 6 of the document which is page 12 in the display confirms that KSM said he had bad experiences in the North Carolina and felt the USA was racist becuase of it and that fueled his terrorism.
So red state rednecks prompted KSM to Target the USA on 9/11.
Too funny and sad.
Pingback posted August 31, 2009 @ 2:29 pm
[...] Washington Independent obtained the two CIA documents that former Vice-President Dick Cheney claims prove the efficacy of “enhanced interrogation [...]
Pingback posted August 31, 2009 @ 8:17 pm
[...] for reporters to put that particular claim in its proper context. Just last week, the CIA released two documents that Cheney had been huffing and puffing (and bluffing) about for months, insisting that they would [...]
Pingback posted September 1, 2009 @ 2:40 am
[...] for reporters to put that particular claim in its proper context. Just last week, the CIA released two documents that Cheney had been huffing and puffing (and bluffing) about for months, insisting that they would [...]
Pingback posted September 2, 2009 @ 2:40 pm
[...] Given that the Washington Post editorial board was pretty sympathetic to some of the Bush administration’s more outlandish national security claims, it says a lot that they’re not willing to follow Dick Cheney down his rabbit hole in regard to Attorney General Holder’s decision to re-investigate allegations of abuse — including murder — contained in the recently de-classified CIA Inspector General’s report. [...]
Comment posted September 2, 2009 @ 2:36 pm
“Thanks North Carolina bullies for prompting 9/11″?!?!?!?
Are you serious? “Oh, I was bullied in school so I'm going to plan an attack on a whole nation”. Give me just a small break.
You seem to forget about the attacks on the Cole, the attacks on those very same twin tower buildings a few years earlier, our embassy, etc. Did THOSE happen because someone was insensitive in North Carolina?
Attempting to shift the blame to America because KSM didn't like what someone else did one time at band camp speaks volumes about your view of reality.
You have no idea what the details of the circumstances were yet you're more than ready to lay blame on us. By all means, take the word of a guy who planned the deaths of 3,000 Americans that he 'was bullied' and somehow that was the root cause of this situation.
Idiot.
Pingback posted September 3, 2009 @ 3:10 pm
[...] similarities between the claims made by the officer in the interview and the statements made in the two CIA documents requested by former Vice President Dick Cheney. For example, the interview memo says, “Abu Zubaidah provided information about the modus [...]
Pingback posted September 7, 2009 @ 5:43 pm
[...] CIA reports which Cheney asked to have declassified and which were released in part Monday (posted here) describe a slew of information given up by Al Qaeda operatives like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu [...]
Comment posted September 12, 2009 @ 5:29 pm
can't even read this shit cause they edited too much of it. cia is such a crock of shit
Comment posted September 18, 2009 @ 6:47 pm
Hey ” anon 2 weeks ago “….research is your friend,…”North Carolina” went Blue,… you libs said Israel was the reason for 9/11? You libtards are a joke.
Pingback posted November 26, 2009 @ 8:04 am
[...] the CIA released two of those memos from 2004 and 2005, which had been secret until now. As Spencer Ackerman notes, these memos do [...]
Pingback posted November 22, 2010 @ 10:25 am
[...] those documents turned out to include no such proof — just a lot more cover-your-ass [...]
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