There has NEVER been a majority of the Inspectors General who have objected to information being withheld from them to the extent that they can not do their work. You so quickly forget that the invasion you moan about was openly debated, transparent and voted for by the Dems who had a right and did ask many questions. Try to remember the facts. What we have now is nothing like what you have suggested. |
Reasonable people disagree as to whether waterboarding is torture. I think I read that we only waterboarded three people. This is a straw man. |
As in most areas of life, the other guy's sins are monstrous and ours are minuscule. |
The administration was not "transparent" about WMD. And don't give me the excuse that the CIA was to blame. They work for the President, and Bush's own father once ran the thing. And they deliberately attacked dissent on the subject. |
Skipping over the water boarding thing for a minute, there was still Abu Ghraib, we trained Shiite squads in torture in Iraq, Frago 242, what we did at Camp Nama, the CIA camps that we ran in no less than 54 countries as part of our extraordinary rendition program, and the people we handed over to other countries in order to do our torture for us. If you reply with "Source?" then you might as well concede the point. If this is legitimately unfamiliar to you, then you owe it to yourself and your country to do your own reading. |
We were safer under Bush. He at least wasn't naive . |
You think extraordinary rendition no long happens? You do realize this is the same CIA that has admitted to spying on congressional staff. What in God's green earth do you think they're doing to America's sworn enemies? Giving them a tickle torture? |
Obama uses all the same stuff, including Guantanamo - he just 'wishes' he didn't have to . That doesn't make him or the people who voted for him better. In some ways, makes them worse. |
They are no longer allowed to do rendition to third parties in order to torture them. executive order 13491. It revoked Bush's 13440. |
"uses all the same stuff"? Is that the technical term? |
update: http://nation.foxnews.com/2014/10/13/army-refuses-release-findings-bergdahl-investigation
Findings complete. Will not be released before the election. |
Well, they probably aren't declassifying the House Intelligence Committee report on Benghazi -- the one which is going to exonerate the administration -- until afterward, either. So call it even. |
You been listening to Gowdy on this? Don't be so sure |
I'm sure. |