ABC = Treasonist traitors!

TrickyDick on May 1, 2009 at 1:50 PM

I don’t like the fact that ABC ran the report but it is the Senate report in which Mitchell and Jensen’s names appear. ABC’s fault is the way in which the information was spun, particularly in light of the fact that the information is readily available through the Senate report.

I wonder what Valerie Plame thinks of this

ToddonCapeCod on May 1, 2009 at 1:07 PM

Frankly, who cares what vacuous Val thinks of this.

The democrats want it to be expressed as getting revenge. The democrat investigation of waterboarding is merely revenge driven. They are ambivalent on the act. remember they are pro abortion.
Abortion is nastier and creates more pain than waterboarding can. It is also very bloody.

the CIA hired people with no interrogation experience because expert interrogators don’t torture.

sesquipedalian on April 30, 2009 at 10:44 PM

Apparently those “expert interrogators” methods were unsuccessful in obtaining information – otherwise “enhanced interrogation” techniques wouldn’t have been required.

orange on May 1, 2009 at 10:53 AM

The names were out there…but the faces and locations?

I imagine a mass exodus from the CIA in 3, 2, 1…..

txag92 on April 30, 2009 at 10:06 PM

And when the next attack on American soil happens the Left will be crying Why didn’t our Intelligence community protect us?

Motto of the Obama Era.

Fifth Columnists, all.

Hope they like that REAL bright light in their office window.

CONSERVATIVE: “God helps those that help themselves” (we understand this as an instruction to work hard and provide for your own through diligence)

LIBERAL: same passage as above – they believe this means HELP YOURSELF to whatever you want, whenever you want, no matter how vile or silly, with no thought to eventual consequences of if their actions cause harm to others

Exit question (to steal a phrase): How does one reconcile support of waterboarding with a self-proclaimed Christianity? Was Jesus flogged in the temple, or just subjected to harsh interrogation techniques? Was crucifixion the ultimate “stress position”?

What in the world does religion have to do with this? Nevertheless, I suggest you study Christianity a bit more deeply before pretending to be able to use Jesus’ crucifixion as an analogy. None of your points even come close to being relevant or logical

Furthermore, within the body of the report Jensen, Mitchell and JPRA’s Colonel John “Randy” Moulton, make note of the specific limitations of their skill sets relative to the needs of the govt to disgorge information from the bad guys.

The fact that Jensen and Mitchell are named in the unclassified report also makes it clear that Jensen and Mitchell were not outed by ABC but rather by the senatorial staffers who drafted the report.

Jensen and Mitchell are unfortunately just more names added to the list who will pay for the sins of the Bush administration while it was trying to get its arms around a massive asymetrical war that was dumped on its doorstep by the previous administration.

Remember the time that ABC and the rest of the liberal media, not too mention the Left-O-Sphere, where in a high dudgeon over Valerie Plame’s outing? They wanted investigations, impeachments, and jailings. They said she, and the United States, were……

“The use of these tactics tends to increase resistance on the part of the detainee to cooperating with us. So they have the exact opposite effect of what you want,” said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich).

Hmm, it persuaded KSM to give up the goods.

not really knowing what they were doing

Sounds like an administration I know…

Don’t think this isn’t a coordinated vendetta.

Is it fair to torch their anonymity given the hint of malfeasance in their waterboarding expertise having been “misrepresented?”

If this information was classified, then no and they need to be prosecuted, but that won’t happen with this new administration.

One of my main problems with President Bush was his complete failure to go after and prosecute not only those leaking classified information, but also media organizations that knowingly published this classified information against the law.