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Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the harsh interrogation techniques banned by the White House did produce significant information that helped the nation in its struggle with terrorists. “High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was attacking this country,” Adm. Dennis C. Blair, the intelligence director, wrote in a memo to his staff last Thursday. Admiral Blair sent his memo on the same day the administration publicly released secret Bush administration legal memos authorizing the use of interrogation methods that the Obama White House has deemed to be illegal torture. Among other things, the Bush administration memos revealed that two captured Qaeda operatives were subjected to a form of near-drowning known as waterboarding a total of 266 times. Admiral Blair’s assessment that the interrogation methods did produce important information was deleted from a condensed version of his memo released to the media last Thursday. Also deleted was a line in which he empathized with his predecessors who originally approved some of the harsh tactics after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. |
Que croire ? 
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Since Congress approved the enhanced interrogation techniques lets stripp their immunity and put them on trial.
The list goes on.
Drôle.
Hétu ne nous a pas parler de cet article du New York Times.
Pourtant sa job consiste à répéter ce qui est écrit dans le New York Times.
Shephard Smith à Freedom Watch: «We are America. We don’t F@£¢ing torture!»
http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/2009/04/how-many-lives-did-we-save-by.html
Brilliant! Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally admits that she knew about waterboarding technique. She was briefed on the technique in 2002 and did not object to the procedure.
But… She claims she had no idea the CIA would use it?
Huh?
Perhaps, she was unsure if that was part of a hygienic procedure for prisonners.
Perhaps the president imagines that nobody cares much about what happens to lawyers, but he has set in motion something neither he nor anyone else can control. Some of the Democrats in Congress, eager now to join the mob, will regret what they cry for. Rep. Nancy Pelosi, for one, was a member of the House intelligence committee and sat in on super-secret briefings after Sept. 11. She concedes that she heard about waterboarding but she doesn’t remember exactly what she heard. Just like Barack Obama sleeping through 20 years of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s rabid sermons, Ms. Pelosi dozed through the briefings. Her colleagues on the intelligence panel say they remember her demanding that the CIA do more to get the « intelligence » to prevent another attack.