Posts Tagged ‘extreme measures’
Cheney’s request to declassify documents: denied
Lots of enhanced interrogation technique (EIT) information floating about news circles today, so I’ll add one more. After the release of the four so-called torture memo a few weeks ago, Cheney officially requested the Obama administration release two memos that showed what intelligence was gathered from detainees after the use of the EITs. The request…
Read MoreFace the Nation – Schieffer thinks waterboarding similar to chopping off heads
I’m not going to let this stand. Does the left really think that if they keep saying it over and over again it will be true? Bob Shieffer interviewed Vice President Dick Cheney on Face the Nation Sunday morning and tried – once again – to warp the Bush administration’s enhanced interrogation techniques into being…
Read MoreEnsign to Matthews: We put our Navy SEALs through worse
Any investigation into the Bush Administration authorization of enhanced interrogation will center on the definition of torture. The left will try to define torture as anything above a coercive conversation and in so doing will be able to position Bush officials as law breakers or “war criminals”. The jumping off point will be a Carl Levin report…
Read MoreGame on! Bush torture memo prosecutions NOT off the table UPDATE: Thompson Speaks
UPDATE: Fred Thompson weighs in on the whole matter here. (via instapundit)
Read MoreTorture memos: NOT a dark and painful chapter in our history
Twenty-four hours have passed since the so-called torture memos have been released and as I expected, it’s not a story that has gone viral. Plenty of coverage, but not oh-my-God kind of coverage.
Read MoreInterrogation memos released – PDF scans available
I do not have time to review these right now, but my guess is that nothing will send shock waves through the media or anywhere else for that matter. Personally, I hope that the current administration would use these techniques if needed. Again, they are extreme measures, not torture. The intelligence community is certainly not…
Read MoreFederal court order results in release of Bush interrogation memos
The Obama administration will release interrogation memos written by Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel lawyers during President George W. Bush’s administration. A federal court required the Obama administration to release them or to provide a good reason to withhold them in response to an ACLU lawsuit. My guess is that the documents may drop…
Read MoreGuantanamo detainees in the US and enhanced interrogation techniques
Two bits of news from President Obama’s intelligence chief and attorney general in the past week. First, the administration is considering releasing some inmates here in the United States. Second, the Obama administration is considering “enhanced interrogation techniques” when questioning terrorists.
Read MoreBush administration wiretap plan good to go
Remember that question on This Week with George Stephanopoulos about wiretapping and the prosecution of George W. Bush’s gravest crimes? With about 120 hours left in the current administration, a federal intelligence court has ruled that it is perfectly fine for the Executive branch to wiretap/intercept international phone calls and e-mails without a specific court order, even if American citizens…
Read More24 … in real life
I’ll have more to say on this tomorrow. George W. Bush responding to a question from Brit Hume on Fox News Sunday today … would the nation be in danger if the next president did not have all interrogation tools at his disposal? The president’s answer is critical and I think Obama understands this already.…
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