TagsTagsUnfortunately, it's no longer shocking to hear Republican presidential candidates enthusiastically endorse the use of torture to gain information from terror suspects. At Saturday's debate, the audience erupted in applause each time a candidate promised to waterboard the hell out of Al Qaeda. After that spectacle, Sen. John McCain was moved ...
John McCain, Waterboarding, Torture, Republican Party, Debate
John McCain has a piece in the Washington Post today, definitively refuting the Republican talking point that torture helped find Osama bin Laden: Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture. Former attorney general Michael Mukasey recently claimed that “the intelligence that led to bin Laden . . . began with a ...
British intelligence officials said yesterday that there was no evidence to support George Bush's claim that the use of waterboarding had helped to foil terrorist plots. David Davis, the Conservative former shadow home secretary, said: "For [Bush] to demonstrate the use of torture saved British lives he has to demonstrate ...
I posted this as a comment in our earlier thread about George W. Bush's acknowledgment that he approved waterboarding for terror suspects after 9/11, but refused to consider it "torture." I thought it might be of interest to our general audience, as a look at why my opinions have changed ...
George W. Bush, Waterboarding, Torture, Little Green Footballs
One of the interesting revelations in George W. Bush's soon-to-be-released memoir is that he personally approved the use of waterboarding. In his book, titled "Decision Points," Bush recounts being asked by the CIA whether it could proceed with waterboarding Mohammed, who Bush said was suspected of knowing about still-pending terrorist ...
At RedState: Jesus would have waterboarded. It’s likely even Jesus would have OK’d water boarding if it would have saved his Mom. He would’ve done the same to save his Dad, or any one of His disciples. Excuse me while I pick up my jaw from the floor. Among the other ...
Waterboarding, Jesus Christ, Christianity, Redstate, social conservatism, Fundamentalism
Ranting “conservative” talk show host Erich “Mancow” Muller decided he would prove that waterboarding isn’t torture by undergoing the interrogation method himself. It didn’t turn out the way he expected: Mancow Waterboarded, Admits It’s Torture. Listeners had the chance to decide whether Mancow himself or his co-host, Chicago radio personality Pat ...
Obviously, Nancy Pelosi can’t continue to stick to her story that she was “never told” that the CIA was using waterboarding on a few detained terrorists, now that documents have been released showing that she was briefed on it. So now she says the CIA lied to her. House Speaker Nancy ...
By opening the door to prosecutions of CIA officials, President Obama is relinquishing US sovereignty in favor of international law, and the United Nations is salivating at the prospect of prosecuting American citizens: UN torture envoy: US must prosecute Bush lawyers. VIENNA – The U.S. is obligated by a United ...
It looks like the Obama administration is getting ready to break their promise not to prosecute CIA officials: Holder: ‘follow law’ in US interrogation probe. WASHINGTON, April 22 (Reuters) - Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday said the Justice Department will follow the law wherever it leads in probing U.S. ...
This breaking news is going to drive the left completely crazy. (A short drive.) WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Thursday informed CIA officials who used waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics on terror suspects that they will not be prosecuted, senior administration officials told The Associated Press. Even before ...
CNN’s Christiane Amanpour does a story on the murder of more than two million Cambodians by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge, and compares it to the United States using waterboarding on three top Al Qaeda terrorists to get information about imminent attacks. Yes, really. Two million Cambodians killed on one side, three terrorists ...
LGF, CNN, Media Bias, Amanpour, Leftists, Torture, Waterboarding
President Bush has vetoed the Democrat-sponsored bill that would ban the CIA from using “harsh interrogation techniques” on terrorists like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: Bush Announces Veto of Waterboarding Ban. Always keep in mind, when the media and the left are hyperventilating over waterboarding, that the technique has been used on exactly ...
Andrew McCarthy makes a great point about the absurdly inflated waterboarding controversy. Let’s take a step back. Credible reporting — which is not addressed in the attorney general’s letter — indicates that waterboarding has been used on no more than three of the thousands of detainees the United States has ...