Obama looking to ban harsh interrogations The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Presidentelect Barack Obama is preparing to prohibit the use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques by ordering the CIA to follow military rules for questioning prisoners, according to two U.S. officials familiar with drafts of the plans. Still under debate is whether to allow exceptions in extraordinary cases. The proposal Obama is considering would require all CIA interrogators to follow conduct outlined in the U.S. Army Field Manual, the officials said. The plans would also have the effect of shutting down secret “black site” prisons around the world where the CIA has questioned terrorism suspects, with all future interrogations taking place inside American military facilities. However, Obama’s changes may not be absolute. His advisers are considering adding a classified loophole to the rules that could allow the CIA to use some interrogation methods not specifically authorized by the Pentagon, the officials said. They said the intent is not to use that as an opening for possible use of waterboarding, an interrogation technique that simulates drowning. The new rules would abandon a part of President George W. Bush’s counterterrorism policy that has been condemned internationally. Bush has defended his policies by pointing to the fact that the nation has gone more than seven years without another terrorist attack on its soil. Obama spokeswoman Brooke Anderson did not have an immediate comment Friday about the drafted plans, which the two offi - cials discussed only on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly. No final decisions have been made about how to...............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar00203
There goes any way to get intel from these terrorists and now the government will have a real problem getting the information they need to protect us from future attacks.
First published in print: Friday, January 23, 2009
The first step in restoring U.S. credibility in the world is to hold accountable those responsible for the torture policies this country has implemented. If not, we will never gain respect in the world to come. We will be no better than the terrorists themselves.
I got sick to my stomach when I heard those in the Oval Office defend waterboarding as being in the national security interest. Imagine, our brave troops being waterboarded/tortured because of a once-acceptable American policy.
I'm sure glad that you weren't responsible for protecting this country James. I also assume that you condone beheading of American citizens on TV too. There are times, not all the time, when tactics like water boarding are justified but only when the person is a high ranking terrorist or one who has information vital to saving the lives due to an impending attack. If a terrorist is caught and has knowledge of a nuclear attack on a large city which would kill a million people what would you do James offer the terrorist a cup of coffee and cigar?
I suppose that people like James think that terrorists that be-head AMERICANS should be entitled to all of the freedoms and legal systems that we have to offer. They probably would have demanded a trial by jury, AMERICAN STYLE, for the terrorists, if they had survived, that blew up the twin towers. I'm sure the families and friends that lost loved ones in the 911 TERRORIST ATTACKS would have gone along with that.
Everyone that seems to speak of 'equal justice for terrorists' did not have their mother, father, daughter, son, husband or wife burn to death or jump out of a window on 911!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
bring them flowers and a mug of chai with a peace sign on it.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
Let's ask the one's that have lost their loved ones on 911 or perhaps Daniel Pearl's wife and new son he never got to see since the TERRORISTS beheaded him before his son was even born....and see if they would want to bring them flowers!!
How quickly everyone forgets the PAIN! Where's Jane Fonda when ya need her, huh?
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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