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To: combjelly who wrote (507874)	8/25/2009 4:43:36 PM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574589

What a great VP Cheney was, unlike the scum who is VP now. Obama the traitor going after CIA agents, this will piss off americans, I smell one termer

To: combjelly who wrote (507874)	8/25/2009 5:34:04 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574589

No it doesn't. When KSM was caught, he said, 'talk to my lawyer in NY.'

To: combjelly who wrote (507874)	8/25/2009 6:00:23 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574589

Hoekstra Statement on Release of CIA Inspector General Report and Holder Appointment of a Prosecutor for CIA hoekstra.house.gov Washington, Aug 25 - U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, issued the following statement after the Department of Justice released portions of a CIA IG report on terrorist interrogation and Attorney General Eric Holder announced he was naming a prosecutor to investigate CIA officers engaged in counterterrorism: "At the same time the situation in Afghanistan is getting decidedly worse and the Taliban is advancing, the Obama Justice Department is launching an investigation that risks disrupting CIA counterterrorism initiatives. This is the last thing that should happen when the president is sending more troops into harm’s way, and the nation’s top military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, said over the weekend that al-Qaeda still remains a threat to America and our interests abroad. "Attorney General Holder should know that as he increases the focus on America’s past counterterrorism efforts, he is distracting from the CIA’s current counterterrorism efforts. Having recently been forced to drop cases due to prosecutorial misconduct at DOJ, the attorney general argued that these were rare instances and not part of a broader problem. The same can be said of the CIA, where the agency initiated the investigation, reported cases of misconduct and disciplined the officers involved. "It is important to note that incidences of inappropriate, unauthorized conduct cited in the 2004 IG report were dealt with. The unauthorized conduct has been exhaustively reviewed in the past, including by the committee. That the Obama administration apparently is planning to reopen these cases after thorough review by nonpartisan prosecutors raises serious questions. "President Obama has said repeatedly that he wants to move forward, but his Justice Department seems intractably stuck in reverse. The message from the administration is completely confused, and the men and women at the CIA who we ask to protect our nation have been left in the lurch. "The attorney general needs to stop his zealous attempt to make this out to be a systemic problem, when unlike cases such as the 2001 Peru shoot down, the CIA IG did not find evidence that there was a systemic problem. Disgruntled lawyers at DOJ, having lost the debate that America’s counterterrorism efforts should be focused on prevention not prosecution, need to put an end to this bureaucratic turf battle. "The American people have made it clear, they want the CIA to focus on exactly what its mission should be—disrupting and defeating our nation’s enemies and preventing the next attack." Contact: Dave Yonkman 202-225-4401

To: combjelly who wrote (507874)	8/25/2009 6:07:40 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574589

Cheney said in the statement: “The documents released Monday clearly demonstrate that the individuals subjected to Enhanced Interrogation Techniques provided the bulk of intelligence we gained about Al Qaeda."" Notice how the weasel has changed his tune. First he claimed that the techniques gained the information. Now he has softened it to make the claim that the ones that gave the information were subjected to EIT, not that EIT gained the information. So it looks like, despite the use of EIT, conventional techniques yielded the gold. I also find interesting how quickly he moves. He must be worried. At one time, I was all for moving on.....but now I want to nail the bastard good.