Comments on: FBI Zubaydah Interrogator Calls George Bush a Liar: “No Actionable Intelligence Gained from Using Enhanced Interrogation Techniques”

By: emerson

emerson — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:40:15 +0000

this was from 2006. Interesting memo mention from 2002 near end.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....02_pf.html

By: emerson

emerson — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:13:36 +0000

and anytime Bush & Cheney needed to find some balls, Addington shows up. Torture hits his sweet spot. When this all comes spewing out, Addington will be a major orchestrator of the pain plan.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:10:51 +0000

I think what’s missing is that Rahm & Co., including Reidless Harry, are trying to avoid investigations, so there’s nothing yet to cooperate with. Which suggests there’s no one to whom to disclose what these people know.

Whistleblowers talking ahead of the political will to hear them face enormous obstacles, not to mention an as yet unreliable administration that hasn’t shown it has the stomach to support them. Dawn Johnsen hasn’t been approved yet at OLC and Hans von Spakovsky’s old haunts at DoJ haven’t demonstrated they’ve been resuscitated yet either.

By: Jane Hamsher

Jane Hamsher — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:31:21 +0000

Yeah no shit. “Hi I work for the State Department, and in the course of my work day I embezzled $50 million dollars, and now they want it back. I expect the government to pay my legal expenses.”

By: tjbs

tjbs — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:11:48 +0000

We knew they were torturing and they let out just enough to shut up the entire country for eight years while they made a killing off the killing.
Notice they’re not able to sell there hate and fear anymore.

Next false flag op will destroy this country completely.
People will line up to torture the pseudo bad guys again.

By: Fern

Fern — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:54:17 +0000

Checked some German news sources and haven’t seen anything there yet.

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:32:36 +0000

Will Paul Krugman get an apology from the Times, for directing him not to use the word “liar” in the same column as the words “Bush” or “Cheney”?

By: earlofhuntingdon

earlofhuntingdon — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:30:06 +0000

Then there’s this bit of news, from an Amy Goodman interview with Mark Benjamin from Salon.com:

The Attorney General has announced that not only that, the government will pay the legal fees for anybody who is brought up on any charges anywhere in the world or has to go before Congress. They will be provided attorneys.

“Innocent until proven guilty” is the centuries old standard we’re trying to work out way back to. At some point in an investigation, however, it becomes clear that the government and its current or former employees have a conflict of interest and continuing to provide legal advice or representation is wholly inappropriate.

In that interview with Amy Goodman, Benjamin points out something discussed here. That Obama seems to be giving (qualified) cover to a whole group of potential witnesses or wrongdoers without getting anything in return. At a minimum, the quid pro quo should be full disclosure and cooperation in government inquiries. That he hasn’t apparently asked for such things suggest he’s still hoping no one will notice that three-foot mound of dust under his carpet.

By: Knut

Knut — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:21:55 +0000

Whoops! I mispoke. They just mentioned it. The dam broke.

By: Knut

Knut — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:20:54 +0000

None of this has hit the French press yet, which surprises me. I’m listening to France-Inter right now (8 pm edition), and not a whisper, which means it probably wasn’t in the Monde today (I didn’t pick it up). This story will get legs when the European press pick it up. To my knowledge, they haven’t yet. Probably too terrible, and probably because they want to be very sure it’s true before they jump in.