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Gonzales Says Torture May Be Necessary Again In Future
Obama refuses to rule out “enhanced interrogation”
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Monday, May 4, 2009
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has told an interviewer that he believes the use of torture “may be necessary” in the future, while president Obama has refused to rule out so called “enhanced interrogation” techniques.
The comments came as Gonzales joined another former Attorney General – John Ashcroft – on a panel at American Jewish University, chaired by MSNBC’s Dan Abrams.
Gonzales described the recent decision by the Obama administration to disclose Bush era memos regarding torture of detainees, as providing “important information to the enemy”.
“And then secondly, to say that we have now discontinued these techniques,” he continued, “they may be necessary in the future. And by disclosing it, means you take them off the table and they can never be used again.”
When asked if he still believed techniques such as waterboarding were legal, Gonzales intimated that he did:
“Dan, when I served in the administration, the position of the administration was that under certain conditions and circumstances, this technique would be lawful,” he said.
He also added, “now, my understanding of the legal positions of the department has now been changed. So we can spend all evening debating the merits of a legal opinion of the Department of Justice, which by the way, opinions get changed—I don’t want to say all the time—but it’s not unusual to have opinions change and be modified as conditions change, as administrations change, as the Supreme Court renders a decision, opinions change.”
Full transcript can be read here.
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Meanwhile the president did not rule out future use of torture when questioned on the matter.
Mark Knoller of CBS News put the following question to Obama last week.:
If part of the United States were under imminent threat, could you envision yourself ever authorizing the use of those enhanced interrogation techniques?
Obama replied with the following comments (emphasis added):
So when I made the decision to release these memos and when I made the decision to bar these practices, this was based on consultation with my entire national security team, and based on my understanding that ultimately I will be judged as commander-in-chief on how safe I’m keeping the American people.
That’s the responsibility I wake up with and it’s the responsibility I go to sleep with. And so I will do whatever is required to keep the American people safe. But I am absolutely convinced that the best way I can do that is to make sure that we are not taking short cuts that undermine who we are.
And there have been no circumstances during the course of this first 100 days in which I have seen information that would make me second guess the decision that I have made. OK?
Of course, these comments did not make the nightly news nor any major press reports.
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May 4th, 2009 at 10:06 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-b3j0Q_DTk
During a Recent Interview with sadistic torture advocate:
Alberto Gonz: Well as far as setting aside Geneva Convention goes, I can forsee a time when Americans will once again be wanting Torture…
Reporter: You mean if they finally capture you?
Alberto Gonz: No Comment, No Comment, NO COMMENT! (Runs away back to his bunker 12miles underground with Cheney)
Reporter: There you have it people, you just have to ask the Right Questions!
Carlos1 Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
YOUTUBE HAS REMOVED ALEX JOHNES CHANNEL!
Armed*Serenity}-;='--- Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
go to this assholes site and educate him everyone, he may or may not have something to do with it, either way he is in need of guidance. http://www.youtube.com/AmericaHowAreYa
Sorry dont know how to make hyperlinks here.
couple of things Reply:
May 5th, 2009 at 11:03 am
I don’t know what in the hell is going on with this flu but I got some MMS at http://www.mmsdr.com and I feel better knowing that I have it. Do a little research and you’ll freak out. It’s only $25.00 and it kills viruses and pathogens…… I am not associated with this product. I just want people to know about it..
Peace.
Michael
http://www.thegrandawakening.com
May 4th, 2009 at 10:17 am
We’re teaching young men how to kill, maim, and torture…
We hate each other for no reason at all…
The War between US all Must FALL
reconmarine Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 12:47 pm
uhh, your saying this on a website that constantly blames Jews for everything with out any sort of evidence or facts to back it up???…..And who do you want to stop hating who again?
The War between US all must FALL. Is that a hidden message or are you new to the English language?
gravel kucinich paul nader Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
911 Sham?
AIPAC Bankers?
Israel-first, dual-national?
Extortion, blackmail, & bribery?
dues ex organica Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Are you serious? Alex blames jews? Ha, that’s absurd. Alex has never said anything remotely racist ever.
I’m not sure which is more ignorant…
…Alex blames the jews or…
…Alex is controlled by the jews.
We can see what you are doing. You are trying to be divisive because our movement is united to push for the arrest of the bankers, who have robbed us all, and who are the real racists.
meanjean Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Hello, again, Recon. Pls check out some of the work on this site:
http://www.nylonmanden.dk; I refer you to the excellent and brilliant writings of Philip Jones.
Also, you can research further on his references as listed.
When you can come up with an intelligent comment, I will be glad to spar with you.
Kokoapelli Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
If you’d've read the article, this interview wuz held at the American Jewish University and the audience “regularly applauded” the torturerz advocates, advocating torture in the name ov “public service”.
Connect the dots.
VIVA!!!
May 4th, 2009 at 10:32 am
“Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s Liberty Teeth and keystone under INDEPENDENCE … From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable . . . The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that is good” (George Washington)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5irHyoRNcRY
With “friends” like Alberto Gonzales who needs enemies?
May 4th, 2009 at 10:37 am
“Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s Liberty Teeth and keystone under INDEPENDENCE … From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events, occurrences, and tendencies prove that to insure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable . . . The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that is good” (George Washington)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5irHyoRNcRY
With “friends” like Alberto Gonzales who needs enemies?
May 4th, 2009 at 10:59 am
We hate each other ’cause of race and religion {Race and Religion}
We hate each other ’cause of class and position
We want to know why is Love so hard to come by? [So hard to come by]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP0_DqxhxHE
Why was torture forbidden under the Constitution? Maybe they wanted Justice For All and not just those privalidged enough to be considered worthy of fairness.
May 4th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses
Evil minds that plot destruction
Sorcerers of death’s construction
In the fields are bodies burning
As the war machine keeps turning
Death and hatred to mankind
Poisoning their brainwashed minds, oh lord yeah
Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight
They leave that all to the Poor
Time will tell on their power minds
Making War just for FUN
Treating people just like pawns in chess
Wait til the judgement day comes
Armed*Serenity}-;='--- Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Yeah
now in darkness, world stops turning
ashes where the bodies burning
no more war pigs have the power
hand of God has struck the hour
day of judgment God is calling
on there knees the war pigs crawling
begging mercies for their sin
Satan laughing spreads his wings, oh lord yeah
May 4th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Enough is enough, why isn’t there an International Bench Warrant for Gonzales, Cheney, Rice and Bush?
reconmarine Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
because they didnt do half the shit your retarded ass probably thinks they did……AND, they kept you alive. If you wern’t such a huge VAGINA and conspiracy theorists, you would realize that……..
Jim Zinc Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
What charm school did you go to jarhead?
Patrick Henry Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
Yea! They kept me alive by leaving the southern border open for any terrorists to simply walk into America and attack us if they truly wanted to do so. The fact no major attacks happened after 911 is no proof that Bush and Cheney did anything to protect us, considering the complete lack of security at the border, and the nearly complete lack of control over the issuance of visas. The torture could only have had one goal: establish a connection between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein to justify ex post facto the invasion of a secular state in a war against radical Islam.
The fact of the matter is that Bush and Cheney invaded Iraq so that Big Oil could control the price of oil futures, one of the easiest and most lucrative ways to make massive capital with limited financial investment. Saddam had been using the oil for food program to dump oil on the world market at differing prices, such that the price fixing major oil companies could no longer control the price of oil futures, a major source of their income. The oil from Iraq needed to be cut off. At the expense of the real war against the real enemy, we invaded a secular state, turning it into another Islamic state, and put the nuclear enabled Pakistan in real danger of being overrun by the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
Protecting my ass, reconmarine, would have been to realign the U.S. with Saddam Hussein, (we sold him the poisonous gas in the first place after all, and did not object when he used it on the rebellious Kurds), rearm him, and use his Baath Party as the centerpiece of our bulkhead against Islamic radicalism in the Mideast as we had always done before. Then, we could have finished our mission in Afghanistan, stabilized Pakistan, and it would all be over by now. But that was not in the interest of the multinational oil companies, which we must pay and die for, but which seem to think they owe us nothing in return.
Stop being a dupe. Our most precious resource is our fighting men and women. Why should they be fighting for the interests of multinationals that are not even based in the U.S. anymore. Let them raise armies from the countries in which they have moved their industrial bases. Let’s see how fast they want to come back to the U.S. with their jobs when Indians, Pakistani’s and Chinese troops are used to protect their interests. Meanwhile, American blood and money should stay in America, protecting Americans, not British Petroleum and Nike and the like.
Jim Zinc Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
I would like to know what kind of a car the 9/11 terrorist left at Dulles Airport?
dues ex organica Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Just keep sucking the government’s diseased puss filled tit…
…and you’ll see just how much they love you someday…
…when you and your family are dying from their bio weapon release.
meanjean Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Well said, Jim; as for you, Recon – You are a fool, as usual. Conspiracy comes from the Latin – conspirare: to plot together. So when 2 or more people get together to plot against someone or something, that is a conspiracy. And the Illuminati have been plotting against the human race for centuries.
And when they come for you and drag your sorry ass away, you will regret that you did not examine the clear evidence all around you.
standing bull Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
hay reconmarine
You should say the American people are not aware of half the crimes that Bush and Cheney have committed, because then you would be telling the truth. Instead of defending the people who have destroyed this country, look at the facts, you may learn something.Torture is done in countries like old Russia, Japan and Nazi Germany not in the USA because were better then they are , we don’t have to reduce ourselves to there level. Bush administration used torture not as a means to end terrorism ,but to create terrorists to prolong the war. Your posts indicate that your not a person that can be enlightened or worse yet you may be Dick Cheney.
meanjean Reply:
May 5th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Well and thoughtfully said, standing bull.
May 4th, 2009 at 11:31 am
As far as complicit goes, it is pretty obvious at this point. If Torture is against the law and it is something the is beyond the scope of acceptable, then why would Obama protect such disgusting actions? If Obama doesnt proscecute then you have your answer. Who is bought and paid for? At this point the Dems are just as dirty as those they point thier fingers at, JUST AS DIRTY.
Narrator: The United States of America: rich, diverse, well-fed, proud, free. The United States of America: poor, hungry, scared, oppressed. There are those who say the United States is an empire, a dictatorship possessing fascistic elements. There are others who insist it’s a democracy, or a representative republic: the realized dream of the founding fathers. Can both assessments be correct? How can the nation known as the United States of America be both? How can there be two totally different views of the same thing?
May 4th, 2009 at 11:36 am
Its over today
The heat is gone, time is gone
F for fake
I feel no wrong, hide no wrong
I love this place, the lights
Under this face, so dry
Only way to change, give yourself away
Don’t be ashamed, next in line
Close one eye, just walk by
In these days
Im breathing stone, crying alone
Ill win this race
Ill leave alone, arrive alone
Love this place, the lights
Under this face, so dry
Stripped to the bone
I did no wrong
Truth is my name
Give yourself away
F for fake [4 times]
Give yourself away
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-b3j0Q_DTk
May 4th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
YES ALBERTO, THIS TIME I AGREE WITH YOU:
WE MIGHT HAVE TO TORTURE YOU , DICK CHENEY AND CONDI RICE TO GET THE TRUTH
OUT AND IF YOU STILL REFUSE I RECOMMEND A HOT BOWL FRESHLY COOKED PASTA BE
PUT ON YOUR CHEST.
I HEAR ITS TASTY
Aussie Emu Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Pinched my words, but I would add a few to the list.
May 4th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
If Seedy Gonzales wants to play torturer so bad, he should call up Cheney for a little S&M session.
May 4th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Now remember, if we torture, guess what happens when YOU get captured?
dues ex organica Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
exactly…
May 4th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5lI7q71L7g
Discussion in a ‘Hidden’ bunker somewhere in the US recently:
Cheney: Alberto get off my bunk there is not enough for both of us in the Bunker 12 miles underground
Alberto: What are you saying, I supported your “Dark Lord” propaganda
Cheney: And you were paid for it, now its time for you to be ‘Out There’ feeling the heat…someone is going to have to take the blame and it sure the HELL aint gonna be me…
Alberto: But how am I a “War Criminal” when I was just repeating everything you told me
Cheney: Oh by the why you must answer “No Comment” about where the Hell my Bunker is located or I will have to take you hunting…
joe covello Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
cheney’s mother sucks cocks in hell
hid Reply:
May 4th, 2009 at 5:12 pm
ohh yeah we will need it in future alright for u BASTARDS, to get You to talk after we screw u ass over
May 4th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
reconmarine …. you complete prick go and do us and the green lobby group a favour stop wasteing are air please go and kill yourself and do it now …cunt
May 4th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Alberto Gonzales is an arrogant, pompous ass, SOB (.)
arrogant
Main Entry: ar·ro·gant
Pronunciation: \-gənt\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin arrogant-, arrogans, present participle of arrogare
Date: 14th century
1 : exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one’s own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner
2 : proceeding from or characterized by arrogance
pompous ASS
Main Entry: pomp·ous ass Pronunciation:\ˈpäm-pəs\ASS
Function: adjective
Date: 15th century
1 : excessively elevated or ornate
2 : having or exhibiting self-importance : arrogant
3 : relating to or suggestive of pomp : magnificent
— pomp·ous·ly adverb
— pomp·ous·ness noun
— pomp·ous·ness ASS noun see donkey
son of a bitch
Main Entry: son of a bitch
Pronunciation: \ˈsən-ə-və-ˌbich also ˈsəm-ˌbich; as an interj ˌsən-ə-və-ˈbich\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural sons of bitch·es \ˌsən-zə-ˈbi-chəz\NAZI
Date: 1671
sometimes vulgar : bastard 3 —sometimes used interjectionally to express surprise or disappointment
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May 4th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
you tube “Alex Jones” channel gone!!! boycot YOU TUBE
May 4th, 2009 at 7:21 pm
Sign me up and torture away so I may sleep well from the jihadist way
May 4th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
Yeah, Speedy…
Maybe IN YOUR CASE
torture will be used in the future.
You sure as F’n hell DESERVE IT!
May 4th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
The “American Jewish University”, huh? Where the audience “regularly applauded” theze Minionz ov Evil az they discussed Brutality over Humanity? & having the ballz to say it’s all in the name ov “public service”?!? NOT IN MY NAME!!!
Start takin’ namez, and prepare.
VIVA!!!
May 4th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Gonzales is right
we may have to torture the NWO scientists [and all other guilty NWO globalist cronies]that are cooking up and releasing these weaponized flus!
May 5th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
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