The Obama administration and senior national-security officials are reviewing whether to release additional Central Intelligence Agency memos on interrogation methods, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has requested that the administration declassify additional CIA memos that he said would show the tactics worked.
Mr. Gibbs said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the review process would take about three weeks.
President Obama banned the use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques immediately after taking office. This month, his administration released classified memos from 2002 and 2005 that revealed new details about the interrogations, including a detailed description of waterboarding, or simulated drowning, and descriptions of lesser-known methods used on detainees, such as slamming them into a wall and the use of insects.
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After some initial confusion, the White House clarified late last week that it opposes an independent commission to examine the previous administration’s interrogation policy.
But proponents of such a plan continued to call Sunday for more investigation.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy, (D., Vt.) said he wants a nonpartisan or bipartisan commission to look at the issue, similar to the 9-11 Commission formed after the 2001 terrorist attacks. “I know some people say, ‘Let’s turn the page.’ Frankly, I’d like to read the page before we turn it,” he said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
April 27th, 2009 at 9:21 am
more memos! like these? http://www.propublica.org/special/missing-memos
April 27th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Just another example of how weak this country is becoming…….
Dont dump water on the poor terrorists…….Bombs are ok, water….No fucking way…..
Mothers of America………………………………Is this OK?
recon-habitually runs away Reply:
April 27th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
you act like all of them are “terrorists”. you barbaric fool. and again pussy, why do you keep running?:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/se.....ommit.html
April 27th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
What you doing reading stories like this when there’s a very convenient swine flue FEAR propogating the internet as fast as the flue itself?
swine flu is just that, fear based bio enginerred.
What seems suspicious to me is the hybrid origin of the viral fragments found in H1N1 influenza. According to reports in the mainstream media (which has no reason to lie about this particular detail), this strain of influenza contains viral code fragments from:
• Human influenza
• Bird Flu from North America
• Swine flu from Europe
• Swine flu from Asia
This is rather astonishing to realize, because for this to have been a natural combination of viral fragments, it means an infected bird from North America would have had to infect pigs in Europe, then be re-infected by those some pigs with an unlikely cross-species mutation that allowed the bird to carry it again, then that bird would have had to fly to Asia and infected pigs there, and those Asian pigs then mutated the virus once again (while surviving and preserving the European swine and bird flu elements) to become human transmittable, and then a human would have had to catch that virus from the Asian pigs, in Mexico! and spread it to others. (This isn’t the only explanation of how it could have happened, but it is one scenario that gives you an idea of the complexity of such a thing happening naturally).
i.e. this is a bio attack but for what purpose?
A: look at how many readers are reading these ‘totrure’ and ‘credit crisis’ stories (i.e. low) and you will see that the desired effect has been accomplished.
just don’t take the vaccine they give you – take jim humbles MMS instead which is 10 times more powerful than and big pharma con job treatment with shit loads of side effects.
April 28th, 2009 at 5:40 am
we should name this little criminal ass game something!! come-on truthists
April 28th, 2009 at 9:14 am
An important quote; makes a lot of sense with the headlines we see today.
“The world Zionist movement should not be neglectful of the dangers of Pakistan to it. And Pakistan now should be its first target, for this ideological State is a threat to our existence. And Pakistan, the whole of it, hates the Jews and loves the Arabs. “This lover of the Arabs is more dangerous to us than the Arabs themselves. For that matter, it is most essential for the world Zionism that it should now take immediate steps against Pakistan.
“Whereas the inhabitants of the Indian peninsula are Hindus whose hearts have been full of hatred towards Muslims, therefore, India is the most important base for us to work there from against Pakistan. “It is essential that we exploit this base and strike and crush Pakistanis, enemies of Jews and Zionism, by all disguised and secret plans.”
-David Ben Gurion, the first Israeli Prime Minister.His words, as printed in the Jewish Chronicle,9 August 1967