Admin officials refuse to talk about torture tapes.
By on Dec 9th, 2007 at 12:59 pm
Admin officials refuse to talk about torture tapes.
On ABC’s This Week, host George Stephanopoulos told his audience, “You should know that I invited the CIA director, the director of national intelligence, and President Bush’s national security adviser to join us today. They all declined.”
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That’s ’cause it’s a secret……
December 9th, 2007 at 1:03 pmMaybe because they would have to lie (somemore) to every question given them…ya think?
Bush/Cheney/CIA
Hague Trials ‘09
Buck Fush
December 9th, 2007 at 1:08 pmThe MSM’s head pops up….blink….blink…..wha?……what’s happening?
No hitting the snooze button, ya wankers.
December 9th, 2007 at 1:12 pmMaybe they decided to stop digging that hole they were in. They are now in hunker down mode hoping that the whole ugly story will simply go poof. Not likely to happen, but not continuing to dig your hole is always the correct decision.
December 9th, 2007 at 1:15 pmSen. John Kyl (R-AZ), who was recently elected to replace Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) as minority Whip declared on CNN’s Wolf Blitzer program that we don’t torture. Wolf jumped in and asked if waterboarding is torture. Kyl responded that we don’t know what happened because the tapes have been destroyed implying that you have to see with your own eyes what has happened so we don’t know if the techniques rose to the level of torture. Lacking that evidence is proof that we don’t torture in Kyl’s eyes.
Never mind that the US Army field manual and the Geneva Conventions single out waterboarding as one of the methods of interrogation that is banned.
Kyl is following Bush’s lead and taking the Republican party down the path of strongly supporting torture. Since Kyl is part of the McCain for President team Sen. McCain needs to explain where he stands on the issue of torture and what role Kyl plays in his campaign. McCain needs to explain where he is different from Bush regarding the conduct of foreign policy and the level of openess and transparency he would bring to the Whitehouse. Right now it looks like not much would change.
December 9th, 2007 at 1:17 pmYup, smells like cover-up.
December 9th, 2007 at 1:31 pmYou can bet the story goes away soon. It’s in no-one’s interest to keep the light on it.
Comment by Frank M
It’s in this country’s best interest because if truth doesn’t prevail soon, we are doomed as a nation. It is not in the Republiscum party’s best interest, though. And that’s all you care about. You care more about your party’s image than you care about the nation you live in. You are a traitor to this country and should not be allowed to live here.
December 9th, 2007 at 1:36 pmThey’re waiting til next week, when they have had time to assemble a more coherent pack of lies to explain it away.
December 9th, 2007 at 2:08 pm5 – that’s what they said about the Watergate break-in, too Frank. And the tapes – and the missing minutes from the tapes.
December 9th, 2007 at 2:09 pmonly if you count golf as more important.
December 9th, 2007 at 2:13 pmas it stands, saying nothing just gives everyone a green light to go ahead and assume the worst about it – don’t know why that would be the preferred approach on a subject like this.
December 9th, 2007 at 2:14 pmwhich is how and why we now have a majority of the country, rightly or not, believing the gov’t was somehow complicit in 9/11
i’m not claiming it – that’s what the polls say.
December 9th, 2007 at 2:15 pmGo directly to jail; do not pass Go; do not collect $200.
December 9th, 2007 at 2:34 pmCondoleezza Rice and Tzipi Livni involved in love affair
A Former Israeli education minister has accused the US secretary of state and Israeli Foreign Minster of having a sexual relationship.
Limor Livnat, who is an Israeli Knesset (parliament) member, has told Benjamin Netanyahu that Condoleezza Rice and Tzipi Livni have sexual affairs.
Meanwhile, an American newspaper has quoted Rice as saying that she is a lesbian and has bought her partner an apartment in New York in order to engage in sexual conduct.
My partner has never had a relationship with a man, Rice said.
http://www.presstv.ir/
December 9th, 2007 at 2:35 pmAll of the members of the Bush – Cheney regime are worthless, lying election-stealing, war-mongering traitors…
December 9th, 2007 at 2:39 pmThey destroyed the tapes because non-torture was documented, being completely legal and all, they just didn’t want to show the legal, completely above board techniques they were employing.
December 9th, 2007 at 2:49 pmMust have had something to do with copyrights or such.
Comment by Anjuna Laguna — December 9, 2007 @ 2:35 pm
Ew. Ick.
December 9th, 2007 at 3:26 pm#5: You can bet the story goes away soon. It’s in no-one’s interest to keep the light on it.
Right. It’s in everyone’s best interest to put their heads in the sand when the Bush administration engages in illegal and immoral activities.
December 9th, 2007 at 3:46 pmBecause this article references This week with George S., I want to expand into a general comment. When George S. became a regular on This Week I was very disturbed because he had just left the Clinton administration which, I felt, was a conflict of interest and that he could not be objective. I have not judged his politics since except last week he dismissed negative commentary about the Rethugs from Katherine Van Der Heuvel; and today he extra clarified commentary from Joe Biden about the Rethugs. Can George be a Rethug?
December 9th, 2007 at 4:28 pm“Illegal, immoral and indispensable.”
WOW. I think your hard drive just melted from a logical fault.
December 9th, 2007 at 4:28 pmI think your hard drive just melted from a logical fault.
Comment by bernard quatermass — December 9, 2007 @ 4:28 pm
Riiiight, Frankie… why did the CIA drop it as an interrogaton technique, then?
December 9th, 2007 at 5:56 pmThey’re refusing to comment at this time so that fox and cnn and the rest of their sh!t spewing networks have some time to ‘catapult the propaganda’.
Don’t-cha sometimes just feel like taxi driver when he’s in the scene
December 9th, 2007 at 7:44 pmwhere he’s saying ‘here’s a man . . . that wasn’t going to take it anymore’.
They are lying PU$$IES and would totally bust themselves if they opened up their lie factory..
December 9th, 2007 at 9:24 pmIf they told us they would have to kill us , ALL OF US , and that would be too gruesome , even for the makers of this pornography.
December 10th, 2007 at 3:37 amBut then ,how does one talk about pornography on a sunday talk show ? Americans ,were supposed to think janet jacksons wardrobe malfunction was too much for national TV .
Such delicate sensibilities ,
December 10th, 2007 at 3:40 am