Hayden: CIA will follow waterboarding ban if passed.
By on Feb 29th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Hayden: CIA will follow waterboarding ban if passed.
In a memo to agency employees, CIA Director Michael Hayden said that he opposed legislation in Congress that would place the agency’s interrogation program under the dictates of the U.S. Army Field Manual, but would follow the law. “If the Intelligence Authorization Bill becomes law, these procedures will be taken off the board for American interrogators,” wrote Hayden. The law, according to Hayden, “will have a direct impact on our ability to gather intelligence and to detect and prevent future attacks.”
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Don’t believe everything a CIA director tells you.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:01 am“Plus, we’ve gotten hooked on it. It’s such a sexual thrill…”
February 29th, 2008 at 10:03 amSUUUUUUUUURE.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:03 amThat’s good to hear. The CIA is so well known for it’s truthfulness.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:05 amthe key words to his claim: “If the Intelligence Authorization Bill becomes law”
Director Hayden knows he’s got sufficient votes to derail an up-or-down vote on the measure, so he can make all the claims in the world he wants about how he’ll “follow the law, IF it becomes law”.
Republican extremists are doing their best to destory this great nation by emulating our enemies!
February 29th, 2008 at 10:06 amall these assclowns that think water-TORTURE (boarding) is not illegal, lets water-TORTURE (board) them till the brink of…. who cares! death insanity…..
February 29th, 2008 at 10:06 amal – CIA – duh
February 29th, 2008 at 10:09 amAnd we’re supposed to consider that statement truthful because….?
February 29th, 2008 at 10:11 amIs it too much to ask that people who say things like how the inability to waterboard “will have a direct impact on our ability to gather intelligence and to detect and prevent future attacks†tell us how waterboarding has actually detected and prevented attacks in the past? Heck — just give us ONE example!
February 29th, 2008 at 10:17 amEver notice how officials in the Bush administration seem to act like they’re doing us a favor by agreeing to do what the law requires of them?
February 29th, 2008 at 10:26 amBut we do reserve the right to sodomize detainees with glowsticks.
-The CIA guy who looks like the dad in That 70’s Show.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:29 amYeah, right.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:29 amNudge, Nudge
Wink, Wink
Ho Hum
Anyone see on “Countdown” last night that some corporation down in Texas I believe took some workers out to a hillside on one of those assertiveness excursions and the head guy had one of the new employees held down and actually waterboarded the unsuspecting guy! The boss then allegedly began yelling at the onlooking workers during the assault something to the effect of, “See the effort andenergy he’s giving to try to breathe? This is the kind of effort I expect to see from all of you at work.”
Heckuva job, Bushie!
February 29th, 2008 at 10:35 amwaterboarding and torture are ALREADY against the law, and have been since treaties ratified by the Senate become US law.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:45 amWow, don’t we all feel so much better now that we know that our CIA director will follow the law.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:52 amThat’s good to hear. The CIA is so well known for it’s truthfulness.
Comment by FearandSmear
Shouldn’t that be “truthiness”?
February 29th, 2008 at 10:53 amOf course… My Lapel Pin Flag got in the way and I made a typo…
February 29th, 2008 at 10:57 amWill he promise to stop murdering if and when a law is passed making murder illegal?
WTF? Torture is already illegal dickweed!
February 29th, 2008 at 10:59 amI just love the idea that the CIA director would send a memo to the spooks saying that, yes, we will follow the law. It’s so perverse. Also, I mean, how many CIA memos do they leak every year? It feels more like a PR exercise. They’re conducting psy-ops on the American public.
February 29th, 2008 at 11:02 amWhen someone announces his intention to obey a law, it sure sounds like cover for the opposite intention.
Besides, didn’t Hayden get the memo? The law no longer applies in this post 9/11 world.
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February 29th, 2008 at 11:53 am….but the CIA’s “subcontractors” won’t have to, will they??
February 29th, 2008 at 11:58 amYes, the law will have a direct effect on “our ability to gather intelligence and to detect and prevent future attacks” — it will make it much more likely that the US will get good intelligence, as opposed to what those detained think the interrogator wants to hear, thereby preventing future attacks.
February 29th, 2008 at 12:13 pmWow. He’ll obey the law…?
That’s big of him.
/snark
February 29th, 2008 at 12:14 pmGeneral Hayden is a traitor to the US Constitution and the American people. He has let Bush turn him into Dark Vadar, or maybe he was a power hungry idiot before he got the job. There are certain people who let power prevert their sense of right and wrong. I wouldn’t let anyone corupt my core principles for any job or any amount of money. This guy is the worst thing that could have ever happened to this country. I can’t wait until he gets his walking papers when the new President get sworn in next year. The era of secretive government and spying on his countryment for no reason will be over. That’s why we can’t let the weasle John S. McCain into office.
February 29th, 2008 at 12:26 pmOh yeah!!! And I believe in every word comes out of the CIA… They are murderes, Liers, Drug dealers and War Criminals!
February 29th, 2008 at 3:14 pmnetlog
almanya chat
January 21st, 2009 at 4:33 pm