Re: FDR: Speech at Madison Square Garden, 31 October 1936: " (The Republicans) are unanimous in their hate for me—and I welcome their hatred."
- From: Buster Norris <bustyourface@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 21:20:54 -0400
The DemocRAT Hall Of Shame http://www.democrathallofshame.com/ asks
"Why do you always LIE?"
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:51:37 -0400, Kickin' Ass and Takin' Names
<PopUlist349@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Former Bush speechwriter Mark Thiessen's "Courting Disaster," whose
subtitle is "How the C.I.A. Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is
Inviting the Next Attack," offers a relentless defense of the Bush
Administration's interrogation policies, which, according to many
critics, sanctioned torture and yielded no appreciable intelligence
benefit. In addition, Thiessen attacks the Obama Administration for
having banned techniques such as waterboarding. "Americans could die
as a result," he writes.
Yet Thiessen is better at conveying fear than at relaying the facts.
His account of the foiled Heathrow plot, for example, is "completely
and utterly wrong," according to Peter Clarke, who was the head of
Scotland Yard's anti-terrorism branch in 2006. "The deduction that
what was being planned was an attack against airliners was entirely
based upon intelligence gathered in the U.K.," Clarke said, adding
that Thiessen's "version of events is simply not recognized by those
who were intimately involved in the airlines investigation in 2006."
Nor did Scotland Yard need to be told about the perils of terrorists
using liquid explosives. The bombers who attacked London's
public-transportation system in 2005, Clarke pointed out, "used
exactly the same materials."
Thiessen's claim about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed looks equally shaky. The
Bush interrogation program hardly discovered the Philippine airlines
plot: in 1995, police in Manila stopped it from proceeding and, later,
confiscated a computer filled with incriminating details. By 2003,
when Mohammed was detained, hundreds of news reports about the plot
had been published. If Mohammed provided the C.I.A. with critical new
clues-details unknown to the Philippine police, or anyone
else-Thiessen doesn't supply the evidence. ...
Thiessen's effort to rewrite the history of the C.I.A.'s interrogation
program comes not long after a Presidential race in which both the
Republican and the Democratic nominees agreed that state-sponsored
cruelty had damaged and dishonored America. The publication of
"Courting Disaster" suggests that Obama's avowed determination "to
look forward, not back" has laid the recent past open to partisan
reinterpretation. By holding no one accountable for past abuse, and by
convening no commission on what did and didn't protect the country,
President Obama has left the telling of this dark chapter in American
history to those who most want to whitewash it.
Oops! Caught STEALING, again:
You wanted us to think YOU wrote the above.
YOU DID NOT write the above.
YOU STOLE it from:
Counterfactual
A curious history of the C.I.A.?s secret interrogation program.
by Jane Mayer
March 29, 2010
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/03/29/100329crbo_books_mayer
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