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Waterboarding- the real deal
Sunday, May 4, 2008 4:19 PM
CANTTAKESKY
Quote:Originally posted by Kirkules: But it turns out they actually started crying like little girls when coercive techniques were used on them, and the info they spilled saved lives.
Quote:Information provided by two of the waterboarded prisoners, Mohammed and Zubaydah, accounted for 25% of the human intelligence reports circulated by the CIA on Al Qaeda in the five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Hayden said."
Sunday, May 4, 2008 6:06 PM
WALKERHOUND
Sunday, May 4, 2008 7:12 PM
MAGONSDAUGHTER
Sunday, May 4, 2008 9:05 PM
CITIZEN
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Wow, you stumble across one snarky line which, for you, passes off as 'witty' and you keep using it, over and over, huh? I simply am pointing it out to YOU because you keep posting the same drivel over and over again,
Quote:under the delusion that you're "winning" something, when in fact, you aren't.
Quote:I find it funny that it's important for you to imagine me as some figment of your imagination. Says a lot about you, now don't it ?
Monday, May 5, 2008 12:43 AM
SIGNYM
I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.
Quote:I don't know what you're talking about, Cops shoot unarmed civilians all the time in the US. It's not illegal for a cop to shoot an unarmed person if he believes there is an imminent threat.
Quote: "The CIA has not used waterboarding for almost five years. We used it against these three high-valued detainees because of the circumstances of the time," Hayden said. "Very critical of those circumstances was the belief that additional catastrophic attacks against the homeland were imminent. In addition to that, my agency and our community at large had limited knowledge about al Qaeda and its workings." Mohammed, an alleged planner of the September 11, 2001, attacks and major figure in al Qaeda, was arrested in Pakistan in 2003. According to the U.S. military, Zubayda and al-Nashiri were both important figures in al Qaeda, and al-Nashiri was the mastermind behind the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen. McConnell, who also testified at the hearing, said waterboarding remains a technique in the CIA's arsenal according to The Associated Press. He said it would require the president's consent and legal approval from the attorney general, the AP reported. McConnell also told the Senate Intelligence Committee that al Qaeda and its affiliates remain the top threat to U.S. interests at home and abroad. He also expressed fear that al Qaeda in Iraq may be planning to spread out and launch attacks in other countries. McConnell issued the concern in sobering, wide-ranging testimony that laid out the latest assessment of the terrorist threats the United States and its allies faces. "We are increasingly concerned that even as coalition forces inflict significant damage on al Qaeda inside Iraq, they may deploy resources to mount attacks outside that country. Al Qaeda's North Africa affiliate ... is active in North Africa and is extending its target set to include U.S. and Western interests," McConnell said. Hayden said the al Qaeda safe haven in Pakistan is a serious problem that is increasingly recognized by the Pakistani government as a threat to its own existence, which has prompted a better understanding of the need for U.S. military help. "Our partners in Pakistan {HA!!} understand that this is a Pakistani problem and the threat coming out of the tribal areas is now a threat to the health and well-being and identity of Pakistan," Hayden said. "Pakistan's capacity to do some of the things we both would like to see happen in the tribal areas is limited." McConnell expressed deep concern about a future nuclear threat from Iran, and cautioned against misreading the recent National Intelligence Estimate that said Iran has halted the design and creation of a nuclear weapon."We remain concerned about Iran as a potential nuclear weapons threat," he said. "The earliest possible date Iran could technically be capable of producing enough fissile material for a weapon is late 2009, but we judge that to be unlikely. If Iran's nuclear weapons design program has already been reactivated or will be reactivated, it will be a closely guarded secret in an attempt to keep us from being aware of its true status." The intelligence chief also warned that North Korea may not be intending to keep its promise to suspend nuclear weapons programs. He was blunt in regard to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, declaring his policies "damaging to the Venezuelan oil industry and its economy."
Monday, May 5, 2008 3:43 AM
CHRISISALL
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: "Hey we got what we think are high value guys! Let's drown 'em a little bit and see what they say!
Monday, May 5, 2008 4:28 AM
Quote:Originally posted by walkerhound: a. interrogation works. (people like to believe other wise but....it's just not true).
Quote: b. torture is another way of saying: "method of interrogation we won't use"
Quote:i'm almost temped to ask what some of you would consider "acceptable" methods to extract information?
Quote:For example, the Israeli government legalized "moderate physical pressure," with controls to limit its use. However, once permitted, thousands of "suspects" were tortured for stone-throwing and other routine offenses, and the practice became routine and systematic. Even though the Israeli High Court banned the practice in 1999, Amnesty International continues to document Israeli authorities' use of torture. http://www.amnestyusa.org/askamnesty/torture200112.html
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:02 AM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Quote:Originally posted by citizen: You're the one who keeps it relevant, by posting the same evil fascist wannabe terrorist cowardly crap .
Quote:You're the one who keeps saying, "I win, You lose" over and over again, stop forcing your own idiocy and insecurities on me.
Quote: ]Not really, since you made it up like the troll you are. I don't think you're a figment of my imagination, shit for brains, I know you're a figment of someone else's. There's a lot of evidence to that end, for instance its plain and clear you are too stupid to understand English, switch on a computer, use a keyboard etc, but you're managing to just about do these things because your puppet master does them. Says a hell of a lot about you, doesn't it.
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:11 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: I side w/ the champions and defenders of freedom.
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:12 AM
Quote:You're the terrorist loving appeaser to those who saw heads off of innocent men, women and children. You side with monsters. I side w/ the champions and defenders of freedom....
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:14 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: Quote:You're the terrorist loving appeaser to those who saw heads off of innocent men, women and children. You side with monsters. I side w/ the champions and defenders of freedom.... Who torture and kill in the name of freedom! Rap, I just don't understand how you paper that over. Shouting huzzahs doesn't make you right. --------------------------------- Let's party like it's 1929.
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:15 AM
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:25 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: chris - I don't pretend to believe that your life is so sheltered and that you're so naive as to believe that silly scenario. You really are too wise for that.
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: I love terrorism because it makes me feel like a big man when really I'm a cowardly chump
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:28 AM
Quote:Originally posted by citizen: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: I love terrorism because it makes me feel like a big man when really I'm a cowardly chumpSome truth at last.
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:31 AM
Quote:We don't torture and kill innocents.
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:34 AM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: chris - I don't pretend to believe that your life is so sheltered and that you're so naive as to believe that silly scenario. You really are too wise for that. HOLY CRAP!!! I just threw that out there, and look at the response!!!! Classic agency denial!!! I was accidentally right!!! WOOOO-HOOO!!! Chrisisall, PI
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:35 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: Quote:We don't torture and kill innocents. Tell that to the parents of dead children and the children who're grieving for their mothers. And then run like hell, because they know the truth even if you don't. ---------------------------------
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:36 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: What a worthless sack of go se. Instead of taking words out of context, you've resorted to flat out fabrication , whole sale. citizen is a spineless troll. I'm suspecting he's part muslim.
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:38 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: You literally have no idea what you're talking about.
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:39 AM
Quote: Originally posted by citizen: Being a British fop, I prefer the company of young, impressionable young boys to that of women my own age. Mother has told me to stay clear of those whores, and I do love me mum!
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:40 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Well, that does explain much !!!
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:44 AM
Quote:Originally posted by citizen: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Well, that does explain much !!! If it makes me a spineless troll, it makes you one too, but it also makes you a hypocrite. Either way, it's not ok to rape little girls, even if your dad did it.
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:45 AM
Quote:Originally posted by citizen: What a racist sack of
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:48 AM
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:50 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Just one question - Have you stopped sexually molesting your cat yet? Honestly.
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:52 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: From citizen's wish list, at Amazon.com. Good lord, that's just sick!
Quote:You literally have no idea what you're talking about.
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:54 AM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: I side w/ the champions and defenders of freedom. I'm sorry, I keep getting this image of a guy at the NSA who hates his job, in front of a computer with time to kill, so he pretends to be this "AURaptor" character...he intentionally goes way over the top with references to facts that don't exist, or ones that serve his "character's" purposes which, as far as I can tell, is to lampoon such sheepish following of the governmental status quo. I'd say it has been quite successful too. Cover-blowin' Chrisisall
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:56 AM
Quote:Originally posted by citizen: I had to molest yours because I started feeling lonely again .
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: See? He doing classic agency diversion now...it was called "right field left field" back in the day... He's definitely alphabet.
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:57 AM
Quote:I'm suspecting he's part muslim.
Monday, May 5, 2008 7:58 AM
Monday, May 5, 2008 8:06 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: AwwwCrapper is in no way smart enough to work at NSA.
Monday, May 5, 2008 8:08 AM
Quote:If I had been as massively, utterly wrong as you've been on so many topics I would probably go to some quiet dark place and think deeply and painfully about where I'd gone so terribly, horribly wrong. I would question my assumptions and my sources of info, I'd look hard at how I had filtered and connected data, and I would try to figure out what I needed to fix so that reality wouldn't bite me in the ass like it had done so many times before.
Monday, May 5, 2008 8:53 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: Quote:You literally have no idea what you're talking about. really. The tell me, in detail, how I'm wrong, Bring facts to the table. Explain away the millions of innocent people we killed around the world. I'll bet you run out in about... oh... ten words. Because the facts aren't on your side. Pretty much like your view of the economy. (Yeah, how's that going Rap? On fire, right?) Your vision is so biased your literally can't see what's right in front of your face. I'll bet you dollars to donuts you had NO IDEA that 9-11 was coming, and that it punched you in the gut because you were so terribly unaware and unprepared. So, to reiterate my challenge... show me that we have NOT tortured and murdered thousands of innocent people. .
Monday, May 5, 2008 9:46 AM
Quote:The burden of proof lies upon you to show where we have
Quote:We don't torture and kill innocents
Quote:And yes, as for 9/11, everyone was unprepared and no one saw it comin'.
Monday, May 5, 2008 10:33 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: We certainly haven't targeted any civilians, as the terrorist have
KIRKULES
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote:I'm suspecting he's part muslim. Not that you're a racist or anything...
Monday, May 5, 2008 10:38 AM
Quote: Deputy Secret Agent Kirkules
Monday, May 5, 2008 10:46 AM
BIGDAMNNOBODY
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: if we TARGET creeps, KNOWING civies will be greased in the process, ain't it effectively the same thing?
Monday, May 5, 2008 10:55 AM
Monday, May 5, 2008 11:03 AM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: We certainly haven't targeted any civilians, as the terrorist haveBut Mr. Disinformation agency guy, if we TARGET creeps, KNOWING civies will be greased in the process, ain't it effectively the same thing? (And is it possible to answer without using the phrase "collateral damage"? Thanks.) Operativeisall
Monday, May 5, 2008 11:16 AM
Monday, May 5, 2008 11:37 AM
Quote:Originally posted by SignyM: Quote:The burden of proof lies upon you to show where we have No, the burden of proof in on YOU since YOU made the statement that Quote:We don't torture and kill innocentsYou're wrong, you KNOW you're wrong, and its just too friggin' obvious that you're trying to dodge your own statement. It's downright embarrassing. But hey, it's stuck like a piece of toilet paper on your shoe. Quote:And yes, as for 9/11, everyone was unprepared and no one saw it comin'.I saw it coming, you friggin' moron. It didn't take a genius to connect the dots from the embassy bombings to the Cole to home soil. It just takes someone who's not so snowed by propaganda that they can't wake up. --.
Quote: Originally posted by SignyM: Who torture and kill in the name of freedom!
Monday, May 5, 2008 11:38 AM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Let me see...when we got Noriega we shot AT the shanty town surrounding his palace because we didn't want to hurt the home of our next puppet...that's just the first glaring incident that comes to mind... Does it mean NOTHING to anyone that most folk that were gonna die by Saddam's orders were already dead by 2003 and that by invading Iraq, like, a hundred thousand peeps died that wouldn't have if we didn't? That's a question I want to see someone dance around. Bipeds. EDIT: and yeah, Clinton was a screw up also.
Monday, May 5, 2008 11:39 AM
Quote:Since when is Muslim a Race?
Monday, May 5, 2008 11:48 AM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Let me see...when we got Noriega we shot AT the shanty town surrounding his palace because we didn't want to hurt the home of our next puppet...that's just the first glaring incident that comes to mind... Does it mean NOTHING to anyone that most folk that were gonna die by Saddam's orders were already dead by 2003 and that by invading Iraq, like, a hundred thousand peeps died that wouldn't have if we didn't? That's a question I want to see someone dance around. Bipeds. EDIT: and yeah, Clinton was a screw up also. The last angry Chrisisall
Monday, May 5, 2008 11:52 AM
Quote:I'm sure you saw 9/11 coming, SPECIFICALLY like that, and not just some car bomb, right ? I call B.S. on that, sorry. How's about you call on something BEFORE it happens?
Quote:Originally posted by Kirkules: I suspect you are referring to the AC-130 that apparently did a lot of damage friendly and otherwise.
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