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Apr 24 2009

Barack Obama Resists Democrats’ Push for Interrogation

In a closed-door meeting with bipartisan congressional leaders Thursday, President Obama reportedly resisted pressure from Democrats to investigate Bush-era interrogation techniques while questioning former Vice President Dick Cheney’s call for the release of more internal memos that Cheney says will show the benefits of the tactics used on high-value detainees.

When House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, asked Obama to release more memos at the meeting, Obama said Cheney is only telling one side of the story, one senior Senate Democratic leadership aide told FOX News.

Obama “suggested that the situation is not quite that cut and dry,” the aide said.

Aides who attended the meeting also said that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., told Obama she wants a “Truth Commission” to investigate Bush-era interrogation policies — an option that has the backing of a number of congressional Democrats — but Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., apparently didn’t embrace the idea. Read More

Obama must not want to release the good reports of what waterboarding did to save American lives! He should never have released any of our secrets to the terrorist which is what he did, making our Country more unsafe by doing so!

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Top legislators Democrats and Republicans Approved interrogations
The CIA briefed top Democrats and Republicans on the congressional intelligence committees more than 30 times about enhanced interrogation techniques, according to intelligence sources who said the lawmakers tacitly approved the techniques that some Democrats in Congress now say should land Bush administration officials in jail.

Seeking the facts about congressional approval, Mr. Hoekstra, the ranking member of the House committee, sent a letter Monday asking National Intelligence Director Dennis C. Blair, a retired admiral, to provide an unclassified list of the dates, locations and names of all members of Congress who were briefed on the techniques. Read On

Apr 17 2009

UPDATED 18 APRIL – High-profile attorney says the declassified Department of Justice memos detailing interrogation techniques prove the U.S. did not torture

UPDATE: 18 April

Is sleep deprivation, grabbing by the collar and diaper-wearing torture?

Obama said Thursday that the U.S. won’t prosecute CIA officials who used the techniques and ordered the memos rescinded. The CIA interrogators, some of whom were contractors, weren’t identified in the partially censored documents.

“This is a time for reflection, not retribution,” Obama said. “In releasing these memos, it is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice that they will not be subject to prosecution.”

While civil rights groups applauded Obama for releasing the memos, some expressed frustration with his promises of immunity for those who followed the memos’ guidance — and predicted that it would amount to blanket cover for all former Bush administration officials. Read More

Obama change his policies so much that no one knows what he will or won’t do for self political power!

At least one high-profile attorney says the declassified Department of Justice memos detailing interrogation techniques prove the U.S. did not torture, even as the ACLU and some lawmakers claim the memos are proof positive the Bush administration did.

David Rivkin, a constitutional lawyer and member of the Council on Foreign Relations, released a statement Friday saying the release of four memos provides a “great benefit” to the former president.

“This data is analyzed in great detail to establish that the use of these techniques does not inflict either physical or psychological damage,” said Rivkin, who served in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. “The conclusions (the) memos reach that the specific interrogation techniques used by the CIA did not constitute torture are eminently reasonable.” Read More

We all know that the liberals will not accept anyones word for it because they hate President Bush!

LINKS:

(1) Pssst, Janet: Bomb threat against police for detaining illegal alien criminals

Apr 8 2009

President Bush & McCain Warning Dems Of Financial Crisis. (Video)

Timeline Shows Bush, McCain Warning Dems Of Financial Crisis.

President Bush Administration and Senator McCain warned Democrats repeatedly about Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac and what became the 2008 financial crisis starting in 2002. Democrats not only resisted all reform efforts, but Barney Frank continued to declare them ‘financially sound’ despite clear signs of meltdown.
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So Obama is full of sh_t when he says that President Bush left this crisis for him, his party is the ones that allow the crisis to happen. Obama you’re the biggest lier that we have ever had in The White House! What do you the American people think?

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(1) FBI raids African money transfer shops in Minnesota