In his press conference on the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on torture, CIA Director John Brennan acknowledged that interrogators did some things that were "abhorrent and rightly should be repudiated by all,” but also explained that it was a crazy time and everybody was just doing the best they could to Protect America.
<i>&quot;...it was a crazy time and everybody was just doing the best they could to Protect America.&quot;</i>
Though Obama has granted them executive amnesty here in the U.S., Cheney and Bush can plead temporary insanity at The Hague.
Also ... &quot;crazy time&quot; ... the torture started almost a year after the 9/11 attacks. And eight years after we ratified the &quot;United Nations Convention against Torture&quot;.
Again, for all those &#039;enhanced interrogation&#039; defenders (looking at you, DICK, Rush, et al): agree to be waterboarded on national TV, and come out smiling. Ain&#039;t torture, right?
And Chris &quot;Interruptus&quot; Matthews goes on-and-on about &quot;does it work&quot;. Is he in the third grade? It doesn&#039;t matter. It&#039;s wrong. It&#039;s wrong. It&#039;s wrong.
-Torture makes us <strong>SAFER</strong>!!! -However if the world knows about our torture programs, it makes us <strong>LESS</strong> safe!
A fellow-Canadian friend of mine was teaching at State U which resembled nothing so much as the 3rd Rock institution. On 9/11, the fellow members of her dept, all edumacated professors, went around saying &quot;Why do they hate us?&quot;
<i>&quot;...it was a crazy time and everybody was just doing the best they could to Protect America.&quot;</i>
Though Obama has granted them executive amnesty here in the U.S., Cheney and Bush can plead temporary insanity at The Hague.
Also ... &quot;crazy time&quot; ... the torture started almost a year after the 9/11 attacks. And eight years after we ratified the &quot;United Nations Convention against Torture&quot;.
The enema of my enemy is my friend.
Cruel and Unusual for $1000: <i>&quot;why the CIA and the Bush team decided to ... torture&quot;</i>
What is &quot;because they are assholes&quot;?
Again, for all those &#039;enhanced interrogation&#039; defenders (looking at you, DICK, Rush, et al): agree to be waterboarded on national TV, and come out smiling. Ain&#039;t torture, right?
Fkg assholes...
And Chris &quot;Interruptus&quot; Matthews goes on-and-on about &quot;does it work&quot;. Is he in the third grade? It doesn&#039;t matter. It&#039;s wrong. It&#039;s wrong. It&#039;s wrong.
...Rethuglican logic 101:
-Torture makes us <strong>SAFER</strong>!!! -However if the world knows about our torture programs, it makes us <strong>LESS</strong> safe!
Why we switched to torture, by Dick &quot;Dick&quot; Cheney: Because we could, and because we wanted to.
A fellow-Canadian friend of mine was teaching at State U which resembled nothing so much as the 3rd Rock institution. On 9/11, the fellow members of her dept, all edumacated professors, went around saying &quot;Why do they hate us?&quot;
Those heavy-duty Zircon-encrusted tweezers come in handy for enhanced interrogation