Category Archives: Guantanamo

1 May

“Listen to what I say; not see what I actually do.”

While segments of the mainstream media have adopted President Obama’s excuses yesterday that he’s tried hard to close Guantanamo’s detention facilities since day two, but for Congress standing in the way, Benjamin Wittes at Lawfare Blog cuts right to it:

I respect Greenwald’s right to dissent from Obama administration policies. I do not respect Obama’s right to dissent from his own administration’s policies.

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he described himself as fighting against a policy he has, in fact, adopted.

Posted in Barack Obama, Baracks Broken Promises, Guantanamo, Media, MSM Bias | 21 Comments | 385 views
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29 Jan

Obama ‘The Peaceful’ To Keep Gitmo Open

Drones over sovereign countries killing innocents Going to war without Congressional approval. Assassinating American citizens. And now Gitmo to remain open for business. The State Department on Monday reassigned Daniel Fried, the special envoy for closing the prison at Guantánamo … Continue reading

Posted in American Intelligence, Barack Obama, Baracks Broken Promises, Bush 43, Bush Derangement Syndrome, CIA Leak, Deception and Lies, Fanatical Islam, Foreign Policy, Guantanamo, Libya, Middle East, Military, MSM Bias, NATO, Politics, POWER GRAB!, The Plame Affair, War On Terror | 4 Comments | 256 views
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4 Jan

“Zero Dark Thirty”: Dramatized Fiction on CIA “Torture”

How accurate and realistic is the portrayal of CIA interrogation in the film? The movie, after all, opens with a statement saying “based on firsthand accounts of actual events”; then goes on to show the fictionalized brutal abuse and torture of a fictional high value terrorist, including waterboarding.

Well, one “firsthand account” not utilized as an expert consultant to the movie is Jose Rodriguez, former head of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, author of Hard Measures, and unapologetic defender of the CIA’s “torture” program….

Posted in 9/11, CIA interrogation program, Guantanamo, movie review, War On Terror | 8 Comments | 468 views
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1 Jan

Embracing Anarchism Is Like Making Love To A Cactus, Prickly At Best

An OWS activist and his pregnant girl friend were arrested on bomb paraphernalia charges. The arrests have brought forth images of Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, the friends and former neighbors of the Obamas. Both couples are from … Continue reading

Posted in Foreign Trade issues, Guantanamo, Hollywood Limousine & Learjet Liberals, Occupy Wall Street, Oil, Paul Ryan, propaganda bureau, The Looming Tower, WMD | Tagged , , | 10 Comments | 327 views
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13 Jun

Obama’s Failure

“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

John Burroughs

Posted in Blogging, Class Warfare, Culture of Corruption, Deception and Lies, Disasters, Freedom, Guantanamo, Liberal Idiots, Marxism, Media, MSM Bias, Socialism | Tagged , , , | 34 Comments | 910 views
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18 May

Soufan…Rodriguez…Carle…Crumpton

“Mr. President, by the time we’re through with these guys, they’re gonna have flies walking across their eyeballs.”
- Former CTC chief, Cofer Black, 60 Minutes last Sunday

Lawfare Blog has a roundup of some of the latest news regarding the “GWoT”:

Posted in 9/11, American Intelligence, Book Review, CIA interrogation program, Guantanamo, War On Terror | 1 Comment | 480 views
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10 May

Panties in a Wad Over “Big Boy Pants”

“The reason for that is the torture that my client was subjected to by the men and women wearing the big-boy pants down at the CIA, it makes it impossible …”
- Air Force Captain Michael Schwartz, military counsel for the defence of Walid bin Attash

During the arraignment hearings, this comment was drowned out by white noise when the court security officer thought classified information might be mentioned. However, upon review, The Pentagon office in charge of the military commission tribunals decided nothing compromising was revealed and released a transcript on Wednesday.

Schwartz’ “big boy pants” was a snide reference to Jose Rodriguez (who proudly linked it onto his book’s Facebook wall) and his 60 Minutes interview with Lesley Stahl in which Rodriguez said,

Posted in 9/11, Book Review, CIA interrogation program, Guantanamo, War On Terror | 6 Comments | 517 views
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11 Mar

Targeted Assassinations Of American Citizens…The Left’s Hypocrisy

As I wrote about in a earlier post, the hypocrisy of the left in regards to Obama’s policy of allowing assassinations of United States citizens is quite telling.

Take for example this speech given by our Attorney General in 2004:

Posted in American Intelligence, Barack Obama, Baracks Broken Promises, Bush 43, Bush Derangement Syndrome, CIA interrogation program, CIA Leak, Constitution, Deception and Lies, Fanatical Islam, Guantanamo, Homegrown Jihadi, Law, Media, Middle East, MSM Bias, NSA Wiretap's, Politics, POWER GRAB!, The Plame Affair, War On Terror | 17 Comments | 624 views
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10 Oct

How’s Gitmo/Bagram looking now?

As we get into the 10th anniversary of OEF, “Afghan detainees tortured in prison, U.N. says”, reads the WaPo headline.

By U.S. forces?

Um…no:

Posted in Afghanistan, Guantanamo | 10 Comments | 594 views
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12 May

Torture doesn’t work…ok, so where’s the disagreement?

Agents searching Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s compound discovered what one official later called a “mother lode” of valuable intelligence. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was obviously planning more attacks. It didn’t sound like he was willing to give us any information about them. “I’ll talk to you,” he said, “after I get to New York and see my lawyer.”

George Tenet asked if he had permission to use enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. I thought about my meeting with Danny Pearl’s widow, who was pregnant with his son when he was murdered. I thought about the 2,973 people stolen from their families by al Qaeda on 9/11. And I thought about my duty to protect the country from another act of terror.

“Damn right,” I said.

- Decision Points, pg 170, by George W. Bush

“The history of the United States military is clear: Torture doesn’t work”- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

“We don’t torture. That’s not what we’re involved in.”- Vice President Dick Cheney

“This country doesn’t torture, we’re not going to torture.”-President Bush

Posted in American Exceptionalism, American Intelligence, Anti-Americanism, Book Review, CIA interrogation program, Guantanamo, Personal, War On Terror, Wikileaks | 46 Comments | 1,705 views
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