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Xandu posted:Page 16 footnote says "Juma gul who was released with a payment of $[redacted] and other currency." ahahaha the cia's policy of never revealing budget items extends to hush money
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/09/senate-panel-releases-scathing-report-on-cia-interrogation-amid-warnings/ fox news's report on this release should be studied in journalism school as the epitome of "burying the lede"
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gvibes posted:Ah yes, we can't punish people if they were commanded to commit illegal acts. I'm sure the nazis would be comforted by that. No Social Security for CIA Agents Act
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 maybe they were raping prisoners because the CIA used literal rapists to conduct "interrogations"
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TEAYCHES posted:The United States of America ratified a UN law preventing us from rendering prisoners to nations which we expected would be tortured. We also tortured some folks ourselves. i know you're trolling but it's so removed from the realm of possibility that anyone could believe this it lacks punch
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TEAYCHES posted:I honestly want to hear nuanced views on how sticking hoses up stretched anuses, pumping in slush, after water boarding, hitting their broken legs, shouldn't be actively pursued by the United States Justice Department with charges leveled against senior officials for crimes against humanity. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...nistration.html this is about as close as yer gonna get
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TEAYCHES posted:The cool part is when we raped people and no one will ever, ever be tried for it. that's pretty much true of most rapes perpetrated by private citizens too tho
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i've gotten drinks with yoo and he is still utterly unrepentant so this doesn't surprise me at all. still good conversation-haver tho
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if john yoo were executed he'd give a smug smirk and sarcastic quip before the blade dropped anyway
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frankly not prosecuting individuals involved in this makes sense, if obama indicted a single one the CIA would probably disappear his dog
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Gorelab posted:Speaking of prosecutions, has a government ever really massively persecuted it's own former officals without there being a revolution or something close to it? I really can't think of any, and that's sad. france does this to like, every president they have.
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literally everyone in america is incompetent.
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Entropic posted:John McCain's speech in that Fox story someone linked is really good and it tells you everything you need to know about FOX to look at all the headlines on the page ('CIA report another attempt by Democrats to attack Bush?','Woolsey: Release of CIA report a 'great disservice' to US') while listening to McCain clearly explain the exact opposite. my favorite part: quote:Fox News' Catherine Herridge and Chad Pergram and The Associated Press contributed to this report. i wonder who wrote what 
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An Angry Bug posted:
i thought actusrhesus was a JAG or something?
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An Angry Bug posted:The heck is that? a military lawyer that primarily does military justice, operational law, personal legal services or administrative law stuff. maybe a few of them were involved in the torture thing, but the main "legal" footwork was done by the OLC and DOJ
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ActusRhesus posted:Former JAG, actually, but close enough. given the apparent presence of military personnel i imagine at least one commander turned to his or her JAG and asked "this is okay, right?" with the JAG nervously tugging their collar and saying "...Yes, sir" there that is my military fanfiction
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john yoo explained his strategy for appearing slick in interviews to me: government types are generally given a set of 2 or 3 talking points to repeat with different wording, and journalists (and stewart) know this, so if you anticipate what talking points the journos are expecting in advance just completely talk around it and talk about something that they don't expect, but make it sound like you're answering their question. please tell me if he deploys this strategy on CNN, or if he's refined it (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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