Yeah....let's avoid The Big Picture. It's so-much-more "convenient" (for "conservatives"), to do so.
If you are unable to stay on topics that you bring up, what is the point of talking to you?
Yeah....let's avoid The Big Picture. It's so-much-more "convenient" (for "conservatives"), to do so.
This country is too politically correct now.. I say take em out and hang em.
"Binyam Mohamed, a former UK asylum seeker, admitted to having read the ‘instructions’ after allegedly being beaten, hung up by his wrists for a week and having a gun held to his head in a Pakistani jail.
It was this confession that apparently convinced the CIA that they were holding a top Al Qaeda terrorist."
"The documents, obtained by the ACLU under a Freedom of Information Act request, contain a report by Vice Admiral Albert T. Church, who was tapped to conduct a comprehensive review of Defense Department interrogation operations."
"On his first full day in office, President Barack Obama signed an executive order and two presidential memoranda heralding what he called a "new era of openness." Announcing a Presidential Memorandum on the Freedom of Information Act to reestablish a presumption of disclosure for information requested under FOIA, President Obama said that "every agency and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information, but those who seek to make it known."
'I wonder just what kind of intelligence will be compromised by trying the residents of Gitmo? Troop movements already carried out? Battle strategy for battles already fought? What possible compromising information will be revealed?
We already know that prisoners were taken, were tortured, some were killed. That kind of thing has already been revealed.
So, what revelations could possibly come out of closing Gitmo?
I wonder just what kind of intelligence will be compromised by trying the residents of Gitmo? Troop movements already carried out? Battle strategy for battles already fought? What possible compromising information will be revealed?
We already know that prisoners were taken, were tortured, some were killed. That kind of thing has already been revealed.
So, what revelations could possibly come out of closing Gitmo?
I wonder just what kind of intelligence will be compromised by trying the residents of Gitmo? Troop movements already carried out? Battle strategy for battles already fought? What possible compromising information will be revealed?
We already know that prisoners were taken, were tortured, some were killed. That kind of thing has already been revealed.
So, what revelations could possibly come out of closing Gitmo?
How about losing HUMINT sources on the ground in the Middle East? Our intelligence in that region is already bad enough.
I won't repeat Andy's post, but all of that as well.
So, in order to sort out which are the b ad guys and which aren't, we have to name our intelligence gatherers?
Andy: PLC1 is a Al Qaeda agent!
How do you know Andy?
Andy: We have a report that he is.
By whom, Andy?
Andy: Someone...
Who?
Andy: Here's the report!
Great but it just indicates PLC1 is an Al Qaeda agent. You could have wrote this yesterday. Who wrote this?
Andy: A person...
Who?
Andy: An undercover CIA informant operating in the middle east...
(somewhere in the middle east...)
Any questions?
So, in order to sort out which are the b ad guys and which aren't, we have to name our intelligence gatherers?
So, what revelations could possibly come out of closing Gitmo?
"What most of the world does not yet realise is the extent of the misinformation disseminated by the Bush Administration and the US military: for example, American forces captured only 5% of all the prisoners at Guantánamo; 55% of the prisoners were found by the military never to have committed a hostile act against the United States or its coalition allies; the vast majority of the prisoners at Guantánamo were turned over to the Americans in exchange for large bounties paid for by the United States."
Any questions?