READER COMMENTS ON
"CIA Apparently Defied Court Order When It Destroyed Torture Tapes"
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COMMENT #1 [Permalink]
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Ancient
said on 12/12/2007 @ 6:20 pm PT...
I'm tired of criminials saying how far it goes, as opposed to real people having a say.
COMMENT #2 [Permalink]
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Ancient
said on 12/12/2007 @ 6:32 pm PT...
Hey Brad, keep the GOOD WORK UP, seems to be our last chance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
COMMENT #3 [Permalink]
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Ancient
said on 12/12/2007 @ 7:02 pm PT...
And yes I've just watched the ACLU FREEDOM FILES!
COMMENT #4 [Permalink]
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Ancient
said on 12/12/2007 @ 7:16 pm PT...
But if only the masses were properly informed, I have no doubt even the elderly population would be incensed at the loss of true American spirit of these CRIMINALS.
COMMENT #5 [Permalink]
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EMPY
said on 12/12/2007 @ 7:19 pm PT...
From MrJJ @TPM Muckraker:
The new and improved DOJ ??? Dont't think so....
MuKasey.."I think the Justice Department is capable of doing whatever it appears needs to be done," Mukasey said. "The question of a special prosecutor is the most hypothetical of hypotheticals, and that isn't going to be faced until it happens. And if it has to be, it will be."
Mukasey may have a conflict of interest problem already, and may have to call upon a Special Prosecutor.
Jose Padilla’s lawyers argued before the Florida Federal Court that Abu Zubaydah was tortured into saying Padilla was an al Qaeda associate. The DOJ dismissed Padilla’s allegations as “meritless,” asserting Padilla’s legal team could not prove that Abu Zubaydah had been tortured. Well, it’s clear now that they certainly COULD have, if the tapes of the interrogations of Abu Zubaydah had been made available!
Now here is where Mukasey’s role comes into question. U.S. District Judge Mukasey, now attorney general, was the one who signed the warrant used by the FBI to arrest Padilla in May 2002. Court records show the warrant relied in part on information obtained from Abu Zubaydah’s interrogation. So we have a problem Houston.
The Attorney General can only issue a warrant based upon legally obtained evidence, and confessions under torture are certainly not “legally obtained”. So either Mukasey was misrepresented the evidence, and would be liable to be potentially a party in those who were presented with “perjured evidence”; or he knew that torture was used in obtaining the confession and ignored it.
In either case he is unsuitable to run an investigation, as it will, inevitably, involved himself. Thus a Special Prosecutor is necessary.
COMMENT #6 [Permalink]
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EMPY
said on 12/12/2007 @ 7:25 pm PT...
Why did Mukasey refuse to say waterboarding was torture when being confirmed? Because he had signed the arrest warrant for Jose Padilla back in '02 based information waterboarded out of Zubaydah. He had to know how that information was obtained, or should have, and therfore has already made his views of torture known.
Don't expect this guy to jump at any investigation.
Go ACLU!
COMMENT #7 [Permalink]
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Ancient
said on 12/12/2007 @ 7:33 pm PT...
Great news, thanks EMPY! I'm fresh from a funeral of a REAL MORAL PILLAR from my old hood.
COMMENT #8 [Permalink]
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Ancient
said on 12/12/2007 @ 7:41 pm PT...
I meant great reportin not news.
COMMENT #9 [Permalink]
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EMPY
said on 12/12/2007 @ 8:11 pm PT...
Sorry for your loss Ancient.
COMMENT #10 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 12/13/2007 @ 3:44 am PT...
Ancient #4
"the loss of true American spirit"
Exactly. Preznit blush and the bushie criminal gang have been trying to force a phony sentiment on the people.
The American Spirit has been replaced with "amurkan" sewer water in the corrupt minds of the bushie gang, and they want to force us to drink that shit.
Ain't gonna happen ...
COMMENT #11 [Permalink]
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Dredd
said on 12/13/2007 @ 6:23 am PT...
Haliburton has moved to Dubai, UAE; and rumor has it that the Pentagon is building its new (camoflaged) headquarters at the north pole of Saturn.
Seriously, this "object" was observed on Saturn in 1980 when another spacecraft went by it. They did not know what it was and suspected equipment failure. But the Cassini misson with perfectly working equipment found it still there 20 years later.
Since hexagons don't form in high speed circular winds (super-hurricane) nor do they last two decades, this is a great mystery.
So is the CIA behavior ... stupid mystery happens.
COMMENT #12 [Permalink]
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JUDGE OF JUDGES
said on 12/13/2007 @ 4:44 pm PT...
Psssssst... the tapes are hidden in the library of congress disguised as 4 very small books.
COMMENT #13 [Permalink]
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Ancient
said on 12/14/2007 @ 1:25 pm PT...
Thanks Empy, Dredd too, and JOJ for always making me smile!
COMMENT #14 [Permalink]
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JUDGE OF JUDGES
said on 12/14/2007 @ 6:55 pm PT...
Ancient: I hope ya still smiling after this . . .
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COMMENT #15 [Permalink]
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Ancient
said on 12/16/2007 @ 2:30 pm PT...
Yup JOJ, smiles on, an I'm Irish too!