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Citing Bush administration sources, Wolffe says torture briefings were a "trap" to "co-opt" congressional Democrats

May 15, 2009 9:48 pm ET

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    • Author by christopher howard (May 15, 2009 10:52 pm ET)
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      No kidding. The Pelosi-was-briefed-on-torture story is hardly new, either. It first went public in, I believe, 2006. I guess she now sees the thanks the Republicans are giving her for her "impeachment is off the table" defense of Bush. This is why you shouldn't enable war criminals.
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      • Author by eweston8542983 (May 15, 2009 11:32 pm ET)
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        If this works as well most neocon plans, its all over except for the shouting. Which attenuates, but never seems to die.
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        • Author by carlileb5935 (May 16, 2009 3:47 am ET)
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          Yeah, because no one's going to blame Pelosi for waterboarding. And people don't trust the CIA, it's like, 'yeah, a spy agency never lies? Righhhhht!'
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      • Author by snoopy (May 15, 2009 11:53 pm ET)
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        This isn't really about torture so much as it's about money. We have good technology and great subject matter experts, but they cost way more than some putz who gets paid $30K a year to waterboard people. Heck, republicans fired several middle east experts for the simple reason that they were gay! When you let ideology take options off the table, all you do is prove that you are an intolerant sanctimonious putz who lets the almighty dollar determine how much safety you want in your life.
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      • Author by mjh (May 17, 2009 12:33 am ET)
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        "Wolffe says torture briefings were a "trap" to "co-opt" congressional Democrats"

        "I guess she now sees the thanks the Republicans are giving her for her "impeachment is off the table" defense of Bush. This is why you shouldn't enable war criminals." - christopher howard


        Well said, chris.

        This is a favored tactic of the Mob; it's called "dirty in." It's how they get someone to do their work for them . . . make them an accomplice to a low level crime; so if they ever decide to testify against you, they're "dirtied" and not considered credible -- thus, the Mob can always use them . . .

        And its working like a charm: a disproportionate amount of attention is being paid to the one who was "briefed" on the torture . . . as opposed to the ones who actually AUTHORIZED the torture . . .



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    • Author by scootmandubious (May 16, 2009 11:10 am ET)
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      If the Obama administration wasn't trying so hard to appease Republicans, that hate him anyway, he could put the focus back where it should be, by doing one thing...making sure that an Independent Prosecutor takes on the torture issus.

      It blows me away that Obama keeps pandering to the GOP, and this is the result. With no heat on the perpetrators of these atrocities, they are allowed to focus on Pelosi, to detract from the real issue.

      Pelosi, herself, is to blame, for being was too deferential with the Bushies, regarding impeachment, or accountability.
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    • Author by jcalton (May 16, 2009 12:14 pm ET)
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      Yes, it's terrible: some people were briefed about torture.

      In other completely irrelevant news, PEOPLE WERE TORTURED. It was ordered by the absolute very-top of the U.S. executive branch and carried out by Americans.

      Either torture matters in which case that's a lot more important than briefings. Or torture doesn't matter, in which case the briefings don't matter.

      If only briefings matter, then, okay, every member of Congress that was briefed on torture can be removed. That should push a Democrat majority into the 75% range. Happy now, GOP?
      Or, only lying matters, in which case, we'll have to re-elect 99% of the entire Congress. (1% are newly elected and haven't had time to lie, yet.)
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      • Author by TheDayV (May 16, 2009 1:56 pm ET)
           
        Yeah, let's not make Franken go through that again.
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      • Author by khonea1553 (May 17, 2009 10:50 am ET)
           
        The thing is about all this torture and investigation bs is that we are all guilty by association. We knew what we were getting when we elected G.W. to office and all his retard cronies. We were all angry and wanted revenge and we all turned our heads and let this go on. The best thing we can do is what our present President is trying to do....Say hey we were wrong...we fell victims to our anger...we are sorry but we will learn from this and though we will probably makes mistakes in the future we will not make this mistake again...that's all we can do..so please please stop all this we need to bring them to justice....the majority of Americans all would have to be tried for crimes of complicity
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