Rep. John Boehner admits the use of "torture techniques"
Rep. John Boehner got a little honest today when he admitted that we used "torture."
Boehner: Last week, they released these memos outlining torture techniques and that was clearly a political decision and ignored the advice of their Director of National Intelligence and their CIA director.
As the Huff Post notes:
Boehner said at a press conference in the Capitol.
The techniques discussed include waterboarding, slamming detainees into walls, and depriving them of sleep for up to 11 days.
Boehner argued that a discussion of such torture techniques was "inappropriate," as it could tip off U.S. enemies to the tactics used and "denigrate" the United States and its allies. Torture is illegal under U.S. and international law.
Now here come Michael Steel to clean up Boehner's mess.
Regarding his use of the T-word, Boehner spokesman Michael Steel writes, "It is clear from the context that Boehner was simply using liberals' verbiage to describe these interrogation techniques. The United States does not torture."
Hahaha...
Uh, you mean truthful statements, Mr. Steele?
God, I hate Republicans.
funding them for 8 years don't forget that.
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The Dems did not get majority until 2006.
I know it makes little difference, but 6 of those 8 years were dominated by the GOP.
Uh-uh. Boner told the truth. Freudian slip.
Or as they used to say during the Reagan years: "What the president actually meant to say was..."
they are in private trying to figure out some way to slip the truth around the neck of the public.
Thu, 04/23/2009 - 16:09 — RobertD
Uh-uh. Boner told the truth. Freudian slip.
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Freuds into drag?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
and we're pleased to announce there's nothing you sheep can do about it!
Do you honestly think the torture stopped when Obama was sworn in? Like some magical moment? Please. The predator drones and military continue to kill brown people in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, and Bagram is STILL open. So is Gitmo. Like Clinton though, I'm sure he won't keep memos, and he'll call in extraordinary renditions or some such play on words. The US government didn't just start torturing when Ol' Geedubya came to town. There is a nasty history to the CIA. There will be no prosecutions and no justice, without digging into damn near every administration in the last 60 years. That just isn't gonna happen.
So that's just the way it is then?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Yep.
Michael Steel thinks 'verbiage' will save the republicans now. Ha!
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
who does he speak for again?
"Anyone that makes less than $150K in this country, has no business voting Republican."
There the repugs go again
Arguing with themselves
And losing.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
"It is clear from the context that Boehner was simply using liberals' verbiage to describe these interrogation techniques. The United States does not torture."
Yeah, WE made him slam his dick in the car door over and over again. It's ALWAYS someone else's fault when you have the reasoning skills of spoiled child.
Hey Steele:
Weak. Really weak.
I'm just superstitious enough to hedge my bets.
They've got nothing.
GOP: The party of NO(thing).
woodguy
it's not torture just because it hurts like hell or may cause lasting psychological or physical damage. after all it's only a very realistic simulation of drowning that could result in........death.
doing the torturing were not that afraid of "Falling short of the glory of god" by killing one,as they (jewdeo/christians) like to say
Let's not forget their trainers
http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen05102004.html
I guess it's a different Michael Steel. Not the clueless RNC chief.
Hard to tell one brain-dead Repug from another.
obama offers a blanket pardon to all involved
but pardon is made on condition of accepting to speak under oath to congress
accepting a pardon is proclaiming ones guilt
if you dont accept the pardon...then you can still be prosecuted and will be, as those who will testify are sure to toss you under the bus
so its a win/win proposition
it wont happen...but its a cool thought
Certainly not for the American public, that seems to only be a win/win situation for the vermin involved to the gills on this shitstorm.
Why does bonehead always sound like he's inebriated?
...Are a disgusting bunch of people (and I use the term people loosely here) aren't they? It's a shame the above mentioned liars above are still in office. It proves we have a long way to go in cleaning up the U.S. and it's image abroad, not to mention here at home.
If only banana republics prosecute their past regimes then "six foot, seven foot, eight foot BUNCH" me up on that list!
Fuck you. The Bone is an authority!!! Didn't you see him talk, Ch. Steele? The guy obviously knows IT ALL. Boner's his own man Steele. You're making him look like an incompetent pussy!
me-oww!
The librul boogey man is soooooo Reagan 80's. Since then the conservatives have wrecked the country and they still expect the librul boogey man to scare people? Wow, they really are out of touch and clueless aren't they?
The US does not torture now.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
"Torture techniques." Now I'm thinking this is a deliberate move to admit illegal activities, claim that those activities helped "keep us safe," and dare Democrats to do something about it. Bush did the same thing eventually with illegal warrantless wiretapping, and we know what the Democrats did about that. It just might be a shrewd political move.
take on the detainees and the Geneva Convention.
'One of the things we clearly want to do with these prisoners is to have an ability to interrogate them and find out what their future plans might be, where other cells are located; under the Geneva Convention that you are really limited in the amount of information that you can elicit from people.
It seems to me that given the way in which they have conducted themselves, however, that they are not, in fact, people entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention. They are not prisoners of war. If, for instance, Mohamed Atta had survived the attack on the World Trade Center, would we now be calling him a prisoner of war? I think not. Should Zacarias Moussaoui be called a prisoner of war? Again, I think not.'
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1227313017914...
This is what Shepherd Smith meant by ponding his fist on the table and yelling 'WE DO NOT F***ING TORTURE'. Torture is "liberal verbage". In their mind it can't be torture if they don't "believe" its torture.
Your reactions yesterday toward Shepherd Smith aren't much different than the Dems in congress that gleefully went along with whatever the Bush administration wanted.
was not a novel. It was a prescient vision. What's up with Boner? Is he another Larry Craig or just an abused child?
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