13 Dec 2014 12:45 pm
Your third line: Yes there are.RichClem » 13 Dec 2014 8:47 am » wrote:
Oh gosh, then you'll have to have extra manpower to run down the bad leads as well as the good.
Better that millions, die, right?
And there are no "more proven methods" to get intell from a committed terrorist, moonbat.
I think you just like being a self righteous prig and would allow millions to die to feed your leftist ego.
When the United States was attacked on 9/11, every member of the Central Intelligence Agency’s clandestine services had a rule book on the conduct of interrogations. It was clear and concise.
It outlawed the following methods: “Torture, cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment, or prolonged detention without charges or trial.” It was based on five decades of experience.
President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and the leaders of the CIA threw out the rule book as they set out on their global crusade against terrorism. This was unwise.
Anyone who was in New York or Washington after 9/11 remembers the fear — every day, every night, every time the phone rang — that there would be another attack. I sat down with George Tenet, the director of Central Intelligence, not long after 9/11. The exhaustion, the fear — and the terror — that I saw in his eyes is an image I will never forget.
Fear trumped wisdom for the next seven years.
CIA Director John Brennan said on Thursday that some intelligence officers
used “abhorrent” methods on the people they detained after the attacks. He said it was “unknowable” whether the so-called enhanced interrogation techniques — EITs, in CIA jargon, torture in plain English — yielded useful intelligence.
“We have not concluded that it was the use of EITs,” Brennan said, “… that allowed us to obtain useful information from detainees.”
This much we know: The CIA threw out the rule book instructing its officers that torture does not work as a method of gathering intelligence. And out with the rule book went the agency’s institutional knowledge and hard-won wisdom.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2 ... er-learns/
Your fourth line: **** you. Ask George Bush and Richard Nixon about letting their egos drive them to getting people killed.