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Happy 4th Of July From Obama: Justice Department To Release Bush-Era Internal CIA Memo On Terror Program



Jul 1, 2009 20 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

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WASHINGTON – The Justice Department is expected to release on Wednesday an internal CIA report on the agency’s secret detention and interrogation program during the Bush administration.

The report had been expected to be made public two weeks ago but was delayed over debates about how much of it should be censored.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for the release of all documents relating to the CIA’s interrogation program, had said it was disappointed by the delay.

“We can only hope that this delay is a sign that the forces of transparency within the Obama administration are winning over the forces of secrecy and that the report will ultimately be released with minimal redactions,” ACLU attorney Amrit Singh said in a statement.

Singh also said the agency “should not be permitted to use national security as a pretext for suppressing evidence of its own unlawful conduct,” adding that “the American people have a right to know the full truth about the torture program that was authorized in their name.”

The government published a version of the report in 2008 but its contents were almost entirely blacked out.

The report was written in 2004 by the CIA’s inspector general.

The review questioned the effectiveness of harsh interrogation methods employed by CIA interrogators, such as waterboarding. That’s according to references to the report contained in Bush-era Justice Department memos that were declassified this spring.

(AP)


  • tlk

    ACLU attorney Amrit Singh said in a statement.

    I think Amrit could use a little visit from ACTIVE. See…it’s people like dimwit amrit that are behind the scenes destroying this country. Anyone can sue anybody for anything….let’s all sue this motherfucker for wearing his shorts too tight or something..like that broad does to Palin. Give him a little distraction for awhile and a taste of his own medicine. Fight fire with fire. These Nazis have go to go.

    • cuchieddie (Real American)

      Please send me info about ACTIVE, it has disappeared.

  • vincenzo4

    It is quite telling how much emphasis is on outting and belittling supposed illegal conduct. This arrogant and sedititious concern, in the face of and mindful of an enemy that has for at least two decades, most notably unconfronted during the 1990s. An enemy that has committed egregiously, and without consequences, multiple horrors against humanity, war crimes against our own soldiers and specifically genocide against non-combatants.

    Nothing is said about any of this and there is not one bit of concern or outcry.

    I think we all know why this is the case.

  • Scoot

    When do we go Honduran on Obama’s ass?

    He has degraded this country enough, it’s time for him to be “relieved” of his duties.

  • GRIZZ

    ovomit would put singh on the supreme court if he could.I look at that picture and just think of a month worth of bitch slapping

  • Steady

    It is amazing to me just how stupid the majority of American voters were last November. God help us!!!!

  • http://www.accdf.com aboutTObegin

    he is a traitor, plain and simple…not a President, a traitor usurper! his actions thus far have made it clear. What happens to traitors during wartime?

    -aTb
    http://www.912dc.org

    ALSO, check this out, this guy is ACTIVE and DOING something about it….NOW!
    http://libertyrider.com/

  • JayMS

    In all fairness the white house is releasing this memo under court order in response to a lawsuit. Bush had the same problem but at least he was willing to appeal to higher courts to keep it confidential.

  • SteveRadley

    Just another count of treason that this MOTHERFUCKER needs to be held accountable for! :evil:

  • cuchieddie (Real American)

    :mad: This whole administration needs to be hung followed by Congress who we will feed to the sharks. :mad:

  • Lottie

    I guess waterboarding is worse than beheding with a dulle knife? I actually don’t care a rats ass about the toucher used. None of it was as bad as our own troops faced by our enemy. I think dc would look good lit up like a firecracker sooner than later its them or us I wouldliketo justget started.

  • Scoot

    I thought this would be a good post for all of us to read before the 4th of July. Lord knows Obama and 95% of Congress haven’t read this in a long time (forgive me for taking up a lot of space here, but I think it’s worth it):

    In Congress, July 4, 1776

    The Unanimous Declaration of The Thirteen United States of America

    When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. — The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

    He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

    He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

    He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

    He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

    He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

    He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

    He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

    He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

    He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

    He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our People, and eat out their substance.

    He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

    He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

    He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

    For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

    For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

    For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

    For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

    For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

    For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses:

    For abolishing the free system of English Laws in a neighboring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

    For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our Governments:

    For suspending our own Legislature, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

    He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

    He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

    He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

    He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

    He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

    In every stage of these Oppressions we have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

    Nor have we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

    We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.

    And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”

    John Hancock

    Button Gwinnett
    Lyman Hall
    Geo. Walton

    Wm. Hooper
    Joseph Hewes
    John Penn
    Edward Rutledge
    Thos. Heyward, Junr.
    Thomas Lynch, Junr.
    Arthur Middleton

    Samuel Chase
    Wm. Paca
    Thos. Stone
    Charles Carroll of Carrollton
    George Wythe
    Richard Henry Lee
    Th. Jefferson
    Benja. Harrison
    Thos. Nelson, Jr.
    Francis Lightfoot Lee
    Carter Braxton

    Robt. Morris
    Benjamin Rush
    Benja. Franklin
    John Morton
    Geo. Clymer
    Jas. Smith
    Geo. Taylor
    James Wilson
    Geo. Ross
    Caesar Rodney
    Geo. Read
    Tho. Mckean

    Wm. Floyd
    Phil. Livingston
    Frans. Lewis
    Lewis Morris
    Richd. Stockton
    Jno. Witherspoon
    Fras. Hopkinson
    John Hart
    Abra. Clark

    • Scoot

      This says it all, loud and clear, what we must do:

      “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

    • mike3481

      I remember reading this in grade school, but we never delved into the meat of the document…

      That would be the 27 charges against King George & the British government.

      Every one of the charges is eye popping.

      If, in the last 40 years every 13 year old in America actually studied this document & the charges within, I very much doubt we’d be in the dire situation we are today.

      Perfect hind sight, eh. :roll:

    • escapedcommieny

      You can receive a pocket size booklet of the Declaration and Bill of Rights from the Heritage Foundation. It is fun to whip it out and quote from at rallies.

  • Steve Radley

    Thanks Scoot. That puts it all in perspective. Happy 4th everyone. May this great nation enjoy, at least, another 233 years the way our Founding Fathers intended.

    All the way!! :beer: :gun:
    Steve

    • Scoot

      You’re welcome Steve.

      Those words above are our weapon against the tyranny that our Founding Fathers knew was coming for us. We need to make them proud and fight to get our country back, just as they did for us.

      “Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of Liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.” – Patrick Henry

  • Phil Byler

    Re-reading the Declaration of Independence on the Fourth of July is a terrific way to remind ourselves of what we are as a People and what an exceptional nation we are.

    Contrast Obama’s action for the Fourth: the release of a CIA document intended to disclose our “wrongdoing.” Obama does not love the America we love and cherish and would defend to the death. Obama loves himself and his socialist illusions.

  • vincenzo4

    What is very sad Phil is the deliberate death of principle and the mindset that was the genesis of this nation. No one is telling Obama no. They are all guilty. After what this country has done in the world to keep it free and without tryannical bloodshed, Obama and his people are simply decapitating this beautiful land I have served for 32 years.

    What is quite sad is that none of them have taken a moment to wonder what it must have been like to make the decision to jump from the 110th floor of the World Trade Center. None of them care about the eight years they championed prior to that morning where not a goodamn tjing was done to confront any of it. Waterboarding and Bush did not make this country less safer and hated. The failure of principle in stopping the bloodletting has given them all a gree light.

    Then what do Democrats do instinctively? Decapitate the Musketeers, and stab them right in the back with a smile. Watch Braveheart again, and this time pay close attention.

    There is spiritual wickedness in high places.

  • Xavier

    “If, in the last 40 years every 13 year old in America actually studied this document & the charges within, I very much doubt we’d be in the dire situation we are today.”

    That’s why the liberal left (cough*commies*cough) stopped teaching anything for which this nation stands for. It makes conversion from freedom to tyranny easier because no one was taught patriotism and to identify the threats.