I have no comment on the timing. I'm fine with admitting it's chicken shite politics. I'm more concerned with the higher-level officials trying to scare or guilt trip the Senate in to not releasing the report. "This will cause attacks and violence."

Know what else causes attacks and violence? Indiscriminate torture and indefinite detention.

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Posted by Scoop

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Posted on 12/8/14 at 8:59 pm to boosiebadazz

Obama has signed off on the release because it will hurt America and stir shite up around the world. That's who our president is.

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Posted by TrueTiger

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Posted on 12/8/14 at 9:04 pm to boosiebadazz

It's a classic trial technique to get your bad facts out front early.

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Posted by Ace Midnight

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Posted on 12/8/14 at 10:10 pm to boosiebadazz

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Indiscriminate torture

Meh. We didn't do that. You may call it torture (and I don't have that luxury - I used to be in the HUMINT business - although in a very small role) - but it wasn't indiscriminate. It saved lots of lives, was targeted at getting the correct information and it led to Bin Laden, ultimately.

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indefinite detention.

I don't like this, but what's the alternative? Let them go? Nobody has the stomach for that. I would just turn them over the government in place where we took them from the battlefield - but that's primarily Iraq and Afghanistan where they won't be treated gently - at all.

I assume you'd be against that. So we're left with killing them or keeping them.

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