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re: Propublica retraction ...CIA nominee had nothing to do with Abu Zubahday waterboardind

Posted on 3/16/18 at 10:47 am to
Posted by alphaandomega
Tuscaloosa-Here to Serve
Member since Aug 2012
13780 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 10:47 am to
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This 'torture' shite is another example of redefining language.


Exactly. I dont consider waterboarding someone as torture. To me torture would be shoving bamboo up he fingers, cutting off skin or appendages, breaking bones, pulling teeth, etc.

I dont think anyone died from being waterboarded, they may have thought they were going to die but most surely survived.
Posted by buckeye_vol
Member since Jul 2014
35254 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 11:37 am to
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Fake news rules the day once again
Well there are still ex-CIA counterterrorism operatives who said that she was involved with that torture program. Of course, now this is just matter of which deep state member one wants to believe.

But if only there were some videos that could clear this up. That's right there were until Haspel destroyed them, reminiscent of a certain presidential candidate whose emails mysteriously vanished.

Regardless, it seems to me that since the deep state controls the information so we can't truly know the truth, maybe we should just find someone whose truth is only known by the deep state.
Posted by buckeye_vol
Member since Jul 2014
35254 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 11:48 am to
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Exactly. I dont consider waterboarding someone as torture.
While its description of the process doesn't immediately make me think it must be torture, the effects of it sure makes it seem like torture.

And I think the Bush administration's justification that it wasn't torture because it doesn't cause "severe pain or suffering" is decieving because they know that they it's intended to create a psychological response that isn't as easy to measure and verify so they can just dismiss it as not severe.

And maybe this is my psych background, but given the one of the primary bases thst soldiers in the Iraq War suffered when returning home was PTSD, which you could just the same argument as waterboarding to dismiss.
Posted by jackamo3300
New Orleans
Member since Apr 2004
2901 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 11:48 am to
Chris Holton of the Center for Security Policy reported this morning on the erroneous accusation against Haspel by ProPublica, which he said is partially funded by Soros. He added that Haspel wasn't even in Thailand during the reported incident.

He also didn't have kind words for Paul who only yesterday repeated the false report as though it were true as a reason for his not supporting her appointment.

Holton went on to say that "Paul would prefer a 'pacifist' in the position."


This post was edited on 3/16/18 at 12:25 pm
Posted by buckeye_vol
Member since Jul 2014
35254 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 11:53 am to
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I dont think anyone died from being waterboarded, they may have thought they were going to die but most surely survived.
Well you could die from it because it could cause dry drowning.

But I'm not sure what dying has to do with the torture argument. Torture is not meant to kill someone, as they defeats the purpose, and the torture methods you described above aren't usually lethal themsleves either.

I wouldn't expect pulling teeth to kill someone (unless there was an infection or something). And it's actually pretty close to a common dental procedure, just done more painfully. So why would they be torture then?
Posted by Wednesday
Member since Aug 2017
15561 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 12:05 pm to
Leftists are such assholes and hypocrites they paint any female not in lock step with their nonsense as crazy.

Examples:
Sarah Palin
This CIA Lady
Michelle Bachman
The FBI lady who got Mike Flynn canned when he stood up for her
Carly Fiorina
Margaret Thatcher
Marie LePen

The list goes on

They truly and completely suck, and their double standard is disgusting.
Posted by texridder
The Woodlands, TX
Member since Oct 2017
14292 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 12:28 pm to
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When she destroyed the videos there was no obligation to preserve them.

Where did you see that?
Posted by buckeye_vol
Member since Jul 2014
35254 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 12:32 pm to
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Chris Holton of the Center for Security Policy
Well I had never heard of this guy, but his neocon fear-mongering is quite entertaining, albeit concerning since neocons haven't gone away yet.

I especially like his story on AL Jazeera when they launched in the US and he was arguing that it was going to be Jihadist propaganda. Then he later argued that they support the Shia Iranians, which the Jihadists like AL Queda and ISIS want to murder as well. And of course, he leaves out that they are banned in many of those Jihadist (Saudi Arabia) recruiting grounds.

He also has a lot of articles about some law called American Laws for American Courts to prevent "foreign laws and doctrine" to be used to infringe in constitutional rights, as if the Constitution itself doesn't already do that.

So he can call Rand a pacifist, but I'll take Rand's pacificism over his ignorant neoconservative views any day.
Posted by buckeye_vol
Member since Jul 2014
35254 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 12:38 pm to
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When she destroyed the videos there was no obligation to preserve them.

And since those 30,000 Hillary emails were all involving personal matters no worries there either right? And those devices that her aids destroyed were probably destroyed to recreate that scene from Office Space.

We should just take everyone’s word for destroying things that could potentially have concerning information.

And above all else, we should believe the deep staters.
Posted by SCLibertarian
Conway, South Carolina
Member since Aug 2013
36458 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 12:52 pm to
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Holton went on to say that "Paul would prefer a 'pacifist' in the position." 


People like Holston hate Rand Paul because Rand exposes the lie that Republicans want limited government. At least Rand understands that limited government will never be achieved domestically when you have rogue groups like the CIA fomenting perpetual conflicts and wars around the globe that we inevitably get involved in both militarily and economically.


Posted by buckeye_vol
Member since Jul 2014
35254 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 1:09 pm to
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Sarah Palin
They took it too far here for sure.
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This CIA Lady
Well don’t you want them to be hard on the deep state?
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Michelle Bachman
Meh. I don’t really recall too much but she was a far worse version of Palin whose own constituents no longer seem fond of at all.
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The FBI lady who got Mike Flynn canned when he stood up for her
Huh?
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Carly Fiorina
Well I remember them defending her when Trump attacked her.
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Margaret Thatcher
I’m sure they did attack her, but it seems their dislike of her is similar to anyone’s dislike of the other side.
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Marie LePen
Now she deserved, probably more than the rest of them combined. She was what they tried to make Trump out to be.
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They truly and completely suck, and their double standard is disgusting
I mean they often take it too far but you’re just describing classics patisan hackery.
Posted by UofLSU
Member since Mar 2018
86 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 1:42 pm to
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That's disappointing. I tend to support people that waterboard terrorist.


Don't worry. She did torture other detainees once she was chief of base. And she did order the destruction of the tapes afterward to avoid public scrutiny of said torture.

For all the fuss about this retraction, it boils down to, "She was directly in charge of the torture of one fewer person than previously reported."
Posted by MrCarton
Paradise Valley, MT
Member since Dec 2009
20231 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 1:44 pm to
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This 'torture' shite is another example of redefining language.


Oh yeah? How so? Ever experienced "torture"?
Posted by Sid in Lakeshore
Member since Oct 2008
41956 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 2:15 pm to
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Oh yeah? How so? Ever experienced "torture"?


well, I'm subject to reading your posts, so...
Posted by Sid in Lakeshore
Member since Oct 2008
41956 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 2:17 pm to
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Don't worry. She did torture other detainees once she was chief of base.


No she didn't. And the Abu Zubayda stuff was added in to the attacks to make it seems like she was "torturing" innocents. She was not.

As usual, the resistance overstates it's case to cause maximum harm, then walks it back quietly. Disgusting.
Posted by RD Dawg
Atlanta
Member since Sep 2012
27323 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 4:39 pm to
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Well there are still ex-CIA counterterrorism operatives who said that she was involved with that torture program. Of course, now this is just matter of which deep state member one wants to believe.


please link post the Propublica clarification.Per the author (CIA contractor)quoted for the original story LINK



This post was edited on 3/16/18 at 5:37 pm
Posted by gthog61
Irving, TX
Member since Nov 2009
71001 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 4:40 pm to
You people are liars in addition to kooks
Posted by RD Dawg
Atlanta
Member since Sep 2012
27323 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 5:17 pm to
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yeah? How so? Ever experienced "torture"?




So why do we put thousands of our own military personnel through it ?
Posted by The Great McGinty
Member since Jan 2017
1384 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 5:24 pm to
It's all Fake News.... They cook up all these bullshite stories to back they're agenda. They put it out there under an "anonymous source" and the public eats it up and a few days later they come back a slide a "we misreported, Sorry" and no one hears it nor cares to hear it. The damage is done! They just keep pushing bullshite and the public cannot help it...they just tell themselves some of it has to be true then they pass the word along. Not only that.... they ride it out to the bitter end and have no shame at all. They have the power to say it's over and until people buy into it enough it will never be over!
Posted by The Great McGinty
Member since Jan 2017
1384 posts
Posted on 3/16/18 at 5:27 pm to
She didn't take over until after Abu Zubabhday was gone.
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