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2009-08-24 Home Front: WoT

White House Sets Up Interrogation Unit Directly Under NSC

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Posted by Anonymoose 2009-08-24 10:40|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Office of Officious Sadism and Pious Pseudo-Torture

OOSPPT. Has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-08-24 11:10|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-08-24 11:10|| Front Page Top

#2 This is about as frigging stupid and potenially damaging as anything he could ever do. As a young LT in the Army we learned to never take a prisoner to or let the commander talk to prisoners. The reason is you must always protect the commander from any fallout when dealing with the prisoner. Now we have numbnut POTUS wanting the control of iterrogations to fall directly under his office? Now when an accusation is made the line to the President is direct. The world court and the UN can charge directly to the President. When the next president gets into power, god I hope soon, and he distances himself from tactical operations the loons at the UN and around the world will scream. Just what has this president done in the last five months that he has not screwed up?????

Posted by 49 Pan 2009-08-24 12:00|| 2009-08-24 12:00|| Front Page Top

#3 High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group = Obama's goons.

Yup, he owns 'em!

Posted by Parabellum 2009-08-24 12:09|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-08-24 12:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Does this mean we'll have a "Terror Czar"?

Good lord, Holder is ready to prosecute CIA agents who interrogated suspected terrorists by holding up an electric drill to their faces. Wonder if Holder would ever prosecute a NSC agent?

Posted by Steve White 2009-08-24 13:37|| 2009-08-24 13:37|| Front Page Top

#5 Now we will get some 'information' from those dissenters at the town hall meetings. BWAHAHAHAHA

Posted by SteveS 2009-08-24 14:02|| 2009-08-24 14:02|| Front Page Top

#6 As if layering and departmental bureacracy within the Intelligence Community isn't bad enough already.

Let me ask if I may, what Intelligence Community rules and operational oversight will this august body be governed by?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-24 15:07|| 2009-08-24 15:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Wow! THAT IS really stupid. Do they have any idea what they are doing? /Put on tinfoil hat/ Unless of course healthcare dissidents are now considered terrorists. Then it makes perfect sense.

Posted by whitecollar redneck 2009-08-24 15:09|| 2009-08-24 15:09|| Front Page Top

#8 "Unless of course healthcare dissidents are now considered terrorists."

Of course they are, wcrn. Haven't you been paying attention to Bambi & Co.?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-08-24 15:11|| 2009-08-24 15:11|| Front Page Top

#9 Sort of begs a couple of questions:

1. If there no longer is any "war on terror" why is this capability needed?

2. Ok, so lets say the capability is in fact needed. What, or I should say who's 'priority intelligence requirement' will this effort drive or respond to and where will the fusion be conducted?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-24 15:22|| 2009-08-24 15:22|| Front Page Top

#10 Is it just me.... or does anyone else out there think these poor helpless bastards at the White House just sit up each night and plan for the release of their next insane scheme for the following day?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-24 15:25|| 2009-08-24 15:25|| Front Page Top

#11 Nah. They clear it with the New York Times first.

Posted by Matt 2009-08-24 16:34|| 2009-08-24 16:34|| Front Page Top

#12 Running this center sounds like a great job. All you have to do is generate meaningful and timely intelligence without upsetting any detainees or their attorneys.

Further, whoever runs the new interrogation center can be absolutely confident that Obama and Holder have their back.

Posted by DoDo 2009-08-24 16:46|| 2009-08-24 16:46|| Front Page Top

#13 Bskr, thanks for the Rhodie-UDI post from the other day, the world is listening. We may get some answers sometime as to why we didn't string the d*cks up when we could.

History repeats.

Posted by rhodesiafever">rhodesiafever 2009-08-24 16:49|| 2009-08-24 16:49|| Front Page Top

#14 Very welcome RF.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-08-24 17:07|| 2009-08-24 17:07|| Front Page Top

#15 Start by reading the "health insurance reform" bill to detainees. Aloud. In a whiny, officious voice, with lots of disdainful sniffing.

They'll crack in no time...

Posted by mojo 2009-08-24 17:47|| 2009-08-24 17:47|| Front Page Top

#16 ION CHINESE MIL FORUM > [YouTube]VIDEO: MEDIA BLACKOUT OF CIVIL UNREST IN CENTRAL CALIFORNIA!?

POSTER > opined unrest due to failure of SACRAMENTO = CA STATE GOVT, etc. to prepare for LT STATE WATER DROUGHT [lack of enuff drinking + agriculture reservoirs].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-08-24 19:51|| NA]">[NA] 2009-08-24 19:51|| Front Page Top

#17 mojo,

So you want Ried to read it to them?

Posted by Hellfish 2009-08-24 20:45|| 2009-08-24 20:45|| Front Page Top

#18 The interrogation squads now work directly for the president...we'll call them Democratic Guards.

Posted by Skidmark 2009-08-24 21:21|| 2009-08-24 21:21|| Front Page Top

#19 ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > MULLEN: AL QAEDA "VERY CAPABLE" OF MORE ATTACKS, includ agz USA.

* SAME > SRI LANKA: LTTE TRIED TO PURCHASE NUCLEAR WEAPONS FROM THE WEST [wid likely Nuctechs, etc. Transference to vari international MilTerr Groups].

* THENEWS.PK > IRAN TELLS WORLD POWERS TO STOP COUNTERING ITS N-DRIVE; + DPRK MUST SCRAP ITS NUKES [US-Allies].

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-08-24 22:53|| na]">[na] 2009-08-24 22:53|| Front Page Top

#20 OOOOPSIES, forgot REDDIT > seems RELEASED LOCKERBIE PRISONER MEGRAHI is planning to write a book indic that it was an AMERICAN WHOM PLANNED THE LOCKERBIE ATTACK.

Also, THE NEWS.PK > US DOES NOT RULE OUT QADHAFI-OBAMA TALKS, espec wid LIBYA = HEAD OF THE UNO GENERAL ASSEMBLY this year.

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-08-24 22:57|| na]">[na] 2009-08-24 22:57|| Front Page Top

#21 E.g. ORIGINAL "STAR WARS" > always said it made no sense for character LUKE to carry a LIGHTSABER + BLASTER, but NOT any FLOATING COMBAT-DEFENSE ORB(s) nor PERSONAL BODY EM SHIELDS.

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-08-24 23:10|| na]">[na] 2009-08-24 23:10|| Front Page Top

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