Sigh!
Not only am I appalled and ashamed, but AmeriKa is a criminal nation.
"White House defends use of waterboarding; Says interrogation tactic may be OK'd in future probes" by Jennifer Loven, Associated Press | February 7, 2008
But we don't torture!
The guy is still "reserving" the "right," huh?
WASHINGTON - The White House yesterday defended the use of the interrogation technique known as waterboarding, saying it is legal - not torture as critics argue - and has saved American lives.
The scale of outright and bald-faced lying surpasses even my profane verbiage, readers!
If it is NOT torture, maybe Bush, Cheney, Rice and the rest of you fascista fucks wouldn't mind GIVING the waterboard a ride, right?
Fucking SICKENING LEADERSHIP AmeriKa has!
President Bush could authorize waterboarding for future terrorism suspects if certain criteria are met, a spokesman said.
A day earlier, the Bush administration acknowledged publicly for the first time that the tactic was used by US government questioners on three terror suspects.
Bit WE DON'T TORTURE!
Thump-thump-thump!
Hey, Orwell, quit knocking your head against that casket!
Testifying before Congress, CIA Director Michael Hayden said Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubayda, and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri were waterboarded in 2002 and 2003.
Waterboarding involves strapping a suspect down and pouring water over his cloth-covered face to create the sensation of drowning.
It has been traced back hundreds of years, to the Spanish Inquisition, and is condemned by nations around the world.
But NOT the U.S. of A.!!
Aren't you PROUD, shit-chewing 'murkn?
Hayden banned the technique in 2006 for CIA interrogations, the Pentagon has banned its employees from using it, and FBI Director Robert Mueller said his investigators do not use coercive tactics in interviewing terror suspects.
Uh-huh!
Senate Democrats demanded a criminal investigation after Hayden's disclosure.
Which will go the way all DemocraPic investigations go -- NOWHERE!
Bush personally authorized Hayden's testimony, White House deputy spokesman Tony Fratto said.
WTF?! Had to ASK the dictator what he could testify to?
This fucking mass-murdering maniac is OUT-OF-CONTROL, readers!
Sig Heil!
"There's been a lot written out there - newspaper, magazine articles, some of it misinformation," Fratto said. "And so the consensus was that on this one particular technique that these officials would have the opportunity to address them - in not just a public setting, but in a setting in front of members of Congress, and to be very clear about how those techniques were used and what the benefits were of them."
Yeah, all supplied by YOU FUCKING LIARS!!!!
Unbelievable that this shitstink fuck is bitching about the cock-sucking U.S. MSM!!!!
Fratto said CIA interrogators could use waterboarding again, but would need the president's approval to do so.
Then we can JAIL that LYING LAW-BREAKERS ASS!!!!
That approval would "depend on the circumstances," with one important factor being "belief that an attack might be imminent," Fratto said. Appropriate members of Congress would be notified in such a case, he said.
Pffffffffttt!
Fuck you and your "imminent Al-CIA-Duh" attack!
"The president will listen to the considered judgment of the professionals in the intelligence community and the judgment of the attorney general in terms of the legal consequences of employing a particular technique," he said. "The president will listen to his advisers and make a determination."
Like he did on the NIE and Iran?
Well, fuck that maniacal, mass-murdering asshole!!!!
Fratto said waterboarding's use in the past was also approved by the attorney general, meaning it was legal and not torture.
Officials fear calling waterboarding torture or illegal could expose government employees to criminal or civil charges or even international war crimes charges.
Which they ARE!
And so are the AUTHORIZATIONS!!!!!!
"Every enhanced technique that has been used by the Central Intelligence Agency for this program was brought to the Department of Justice and they made a determination that its use under specific circumstances and with safeguards was lawful," Fratto said.
And why is it lawful?
Because the CRIMINALS SAY IT IS?
Orwell, quit turning in that coffin!
Critics say waterboarding has been outlawed under the UN's Convention Against Torture, which prohibits treatment resulting in long-term physical or mental damage.
Then it is ILLEGAL and a WAR CRIME, dammit!
WHEN is this administration going to be held accountable for ANYTHING, hanh!!!!????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They also say it should be recognized as banned under the US 2006 Military Commissions Act, which prohibits treatment of terror suspects that is described as "cruel, inhuman, and degrading."
The act, however, does not explicitly prohibit waterboarding by name."
Well, you KNOW it when you EXPERIENCE IT, don't you?
Even that slimy shit Mukasey said it was torture!
So maybe U.S. government officials wouldn't mind taking a ride, would they?
Hey, it ain't torture, so what's the problem?
It'll be FUN!
