(2007-10-06) — According a newly-leaked top-secret document published in The New York Times ‘Classified’ section today, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has employed controversial methods to extract information from terror suspects, including threats to put the detainee in front of a Senate committee for further interrogation.
If true, it means that U.S. agents may be using a technique “tantamount to torture,” an unnamed source told the Times.
“I’ve seen those Senate hearings on TV,” the source said. “I’d rather be waterboarded, slapped about the head and assaulted with high-volume Britney Spears music while confined to a meat locker.”
President Bush refused to confirm or deny the new allegations, saying only: “We use humane methods that have proven fruitful for gathering intelligence. So, that don’t make any sense.”
Mr. Bush added that if, in the future, the U.S. did decide to subject terror suspects to Senate hearings, “at least no one would accuse us of using sleep deprivation.”
45 responses so far ↓
1 gafisher // Oct 6, 2007 at 8:27 am
No, not a manner reminiscent of Jengis Khan! I’ll talk! I’ll talk!
2 gafisher // Oct 6, 2007 at 8:28 am
God Blessed America!
… but we wasted it.
3 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 6, 2007 at 8:33 am
“According a newly-leaked top-secret document published in The New York Times ‘Classified’ section.”
Ahh, now ain’t that precious! I love it Scott
4 Fred Sinclair // Oct 6, 2007 at 9:04 am
Scott by far and away one of your best sentences, to date. (I love it!)“at least no one would accuse us of using sleep deprivation.”
Heirborn Ranger
5 conserve-a-tips // Oct 6, 2007 at 9:19 am
Wow. Does that mean that they will be subjected to Hillary’s laugh, there in the Senate? That is torture.
6 random // Oct 6, 2007 at 10:06 am
sHillarys’ laugh or Bushs’ macho pen? hmmm. Torture the ears or torture the children? Senate hearings have nothing on them two!
7 RedPepper // Oct 6, 2007 at 10:53 am
This interrogation method would clearly be a violation of the Geneva Convention …
8 gafisher // Oct 6, 2007 at 11:02 am
And you know what happens at Conventions …
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10 Fred Sinclair // Oct 6, 2007 at 1:15 pm
O/T - Mr. “There is no God” Evolutionist - What is the consensus of Evolutionary Scientist on why it is that the human being is the only animal on the planet that can blush? Or has any reason to do so?
Heirborn Ranger
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12 INJUSTICE PREVAILS // Oct 6, 2007 at 4:02 pm
The war on terror and the war in Iraq will be the first wars in history definitively “WON” by the United States military, and “LOST” by a malicious misleading and intentionally detrimental left wing senate.
Honorable men and woman who are fighting and dieing in Iraq and Afghanistan while the left wing senate and the leaders of the left wing mass news media are undermining their every effort to win.
The United States Military has “NOT” lost a single battle, firefight or confrontation in Iraq, and I challenge anyone to prove otherwise.
The only lost war is the war left wing senate created in their self-serving anti American, anti military and anti Bush delusional minds.
TO EACH OF YOU
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority leader Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, Dick Durban, Chuck Schumer, Russell Feingold, Barak Obama and Barbara Boxer et al
Damn you all to ____.
13 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 6, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Okay.
Now, tell us how you really feel.
14 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 6, 2007 at 5:57 pm
The pseudo-snarky “journalistic” pseudo-style of the NYT makes it impossible for me to allow my retinas and optic nerves to be exposed to its newsprint for more than a nanosecond per annum.
That ain’t journalism.
FYI: The side-effects of overexposure are too horrible to even mention.
15 Effeminem // Oct 6, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Well, it doesn’t matter what the reality of the situation in Iraq is.
“History is written by the losers at CNN.”
16 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 6, 2007 at 6:37 pm
The smell of sulphur permeated…..
Snow: Heh.
Letterman: Heh.
Snow: Heh-heh.
Letterman: Heh-heh.
Snow: Heh-heh. Heh.
Letterman: Heh-heh. Heh.
Fade to black, as the studio audience files out on tip-toe.
~~caption to the photo found Here
17 Analchord // Oct 6, 2007 at 8:36 pm
What is the mission of US troops in Iraq? Are you suggesting that there is no mission other than to randomly select terrorist lookalikes and force them to listen to couched phrases and long winded introductions to lazily formed inquiries, all the while being subject to seeing those infernal interns sitting behind the senators trying to look uninterested? What constitutes an offensive campaign in this war, English class?
If we surrendered our flag pins, who would we surrender to? The Kurds? I hate the Kurds, cant we surrender to the renegade remnants of the former bathist regime who at least wore lapels upon which they could pin the damn things?
If we won the Iraq War tonight, what would the immediate linguistical consequences for the surrendering Iraqis?
18 Darthmeister // Oct 6, 2007 at 9:46 pm
Senate hearings? I’d slit my wrist and flush my Koran down the toilet, too. Not necessarily in that order.
“Progressives” are praying for Bush and Cheney.
What hateful wankers. I still remember when Bill Clinton had his heart surgery how Scrapplers prayed for a quick recovery and for God to give grace to Hillary and Chelsea during what had to have been a very scary time.
Though we have our political disagreement with those on the other side of the aisle we don’t pray for evil to befall our political antagonists. Not so the “progressives”. And if a few hundred say it then millions think it. Shows you what world-class lying hypocrites they are, always talking about a world filled with peace, compassion, blah, blah, blah yet rarely practicing it in their own lives. As the ol’ axiom goes: Liberals love humanity but hate people (especially those who won’t submit to their collective insanity).
19 Darthmeister // Oct 6, 2007 at 9:53 pm
I think what Republican Supreme Court nominees have to suffer before the pinhead Democrats in the Senate constitutes torture … or at least cruel and unusual punishment.
Oooops, sorry. I guess what the Donks do by slandering the likes of Robert Bork, Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Samuel Alito is not so unusual after all. My bad.
20 Analchord // Oct 6, 2007 at 10:06 pm
This website blows donkey dong. You morons write the same formula for the same article for the same comments day after day. Each blogger trying to out-maroon the other. Here’s to success. Exit stage left. bwa
21 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 6, 2007 at 11:00 pm
Has anyone seen my appendix? I’ve been looking for it for about 54 years…..I know it’s around here somewhere…..
22 RedPepper // Oct 6, 2007 at 11:31 pm
JL3: Have you looked for it behind you?
It may have just exited stage left …
23 The Word-Drum // Oct 7, 2007 at 2:07 am
“trying to out moroon…”
Justice Thomas certainly has a case for The ACLU.
But just imagine endless hours of Sen. Byrd, only punctutated by Chuck Schumer - the slow drip and the needle.
“Osama’s hiding in Hollywood…
at Shawn Penn’s estate. I give up.”
24 gafisher // Oct 7, 2007 at 6:40 am
“What about ma’ runes?”
……………………….. Odin
25 gafisher // Oct 7, 2007 at 6:51 am
“Waddaya mean your ruins?”
………………………………… Zeus
26 conserve-a-tips // Oct 7, 2007 at 9:41 am
Well, given that the media has a penchant for taking things out of context and not allowing people to fully explain themselves, I am hesitant to jump on this but usually the source is pretty accurate.
If this is true, I am troubled by the president’s view of things. Until Christians recognize that there is and never will be “peace between men” here on this earth, but rather that there is and always will be “peace among men” ie. Jesus Christ’s peace within, then Satan’s red herring is going to be the focus rather than recognizing that man cannot “just get along” without hearts changed by the acceptance of Christ.
27 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 7, 2007 at 10:12 am
Years of whiskey and drugs have not paid off well for the 70 year-old Merle Haggard. In a Washington Post interview:
In the new “What Happened?” you wonder where America went. Any theories? (song)
“In the last 10 years, we’ve lost most of what we claim to be fighting for. We have a police state — helicopters flying above houses, looking to see if they can see some marijuana. America has gone downhill.”
Hmm, them thar heliocopters are lookin fer ya, they is? Oh, by the way, he is a rather vocal Clinton fan. And if that doesn’t prove hard living is bad for you, then I don’t know what does.
28 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 7, 2007 at 10:22 am
c.a.t.
Muslims believe they pray to the father of Abraham, but that is where they exit from the historic God of Israel. The word tells us they parted and hiked away. (To the mountain of Mohamed I guess).
Though I believe Bush is a Christian, I also think his beliefs are rather liberal because of the faith he aspires to. I won’t mention any church because the freedom to worship is way to great for me to denigrate here
29 gafisher // Oct 7, 2007 at 10:37 am
Ms. RW Re#27:
hag·gard /ˈhægərd/ –adjective
1. having a gaunt, wasted, or exhausted appearance, as from prolonged suffering, exertion, or anxiety.
(Biting lower lip, feeling our pain.)
30 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 7, 2007 at 12:15 pm
That’s why I enjoy this blog; so many of us are on the same page, bringing, each of us, our own personal nuances of character to the matters at hand.
I am not alone!
RE: #26~~
conserve-a-tips~~
Exactly. The Lord is not the least bit impressed by those who choose to tip-toe around “inconvenient” passages of Scripture in order to “get along” or to fill pews.
While there is no excuse for such behavior, the opportunity is always there for repentance.
Amen and Hallelu Yah! and stuff…..
31 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 7, 2007 at 12:20 pm
I apologize for my presumptuous useage of the word “us” in my previous comment.
32 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 7, 2007 at 12:21 pm
And “our.”
33 onlineanalyst // Oct 7, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Oh, no! Not the dreaded Senate hearings! The windy bloviations of Senators Kennedy, Biden, Schumer, Levin, Kerry, Byrd, Specter, etc. are apt to blow the sorry detainee into the nostrils of Senator Henry Waxman, never to be seen again. Talk about black sites…
34 Beerme // Oct 7, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Speaking of a technique “tantamount to torture,” did anyone see the Lions game today?
Pesky Redskins!
35 Beerme // Oct 7, 2007 at 5:21 pm
Uhh, hello!!!
36 Beerme // Oct 7, 2007 at 5:21 pm
ola,
Now those are black holes…
37 Darthmeister // Oct 7, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Gee, if @n@lchord wants to be entertained by some really diverse opinions, he could always tune in to Keith Olbermann when he’s off his lithium or make daily forays into demoncrapunderground.com. Round that out with a little Art Bell and Chris Matthews, it ought to be a real knee slappin’ day. Little doubt AC would certainly get caught up on the latest Black Helicopter conspiracy theories.
38 Darthmeister // Oct 7, 2007 at 6:07 pm
… Olbermann stole my post!
39 JamesonLewis3rd // Oct 7, 2007 at 6:12 pm
It turns out that the pathetic, waif-like 12-year-old who gave the Democrats’ weekly radio address last week is, in reality, a multi-millionaire.
Okay. Not really but almost.
40 Darthmeister // Oct 7, 2007 at 6:25 pm
From the I- kid-you-not files:
Liberal journalists justify why they don’t report good news from Iraq.
It’s all about “tricky numbers!
41 Darthmeister // Oct 7, 2007 at 6:26 pm
… drats!
42 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 7, 2007 at 8:57 pm
Darthmeister
When Bush quits hiring staff like this. Poor girl (and that is just about the truth) can’t sleep at night. Zeech, then why did she have a job like that.
“It had been four days since Meghan O’Sullivan left her job at the White House. Just four days since she gave up her Secret Service pass, her classified hard drive and her entree to the president. Four days since she gave up any day-to-day responsibility for Iraq.
Too soon, evidently, for the dreams to end. “In fact, I was dreaming about Iraq last night,” she said. “And I woke up and thought, ‘When do you think this will stop?’ ” ”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/06/AR2007100601521
It is rather humorous if you read the article. I don’t know whether the writer was ripping her or Karl Rove.
But I hope O’Sullivan gets some sleep so she can write her book
43 Ms RightWing, Ink // Oct 7, 2007 at 8:58 pm
Sorry, the article won’t show but it was the lead story at the Washington Roast, er Post. You can read it there
44 onlineanalyst // Oct 8, 2007 at 8:03 am
D’oh! Waxman is a Representative, not a Senator. Waxman just makes the bullets that the Senators fire, somewhat like the Iranians do for the Iraqi insurgents.
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