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Colin Powell's Disgrace

August 31, 2011

In former Vice President Dick Cheney's memoir, titled 'In My Time', Cheney accurately stated that Richard Armitage of the State Deparment was the person who originally leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to reporter Bob Novak. Novak subsequently published that information, outing Plame's identity. Armitage's boss at the time was Secretary Of State, [...]

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Did Enhanced Interrogations Help Get Bin Laden ?

May 6, 2011

There's been a hypothesis floating around that the enhanced interrogation techniques implemented by President Bush following 9/11 may have helped get Osama Bin Laden. If you ask the politicians, you get two answers – 1) politicians who are against enhanced interrogation techniques say they didn't help, and 2) politicians who favor enhanced interrogations say they [...]

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Left-Wing Wikileakers

November 30, 2010

The founder of the Wikileaks website is a left-wing anti-war guy named Julian Assange. He has made public hundreds of thousands of classified U.S. documents. His first round of military document releases a few months ago identified hundreds of Afghan civilian informants who were assisting the U.S. against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, putting those [...]

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Marines – Beware Of Hot Women

July 3, 2010

Above are photos of Anna Chapman, who has been accused of being a Russian spy. Security officials have warned U.S. Marines taking shore leave – these hotties may be out to get you: U.S. Marines preparing for shore leave in the Seychelles islands were having a standard security briefing this week when they were shown [...]

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Terrorist Interrogation Methods Worked. Was It Worth It ?

August 25, 2009

With the release of the CIA Inspector General's (IG) 2004 report about Bush-era interrogation of terrorists, I assume you've all heard what the media wants you to hear – that one terrorist was threatened with a loaded gun and a power drill, that a pretend execution of a terrorist was carried out to get another [...]

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The New Interrogation Methods

May 11, 2009

"Every one of us can imagine the following scenario: We get lucky; we get the No. 3 guy in al-Qaida, and we know there's a big bomb going off in America in three days and this guy knows where it is. We have the right and the responsibility to beat it out of him." – [...]

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Politics First, National Security Second

April 27, 2009

In it's first 100 days, the Obama administration has shifted gears on national security issues. Does political ideology now trump national security ? Here are a few things to think about. – The release of the Bush OLC "torture" memos. There was NO reason to release those memos, other than political ones. Obama cited a [...]

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Pelosi Lies About Waterboarding Knowledge

April 24, 2009

House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who was the ranking House Democrat on the Intelligence Committee in 2002-2003, when the enhanced interrogation techniques were used on high-level Al Qaeda detainees, says……she didn't know nuthin' 'bout no waterboardin'. Bull. Crap. From the New York Times: As was common with the most secret programs, the C.I.A. chose [...]

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CIA Terrorist Interrogations Saved Lives

April 22, 2009

Speaking of the enhanced interrogation techniques used against high-level terrorists like Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks), President Obama said America must maintain it's ideals and values "even when it's hard." Obama has banned the techniques. Here are real life examples of how "hard" it can get. From CNSNews: After KSM was [...]

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Cheney Wants Results Of Interrogations Released

April 21, 2009

Thanks for opening up this can of worms, President Obama. Now that the Bush legal memos about harsh interrogation techniques have been made public by the Obama administration, former Vice President Dick Cheney wants the results of those interrogations released as well. Here's Cheney talking to Fox News: "One of the things that I find [...]

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Obama Releases Bush Legal Memos

April 17, 2009

President Obama has declassified and publicly released memos from the Justice Department's Office Of Legal Counsel (OLC) to the Bush Administration. The memos were sent between 2002 and 2005, and discussed opinions on the legality of aggressive, controversial interrogation techniques proposed for use by the CIA on terrorist detainees, specifically, techniques to be used to [...]

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Leahy's Truth Squad

February 11, 2009

Senator Pat Leahy (D-VT) wants to launch an investigation into all the Bush administration's unseemly activities, such as – firing 8 U.S. attorneys, wiretapping without warrants, and misleading the public about those weapons of mass destruction. Leahy would call his investigation a "Truth Commission." Leahy said "a person or group" of "fair-minded" individuals could be [...]

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