Thursday, May 14, 2009

Obama Administration Refuses to Release Results of Harsh Interrogation Techniques

Not surprising. 

WASHINGTON - The CIA says it has denied a request by former Vice President Dick Cheney to declassify secret internal government memos that detail whether valuable intelligence was gained from the use of harsh interrogation techniques under the Bush administration.

CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano said Thursday that the request was turned down because the documents are the subject of pending litigation — making them not subject to declassification.

“For that reason — and that reason only — CIA did not accept Mr. Cheney’s request for a Mandatory Declassification Review,” said Gimigliano.

(3) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1727 hrs
Politics + Politics - General

  1. Just because we got all kinds of good information is no reason to make them public.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 14, 2009 at 2220 hrs


  2. Other than the fact that it would blow the idea of “Techniques other than asking nicely can never get information that is valuable, trustworthy, or even useful” out of the water. The basic fallback tenet of the liberal argument is that even if we were all on the level legally, morally, and justifiably, with the interrogations, it was pointless because all of the studies point to the fact that they never result in good information…If the documentation shows we got good information then the left may have to rethink it’s position and either agree that this was not torture in the classical sense, or that it was but it saved many lives.

    I suspect that in a while we will see that anyway due to the fact that many high level dems are twisting in the wind about what they knew when…

    Posted by fishaddict on May 15, 2009 at 0918 hrs


  3. I’d love to see this info ‘leaked’ now…

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on May 15, 2009 at 0924 hrs


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