Jose Rodriquez: No Regrets/Hard Measures

[mudwhistle]

Obama wanted to prosecute these guys for doing the best they could to gather intel from KSM and other terrorists that were involved in the planning of 9/11.

Obama said that finding and killing Osama Bin Laden was the only goal in the war on terror.

It's arguable that without the work of Jose Rodriquez and others they never would have found Bin Laden.

The left has made sure that "Waterboarding" cannot be used on prisoners anymore. It's still being used as a training technique in the SERE course at Camp McCall NC, but it cannot be used on folks that want to kill us.

What is funny is Lesley Stahl even thinks that playing with prisoner's diet is terrible...absolutely archaic.

Maybe we should have bought them a friggen Happy Meal.



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjhE_dDsqJ8&feature=related]Ex-CIA officer defends interrogation tactics - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC9PP94f4OQ&feature=related]Hard Measures, part 1 - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roS4LeUvny8&feature=related]Hard Measures, part 2 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[mudwhistle]

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[old navy]

Hopefully they saved the water and the boards as they will come in handy in the future. The outrage over a little spritzing and calorie manipulation is laughable. KSM was a fat SOB. Feeding him Ensure was good for him.

I went through worse during my Chief's initiation.

 

[mudwhistle]

In 2005, while head of the Clandestine Service, Rodriguez ordered that video tape recordings of two 2002 CIA interrogations be destroyed.[28] CIA officials initially stated that the recordings were destroyed to protect the identity of the interrogators, after they were no longer of intelligence value to any investigations.[29] "He would always say, 'I'm not going to let my people get nailed for something they were ordered to do,' " said Robert Richer, Rodriguez's deputy recalling conversations with his boss about the tapes.[30] It was later revealed that the deputy to Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, then Executive Director of the CIA, wrote in an e-mail that Rodriguez thought "the heat from destroying is nothing compared to what it would be if the tapes ever got into public domain – he said that out of context they would make us look terrible; it would be 'devastating' to us."[31]

The tapes reportedly showed two men held in CIA custody, Abu Zubaida and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri,[32] being subjected to a program of 'enhanced' interrogation techniques which included a procedure called "waterboarding". Critics allege these methods amount to torture and the tapes were evidence both protected by court order and the 9/11 Commission.[33][34] Although Rodriguez's record has come under scrutiny after it was reported that the destruction of the videotapes was allegedly in defiance of orders from then-CIA Director Porter Goss. .[35]

Jose Rodriguez (intelligence officer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Seems that Democrats were talking of using video evidence to discredit Bush. Some even wanted to tarnish our image in the eyes of the world. He decided that he wasn't going to allow Democrats or anyone else to use the videos to attack his people.