Bush didn't know about torture until 2006? Is that possible?

[occupied]

Plausible deniability has been SOP for a long time to protect the president from governmental illegality. I think it is not only possible but probable.

 

[Staidhup]

So? and you think the President knows every detail of whats going on in government? remember your talking about one if not the largest bureaucracies in the world, maybe that's part of the problem? Get a freaking life. As for the CIA, let them do their job. As for the high road, fantasy land, talk to any former POW that has served his country, you need to get a taste of reality. Interesting in that when the current Presidents administration is in complete shambles the Dem's go on a witch hunt and focus on events of 8 years ago?
What some of you fail to recognize is terrorism is not conventional war, furthermore, the rules of war are invalid and as long as terrorists slaughter and behead at will they are subject to interrogation and what ever else happens when captured.

 

[2aguy]

Okay, Nodog....don't respond to the fact that General Washington...who you piously quoted, hanged British spies....why...they were unlawful combatants .....of course....he had his own spy rings as well...and if they had been caught, they would have been hung as well....

 

[2aguy]

And some more about why the spy was hung by George Washington....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_André

On 29 September 1780, the board found André guilty of being behind American lines "under a feigned name and in a disguised habit" and ordered that "Major André, Adjutant-General to the British Army, ought to be considered as a Spy from the enemy, and that agreeable to the law and usage of nations, it is their opinion, he ought to suffer death."[6]

 

[Dana7360]

How is that possible? Was he that inept that he didn't know what was going on in his own adminstration until the Democrats gained a majority in congress? Really?

And the Bush administration was afraid to tell Powell? Because they knew he would go ballistic?

Huh?

I knew Bush was inept, but I never dreamed.............................

Whoever said that or claimed that is nothing but a liar.

We all knew about it in 2004 when it was first reported in the press.

I guess the person who was telling that lie didn't know that colon powell retired in 2004 so if the bush boy learned about the torture in 2006 why would he even think about colon powell?

 

[OnePercenter]

I think it's very plausible as President Cheney kept baby bush out of the chain on most things.

 

[2aguy]

You know why they say Bush didn't know....because if Bush knew, they knew...because as part of the Senate Select committee on Intelligence, feinstein...the witch...recieved the same info. the President did....so they have to say Bush didn't know so they can't be held to account.....

After all...this is about smearing Bush and the CIA, not the democrats.....

 

[Roadrunner]

In all fairness, Bush may not have even realized he was President until 2006 so you'll have to take that into consideration.

The "S" stands for stupid, right?

 

[Roadrunner]

I didn't know about torture until I saw this post.

What torture?

No worse than old time swimming lessons when old Coach Hickey held you under, and told you to blow air out of your nose until he let you up, OR DIE!

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

So did all the Dems now whining about it, they were briefed constantly... they knew, they approved.

Scumbags.

 

[2aguy]

When the democrat media decides to report that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence got the exact briefings Bush did, and that they not only knew what they were doing but approved of the most minute of details of what was going on, and likely insisted on it....will the democrat media just move on and forget it....of course they will......

 

[Luddly Neddite]

How is that possible? Was he that inept that he didn't know what was going on in his own adminstration until the Democrats gained a majority in congress? Really?

And the Bush administration was afraid to tell Powell? Because they knew he would go ballistic?

Huh?

I knew Bush was inept, but I never dreamed.............................

he still can't ride a bike , has problems sitting on a couch, and walking through a door ... so yeah, its possible.

on the wounded warrior bike rides he seems hang in there......

Did you say Wounded Warrior ?

 

[2aguy]

You do realize that the New York Times confirmed that there were WMD in Iraq...they came out with that a couple weeks ago....but please....6 years into the failed Presidency of obama...keep bashing Bush....I know...it is all you libs have....

 

[2aguy]

Another take down of the democrat smear of the CIA and Bush....

Torturing the Truth National Review Online

But a full and fair accounting of such policies wasn’t what committee chairman Dianne Feinstein and other Democrats set out for. Republicans on the committee soon realized this and quit the effort. It’s simply impossible to conduct a fair investigation without interviewing its subjects, and Senate Democrats did not do so. That is how, for instance, the report concluded decisively that enhanced interrogation didn’t provide significant help in the search for Osama bin Laden — while top CIA officials universally, and credibly, maintain it did.

The decision to pervert this investigation was driven in some part, surely, by vindictiveness over a perceived lack of cooperation from the CIA — perhaps a real problem, but certainly not one to be solved like this — and by a still-burning desire to discredit Bush-era policies. (Or rather, Bush-era policies besides those that the Obama administration has decided to continue.)

 

[Harry Dresden]

How is that possible? Was he that inept that he didn't know what was going on in his own adminstration until the Democrats gained a majority in congress? Really?

And the Bush administration was afraid to tell Powell? Because they knew he would go ballistic?

Huh?

I knew Bush was inept, but I never dreamed.............................

he still can't ride a bike , has problems sitting on a couch, and walking through a door ... so yeah, its possible.

on the wounded warrior bike rides he seems hang in there......

Did you say Wounded Warrior ?

it was about the bike riding Ludd......but anyhow....so why is the guy running with him Luddy?.....if he felt the way you are depicting it....would he be running with the man?...would you?....i wouldnt...but he is...so maybe he and many like him dont share that sentiment.....just sayin.....

 

[NYcarbineer]

You do realize that the New York Times confirmed that there were WMD in Iraq...they came out with that a couple weeks ago....but please....6 years into the failed Presidency of obama...keep bashing Bush....I know...it is all you libs have....

There were no WMD's.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Abu Ghraib was headline news by 2004. Where was Bush then?