These torture files are all just a "dog & pony" show to keep Americans distracted from what is really going on. A 3.7 TRILLION dollar budget that has already passed the house, & is sitting in the senate.
To PROVE THE POINT:
1. Nancy Pelosi (on the board of 8 on the intelligence committee) attended over 30 meetings during 2002--regarding the enhanced interrogation technics--which include waterboarding. When asked on Friday about it -- she stated: "Yes she was informed about these technics--but did not know they were using them."
2. Ted Kennedy in 2005 tried to get waterboarding--which was acceptable under authorization stopped because he believe it to be torture. He didn't get anywhere because the congress did not consider waterboarding torture.
3. Around the same time--2005-- President Bush asked congress to "define" torture as the law in place was vague. He wanted congress--" to give strict guidelines-"-for intelligence agencies to avoid the threat of prosecution. "There is video on this statement".
4. Congress lead by NANCY PELOSI--"never" gave the Bush administration a new "torture" definition--which would have concluded that waterboarding was torture.
Approximately 3 weeks ago, under the Obama administration, Eric Holder declared that waterboarding was torture.
Now--the whole country is up in arms over these torture files. The Obama administration may be releasing 47 pictures to the ACLU who will then plaster these pictures all over the news. Remember 6 soldiers at Abu Graibe. That made 24/7 news coverage for two months!
This tactic is simply being used again--to distract the American public from what is really going on within the Obama administration.
They, in essense have politicised National Security for a smoke screen. Now--whether it works is a different thing.
First of all, you won't find many that object to waterboarding the master mind of the 9/11 attacks. Second--this may have played out in democrat popularity with Abu Graide--so will it work again. Third--by doing this, American public opinion may look at Obama as a President who is weak on terror, & is wiling to sacrifice the safety of their kids, for his "moral clarity"--while the enemy who seeks to kill Americans in mass--has no morality what-so-ever.
