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Obama admits torture abuse after 9/11 (of course it wasn't HIS administration!) - Drew Phipps - 01-08-2014
From news 8/1/14:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/01/barack-obama-torture-folk_n_5642609.html?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D510029
Obama: 'We Tortured Some Folks' After 9/11 And We Have To Take Responsibility For It
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama bluntly acknowledged on Friday that the United States conducted torture in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. "I was very clear that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong," he said. "We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values."
"We crossed the line and that needs to be understood and accepted. And we have to, as a country, take responsibility for that so we don't do it in the future," he added. Addressing reporters at the White House, Obama commented on a Senate investigation into enhanced interrogation techniques conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency. The investigation is expected to be declassified some time in August.
According to a new CIA Inspector General's Office report, agency employees in 2009 hacked Senate computers being used to compile the investigation. Some lawmakers on the Hill are calling for CIA Director John Brennan to resign over the matter, but Obama deflected those concerns on Friday. "I have full confidence in John Brennan," he said.
Obama admits torture abuse after 9/11 (of course it wasn't HIS administration!) - Albert Doyle - 01-08-2014
And we killed the Kennedy's.
Obama admits torture abuse after 9/11 (of course it wasn't HIS administration!) - Tracy Riddle - 02-08-2014
Again the portrayal of this event as some sort of aberration in an otherwise moral country. Tell that to the Filipinos waterboarded after the Spanish-American War, or the Vietnamese tortured during the Phoenix Program.
Obama admits torture abuse after 9/11 (of course it wasn't HIS administration!) - Albert Doyle - 02-08-2014
This is probably just some move designed to repair government credibility.
Obama had his opportunity to take action against the torture traitors when he first took office. He pardoned them.