grace12:39PMDec 19th 2007

my vote is between Edwards and McCain the rest can't be trusted

Pete1:31PMDec 19th 2007

It is not surprising the Times is reporting just enough information to mislead millions who don't have the inclination, time or intrest to believe otherwise.

The Times has not made an issue over the fact many top Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, Jane Harman, Bob Graham and Jay Rockerfeller, among others, were briefed by the CIA in September 2002 on the interrogation program and the techniques being used.

Evidently, just one year after 9/11, there was enough uncertainty on what al-Qaida may do next Democrats did't seem to have a problem with it.

The Times has not made an issue over the fact waterboarding was among the techniques described to these top Democrats at this briefing way back in 2002.

The Times has not made an issue over the fact U.S. law requires such briefings and another was held the following month followed by 28 more briefings over the next five years.

The Times has not said much about how well informed
Democrats were on waterboarding all along. Ted Kennedy felt secure in the publics ignorance to proclaim, in grandiose style, "We haven't seen anything like this since the 18-minute gap on the tapes of Richard Nixon."

In compliance with U.S. law so many have been informed some have used this information for political gain. These sources within the government put politics before patriotism and leaked national security secrets to the media for political gain. Interogation techniques like waterboarding and the NSA's terrorist surveillance program should never have been made public.

It's worth noting that the tapes were destroyed right around the time the New York Times and Washington Post were spilling the beans about secret CIA prisons, the existence of the NSA surveillance program, etc. (IBD Waterboardgate? 12/11/07)

Clearly there was a mole leaking this information to the media for political gain. With many Democrats briefed nearly 30 times on this program and no doubt transcripts of these interrogations exist so why not destroy these tapes? The video images could only be useful for political gain, anti-American propaganda or terrorist training on our interogation techniqes.

The blame America first N.Y. Times may well have relished releasing these images to create another Abhu Ghraib scandal and portray America, rather than the terrorists, as the real enemy.
Denied that opportunity the Times, like Ted Kennedy, is playing on the publics ignorance to create a scandal for political gain.

daddy327911:59PMDec 19th 2007

BULLSHIT PETE!!!!!

Frank Gehlbach2:01PMDec 19th 2007

The Abhu Ghraib Scandal was created by the BUSH !!!!

Pete2:46PMDec 19th 2007

Thats what I like about BDS suffering Bush hating liberals, the spirted, intelligent, and factual conversation.

Cecil Jones6:07PMDec 19th 2007

The purpose of waterboarding is to obtain information that could not be obtained in casual conversation. What did the Bush administration do with this information? They destroyed it to protect the individuals who obtained it? On face value, this stinks. What's the problem? If America is the highest authority responsible for investigating itself, then America is above the law. We have no law and that makes us a "Terrorist State." Congress knows it must demand accountability or we will never recover. We cannot allow another election to be tainted with the lies and insecurity shared by this administration and the memory of 9-11. We must be "Fearless!"

Pete7:16PMDec 22nd 2007

Democrats have tried to make an issue out of waterboarding and have been unable to get any traction or outrage from the public.

A picture is worth a thousand words. The public would find images of waterboarding just as distasteful as images of people falling 70 80 or 90 stories to the pavement on 9/11.

These video images of waterboarding could be be used by our left leaning media to nullify our success in Iraq.
Democrats could saturate the news and and use the publics distaste of this interrogation method to create a "scandel" they have done nothing to stop and have known about all along.

Since the N.Y. Times has printed a retraction on this story we must indeed be "Fearless" and not ill-informed.

Ethan Holub2:04PMDec 23rd 2007

"Does the Media have anything productive to do these days? When will they stop trying to please the people and start bringing truth again?" -Ethan Holub

Bob V6:50PMDec 24th 2007

GOD BLESS GEORGE W BUSH