May 30. 2009

Dick Cheney

Former Vice President, Dick Cheney, is again proving he cannot be trusted, lying in Halliburton butt off, via claims the government extracted pertinent information from terror suspects using illegal torture methods.

The head of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Carl Levin, stated the CIA memos Cheney boasts of do not reflect any such information. He stated the CIA memos, "Say nothing about numbers of lives saved, nor do the documents connect acquisition of valuable intelligence to the use of abusive techniques."  

On the contrary, an FBI agent that denounced torture stated, he was able to gain information from a detained terror suspect by giving him a hand full of sugar free cookies, as he is diabetic. The terror suspect saw it as an act of kindness and respect.

The former administration were deceived and deluded by so-called power that they let get to their heads. If a world leader goes into office with the attitude that whatever he or she does, no matter how cruel, unlawful and unconscionable it is, automatically makes it legal, they are going to fall and fall hard.

Levin: Memos don't show what Cheney says they do

Fri May 29, 2009 - WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, says former Vice President Dick Cheney's claims -- that classified CIA memos show enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding worked -- are wrong.

Levin, speaking at the Foreign Policy Association's annual dinner in New York on Wednesday, said an investigation by his committee into detainee abuse charges over the use of the techniques -- now deemed torture by the Obama administration -- "gives the lie to Mr. Cheney's claims."

The Michigan Democrat told the crowd that the two CIA documents that Cheney wants released "say nothing about numbers of lives saved, nor do the documents connect acquisition of valuable intelligence to the use of abusive techniques."

"I hope that the documents are declassified, so that people can judge for themselves what is fact, and what is fiction," he added...

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FBI Interrogator Says Cookies Convinced Al-Qaeda Suspect

Friday May 29, @01:40PM - from the catch-more-flies-with-sugar dept.

Ali Soufan, a former FBI interrogator, says that Osama Bin Laden's bodyguard, Abu Jandal, talked about the 9/11 attack only after he was given sugar free cookies. Jandal is diabetic and was unable to eat the regular cookies given to him with his tea. Noticing this, Soufan offered the suspect sugar-free cookies at their next meeting. Soufan says it was this act of kindness, not rougher methods, that opened up a dialogue between the two. "We had showed him respect, and we had done this nice thing for him. So he started talking to us instead of giving us lectures," Soufan said.

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