It may be your lucky day, libtards! All you want are DoJ torture memos, uncut, NO REDAX, and now look at the breaking news: “In the fullest account to date of the questioning of al Qaeda suspects, government officials issued long sought documents that catalogue a list of tactics — from sleep and food deprivation to beatings — that Bush lawyers said comported with the law. The memos, which date to 2002, contain few redactions, despite a fierce battle within the Obama administration about the benefits of releasing the information.” TOUCHE, Obama… but rest assured that the very serious and important and serious news blogger Glenn Greenwald is furiously highlighting right now and will soon determine how much you care about so-called “legal statutes.” [WP]
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What does this have to do with teabagging Glenn Beck?
Lando knows what Vader did to Han Solo. Yes, he knows.
“They didn’t even ask any questions….”
In Cheney-ese that would be “Perfectly Legal (And if not, what the fuck business is it of yours? We make the rules) Enhanced Interrogation Memos”.
“…from sleep and food deprivation to beatings.” Watch Fox et al spin this as nothing more serious than a good old fraternity hazing ritual. Them Al Qaeda suspects are just pussies–who can’t withstand a little genital electroshock therapy? That’s how Hannity & Limbaugh get their kicks!
there’s nothing wrong with smacking your bitch up for a little information.
All this information being available. MY EYES. PULL DOWN THE VEIL AGAIN! NOOOOOOO!
Oh, Princess Greenwald’s just pissed cause he wasn’t in on yesterday’s teabagging.
Boy one of these days I’m going to have to get a pic of Christopher Hitchens being waterboarded.
Wait — “sleep and food deprivation” and “beatings” are torture? No, they’re not! They are but routine methods of child-rearing used in Fundamentalist Christian households all across this great nation of ours (though they are more prevalent in the Old Confederacy), and what a boon they have been to all! I can testify! I may be a little hysterical and overwrought, but I alone have been a boon to the American Pharmaceutical Bizness, both legal and il-, and I owe it all to a strict but loving regimen of parentally-applied deprivations and beatings! I need another drink! And a pill! Two pills! And what’s in that syringe, I’ll have some of that, too! And my gun! Where’s my gun? GODDAMMIT, WHERE’S MY GUN ARGGHH UNGHH
Suck it, Cheney
Holy Crap! Would cnn puleaze get that hugemongous smoking skull off the frontpage already?
What do you tell a suspected terrorist with two black eyes…nothing you haven’t told him twice before!
So…will the GOP declare legislative war now? Or, was the announcement that no CIA operatives would be prosecuted the deal for keeping them calm?
[re=292058]Texan Bulldoggette[/re]: Like Fox News would even cover it.
2nd thought, they didn’t do a Friday news dump on this…wonder what all the talking heads will be saying from tonight through the weekend?
Nice little Faulknerian soliloquy there,[re=292073]slappypaddy[/re]. +1
Dontcha love the South?
I like the skillful way Prez is handling this: We want to move forward, yet at the same time releasing the TRUTH. Way to go.
Now I really wonder what was in the redacted parts. Rock of Love marathon? Dinner at Glenn Beck’s house? K-Lo’s masseur for a day? The mind boggles.
And, it is not torture, because these brown-skinned people, you know they don’t feel pain the way normal folks do, so you have to let ‘em know you are serious, sort of like beatin’ a mule.
Believe it or not, I think the redacted parts will be the OLD, non-agressive, USEFUL and productive techniques we use during interrogations. They are truly “sources and methods” that are very legal and also very effective but could be countered by prior knowledge.
Also.
Truth? It’s something one administration tells about another.
Just read the first memo, and am somewhat relieved for Greenwald. He was getting pretty stressed there. As was Andrew Sullivan. G-d bless our bloggers!
Apparently Ashcroft drew the line at decapitation.
[re=292103]TGY[/re]: Hear, hear!
[re=292099]AfghanVet[/re]: Like the comfy church?
[re=292124]shanemacgowan[/re]: Well, Ashcroft was the super-religious freak so it’s good to know he drew a line somewhere.
The question is not, “Are Obama’s memos uncut?” The question is, “Is Obama?”
[re=292177]loquaciousmusic[/re]: He’s a Muslin, so no.
[re=292079]AfghanVet[/re]: …So…will the GOP declare legislative war now?…
yeah, after all the teabagging, do they have the balls to stand up for torture?
[re=292104]justshocking[/re]: Seriously, they were getting super stressed there. Oh boy, Obama has gotta release this stuff. If he doesn’t, all is lost, he’s the worst president in history, torture will continue in the USA, and justice will be shattered forever! And if he releases it and redacts a bunch of stuff, that will be even worse! You just know he’s not gonna do it, or if he does do it, he’s not gonna do it right! What’s it gonna be, Obama, yes or no? YES OR NO????
It must have been quite a let-down when he actually popped out all these minimally-redacted memos, just like we always knew he would.
Just so long as they don’t outlaw teabagging, cause then only outlaws, well, you know.
i hope holder gay married barry and ran away to mexico for good, because i’m pretty sure emperor cheney is not going to like this. hmm i think barry and holder might make the hottest gay couple ever…wait, torture? what?
“I think barry and holder might make the hottest gay couple ever . . . ”
Stop! Think. Hotter than Rahm and, well, anyone?
geo W bushes first mention in the national press was in the ny times defending the branding of potential members of his fraternity with red-hot wire hangers. it’s true.
uhh did anyone else want to cry after reading those memos… or am i late to the crying party.
“you would like to put zubayda in a confined cramped box with insects”
did we take a wrong turn at 1952 or something?
am i in the wrong universe?
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