[ShaolinSubzz]

Condoleezza Rice Must GO

Nothing we dont already know but there are still some Condi lizard huggers in these here woods...

Sources: Top Bush Advisors Approved 'Enhanced Interrogation'
Detailed Discussions Were Held About Techniques to Use on al Qaeda Suspects
By JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG, HOWARD L. ROSENBERG and ARIANE de VOGUE
April 9, 2008

In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News.

The so-called Principals who participated in the meetings also approved the use of "combined" interrogation techniques -- using different techniques during interrogations, instead of using one method at a time -- on terrorist suspects who proved difficult to break, sources said.

Highly placed sources said a handful of top advisers signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top al Qaeda suspects -- whether they would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning, called waterboarding.

The high-level discussions about these "enhanced interrogation techniques" were so detailed, these sources said, some of the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed -- down to the number of times CIA agents could use a specific tactic.

The advisers were members of the National Security Council's Principals Committee, a select group of senior officials who met frequently to advise President Bush on issues of national security policy.

At the time, the Principals Committee included Vice President Cheney, former National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General John Ashcroft.

As the national security adviser, Rice chaired the meetings, which took place in the White House Situation Room and were typically attended by most of the principals or their deputies.

Contacted by ABC News today, spokesmen for Tenet, Rumsfeld and Powell declined to comment about the interrogation program or their private discussions in Principals Meetings. Powell said through an assistant there were "hundreds of [Principals] meetings" on a wide variety of topics and that he was "not at liberty to discuss private meetings."

The White House also declined comment on behalf of Rice and Cheney. Ashcroft could not be reached for comment today.

Critics at home and abroad have harshly criticized the interrogation program, which pushed the limits of international law and, they say, condoned torture. Bush and his top aides have consistently defended the program. They say it is legal and did not constitute torture.

"I can say that questioning the detainees in this program has given us the information that has saved innocent lives by helping us stop new attacks here in the United States and across the world," Bush said in a speech in September 2006.

In interview with ABC's Charles Gibson last year, Tenet said: "It was authorized. It was legal, according to the Attorney General of the United States."

But this is the first time sources have disclosed that a handful of the most senior advisers in the White House explicitly approved the details of the program. According to multiple sources, it was members of the Principals Committee that not only discussed specific plans and specific interrogation methods, but approved them.

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ABC News: Sources: 'Principals' OK'd Harsh Tactics

[Breakfast Bar]

I really admire your attempts to convert these remaining Condi "nuthuggers" to your cause by ratonally presenting your evidence in a "Condi can suck a dick" thread. I'm sure the conversions will start soon.

[ShaolinSubzz]

Originally Posted by Breakfast Bar

I really admire your attempts to convert these remaining Condi "nuthuggers" to your cause by ratonally presenting your evidence in a "Condi can suck a dick" thread. I'm sure the conversions will start soon.

Thanks. At first I almost took an aggresive approach but after some careful forthought I thought a calm and well presented argument would be more mature

[Flexwave2003]

Its a little too late to be calling for Condi to go, or anyone else in the administration for that matter.

There should have been impeachments handed down along time ago. The entire administration is either under suspicion of illegal activity, already under investigation for illegal activity or convicted of illegal activity.


If it looks like a skunk, smells like a skunk and acts like a skunk................you know where this is going.

[TheSweetScience]

Highly placed sources said a handful of top advisers signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top al Qaeda suspects -- whether they would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning, called waterboarding.

no! anything but slapping and pushing!


:lame:

[gracie-hunter]

Originally Posted by Breakfast Bar

I really admire your attempts to convert these remaining Condi "nuthuggers" to your cause by ratonally presenting your evidence in a "Condi can suck a dick" thread. I'm sure the conversions will start soon.

we need you to be at 1700 hours at the White House Situation Room for a top secret meeting

[Salbass]

As I've said before, if these officials would undergo the same tactics and post the video, they'd have a much better case to make.

Wouldn't you love to see the Condi waterboarding video?

[ShaolinSubzz]

Originally Posted by Salbass

As I've said before, if these officials would undergo the same tactics and post the video, they'd have a much better case to make.

Wouldn't you love to see the Condi waterboarding video?

That would possibly be the only time I might get caught beating off to a Condi vid