The Senate Intelligence Committee recently produced an extremely flawed report that vilified the CIA for Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EIT) as torture. American voters must keep in mind ONLY the lame duck Dem majority placed its stamp of approval on this report. The Dems have spent the last 14 years LYING to America (Bush election 2000 – Obama years to the present in 2014). Lying is how Obama was elected in both 2008 and 2012. Obama’s deceptions he has told are scandalous and worse America’s Mainstream Media (NBC News, CBS News, NY Times, Media Matters etc.) have been perpetuating those lies (Townhall.com, WSJ, National Review, David Horowitz Freedom Center, Eagle Rising, etc.).
I have listening to Leftists touting this Senate Dem report on EIT as confirmation that prosecutions for crimes should occur. The thing is it’s like I’ve been telling my grandkids: “If a Democrats lips are moving, it is a lie.”
Justin Smith provides some facts that refute lying Democrats.
JRH 12/14/14
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No Tears For Terrorists
By Justin O. Smith
Sent: 12/13/2014 4:54 PM
The recently released Senate Intelligence report on the CIA detention and interrogation program, created after 9/11, is a poorly done partisan attack on the Agency, and it is marred by errors of fact and questionable motives, as Americans note that this story moved Dr. Gruber, ACA architect, and his "Americans are too stupid to understand Obamacare" remark from the front page of the New York Times to page twenty; however, since the Democrats have mischaracterized the effectiveness of the CIA's detention and interrogation program and alleged that Islamic terrorists/"enemy combatants" captured on foreign battlefields were "tortured" through waterboarding and Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EIT), let's put this topic to rest, as we also note that waterboarding was prohibited seven years ago.
Many progressive Democrats have conflated the issue by stating that Japanese soldiers were hung in 1947 for "waterboarding" U.S. soldiers, when what they actually did is more accurately described as "water-torture", forcing water into the stomachs of prisoners, our U.S. soldiers, until osmosis ruptured their blood-cells, ending in death. This is not in any manner similar to the minor dunkings that Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists received at the hands of CIA interrogators, which merely gave the subject the illusion of drowning.
At the cost of $40 million, the Senate intelligence report, a 524 page declassified executive summary of the 6300 page classified report, accuses the CIA of torture, however, the CIA repeatedly consulted the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel about methods it intended to use. Legal opinions - later discredited and withdrawn due to political pressure from the Obama administration - assured the Agency that ALL of its Enhanced Interrogation Techniques (EIT) were lawful and did not constitute torture.
It is worth noting here that tens of thousands of U.S. Armed Forces members, Rangers, Special Forces, SEALs, Pathfinders and Recon have voluntarily subjected themselves to waterboarding in the Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) classes. All intelligence and military personnel exposed to a high risk of capture take SERE training.
Now, the very same Democrats, who once fully supported the EIT program, clearly didn't include any information that did not fit their predetermined conclusions, and these same Democrats charged the CIA with immoral ineffectiveness, after they cherry-picked their way through six million pages of documents in the program that they in fact enabled; in their questionable endeavor, they ignored credible evidence that information gathered in this program led to Osama bin Laden.
In a joint response, former CIA Directors George Tenet, Porter Goss and Michael Hayden and former CIA Deputy Directors John McLaughlin, Albert Calland and Stephen Kappes rebut the Senate Intelligence report in a December 10th Wall Street Journal editorial that states:
"The (EIT) program in its totality formed an essential part of the foundation from which the CIA and the U.S. military mounted the bin Laden operation. For instance, the CIA never would have focused on the individual who turned out to be bin Laden's personal courier without the detention and interrogation program."
Senator Saxby Chambliss, the ranking Republican on the Intelligence Committee, and five other Republicans wrote a 100 page dissent of the report, which was written solely by Democratic committee staff members. Chambliss, in a later statement, contradicted the principal findings of the Democrats, calling them "erroneous and inflammatory."
Senator Chambliss also presented 766 known cases that represented "sole sourced" intelligence extracted through EIT, which gave advanced warning of terrorist attacks on Heathrow airport and London's Canary Wharf. Chambliss stated, "There is no telling how many lives this program saved."
Jose Rodriguez Jr., a former CIA official, rejects the Senate Intelligence report's conclusions that EITs weren't useful in saving American lives, and he stated: "... that the interrogation program brought no intelligence is an egregious falsehood; it's a dishonest attempt to rewrite history ... I'm bemused that the Senate could devote so many resources to studying the interrogation program and yet never once speak to any of the key people involved in it, including the guy who ran it, that would be me."
One report from the twelve month period in 2004 showed a 92% success rate when EITs were used at GITMO, and even the Senate Intelligence report had to admit that some intelligence was gathered from 82% of detainees subjected to EITs, while in CIA custody. The effectiveness was shown to be only 57.5% with detainees when soft-sell techniques (polygraphs) were used.
As a career U.S. military senior interrogator with extensive knowledge of the EITs used by the CIA interrogators on high value detainees, Jason Beale (pseudonym) anticipated the Senate Intelligence report and wrote a 39 page response stating that "under duress the unrehearsed details (of a lie) are the wild-cards that bite you in the ass ... I would rather sit across from the most talented interrogator on earth doing a soft-sell than any interrogator doing a hard-sell ... the only consequences to my lies come in the form of words. I could handle words. Anyone could." [Bold Italics Blog Editor’s]
Since the creation of the detention and interrogation program, the CIA has reported any allegation of abuse to the Justice Dept. Twenty cases have been forwarded to Justice in all these years, with only one meriting prosecution.
If detainees were subjected to "rough takedowns", stripped, bound, screamed at and slapped, as alleged in this Senate Intelligence report, and hasty decisions made in the chaotic aftermath of 9/11, those CIA agents involved should have been interviewed by the Senate Intelligence Committee to ascertain the reasoning and logic behind their actions. This should have been placed in proper context. [Bold text Editor’s – NO CIA agents involved in IET were interviewed by the Senate Intelligence Committee pertaining to this report.]
On December 11th, CIA Director John Brennan put this topic in its proper context as he stated:
"The events of 9/11 will be forever seared into the memory of Americans ... those 77 minutes in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Our Nation ached ... It prayed. In Our pain, We pledged to come together ... We vowed, NEVER AGAIN."
Americans are now being forced by this report to reflect and ask themselves, "Was America wrong to use these Enhanced Interrogation Techniques?"
Would anyone really and truly be troubled over waterboarding an enemy combatant, a terror suspect, with the knowledge that thousands of American lives might be at stake?
The Taliban, Al Qaeda and the Islamofascist groups that now comprise the Islamic State have routinely tortured, maimed and murdered their prisoners over the last several decades, just as America witnessed nineteen U.S. soldiers dismembered in Somalia and hung from utility poles in 1993 and, more recently, four young Christian children beheaded in Iraq for refusing to convert to Islam. And during this time, they have consistently and routinely worked towards successfully striking America in the most destructive and lethal fashion; the bomb plots, the biological and chemical attack plans and their search for nuclear weapons have all increased, and all of this was in the making long before the EIT program, as illustrated by the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
Americans reflect on what has brought us to this discussion, and we remember - We remember Islamic terrorists followed the Koran's mandate to murder non-believers, the infidels, in order to purify the world - taking the lives of 3000 innocent Americans. This is their life's calling, and America reacted by making it our mission to capture or kill every Islamofascist meaning to bring Her harm, a mission we took seriously; if an Islamic terror suspect or known terrorist gets slapped a few times or has a little water poured over his face, I'll not be shedding any tears.
By Justin O. Smith
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Edited By John R. Houk
© Justin O. Smith
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