CIA gives waterboarders $5M of our tax money as legal shield.
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[quote]Officials: CIA gave waterboarders $5M legal shield
(AP) – 20 hours ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — When the CIA decided to waterboard suspected terror detainees in overseas prisons, the agency turned to a pair of contractors. The men designed the CIA's interrogation program and also personally took part in the waterboarding sessions.
But to do the job, [b]the CIA had to promise to cover at least $5 million in legal fees for them in case there was trouble down the road, former U.S. officials said.[/b]
Turns out the contractors needed that secret agreement as taxpayers pay to defend the men in a federal investigation over an interrogation tactic the United States now says is torture. The deal is even more generous than the protections the agency typically provides its own officers, giving the two men access to more money to finance their defenses.[/quote]
awesome, not only was i paying my government to torture people, i was also paying them to defend themselves when they get sued.
Your tax dollars, at work.
i fucking hate my country
whoops forgot source
We wouldn't be in any better of a situation if the CIA got sued and it's leading officials got fired. It would leave the CIA gutted and leaderless for quite a period of time, and leaving us utterly defenseless from intelligence and espionage standpoints.
[QUOTE=tyanet;26768760]We wouldn't be in any better of a situation if the CIA got sued and it's leading officials got fired. It would leave the CIA gutted and leaderless for quite a period of time, and leaving us utterly defenseless from intelligence and espionage standpoints.[/QUOTE]
So call me crazy but wouldn't NOT HAVING WATERBOARDERS solve both of these problems?
And people whine about their taxes going to welfare.
[QUOTE=venn177;26768830]So call me crazy but wouldn't NOT HAVING WATERBOARDERS solve both of these problems?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but what's done is done.
You guys are being cynical, but no, really, they're building a gigantic dome made out of money where the waterboarders will hide from angry mobs
I'm just waiting for someone to post that waterboarding isn't torture. I've got the links ready.
[QUOTE=doggyalt;26768958]I'm just waiting for someone to post that waterboarding isn't torture. I've got the links ready.[/QUOTE]
aka conservatives
