CIA's John Brennan: "It's not as bad as it sounds, really!

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[quote]Speaking at CIA headquarters, he said some officers acted beyond their authority but most did their duty.

A scathing Senate report two days earlier said "brutal" methods like waterboarding were ineffective.

But Mr Brennan asserted the CIA "did a lot of things right" at a time when there were "no easy answers".

"Our reviews indicate that the detention and interrogation programme produced useful intelligence that helped the United States thwart attack plans, capture terrorists and save lives," Brennan told a rare CIA news conference in Virginia.
But we have not concluded that it was the use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" (EITs) within that programme that allowed us to obtain useful information from detainees who were subjected to them, he added.[/quote]
[quote]He said this week was a tough time for people at the agency because of the release of the Senate report. But as he described their situation, he kept his head down and read carefully from the text in front of him. He wanted to make sure he got the words right.

Occasionally he looked up but when he did he gazed at the ceiling as if no-one was in the room. As a result the speech came across as anodyne and bloodless despite the emotionally charged words that were on the page. [/quote]
[quote]The UN and human rights groups have called for the prosecution of US officials involved in the 2001-2007 programme.

But the chances of prosecuting members of the Bush administration are unlikely - the US justice department has pursued two investigations into mistreatment of detainees and found insufficient evidence.

On Wednesday, an unnamed justice department official told the Los Angeles Times prosecutors had read the report and "did not find any new information" to reopen the investigation.[/quote]

[url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30437804]**SOURCE**[/url]
What are you still doing here you crazy motherfucker? Anyone else would of packed their bags and fled to the Bahamas by now.

[Richoxen]

Turns out Anal Rehydration is actually a candle-lit bath.

[Skwangtang]

my roommate said he supposedly said
"Let's be honest, CIA torture wasn't really torture, the last season of Dexter was."
It's such BS but it was pretty damn funny.

[SIRIUS]

Holy shit, this is starting to sound like parody

[Axsisel]

If it wasn't so bad why did they hide it and are trying to cover it now?

[bravehat]

"Hey! We only waterboarded them a little! don't worry about it man."

[Fulcrum]

It was just a prank!

[Ghost656]

[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;46696771]It was just a prank![/QUOTE]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cYvlevbU7o[/media]

[STRIDERS]

waterboarding is just like
uhh
surfing
yeah

[Saiko]

I think it's hilarious how they still won't call it torture. No no it's "enhanced interrogation". Just fucking call it for what it is.

[Cornish]

"Its really not that bad, in fact, you get used to it after you waterboard your third arabic suspect! Its fun for the whole family!"

[ZombieDawgs]

This feels like a very strange thing to do, feels like they're trying to draw attention away from something by dragging it out this much...

[Jamsponge]

[QUOTE=ZombieDawgs;46699442]This feels like a very strange thing to do, feels like they're trying to draw attention away from something by dragging it out this much...[/QUOTE]
At this point, we should just rename the Streisand Effect the US Government Effect.

[Zero-Point]

I just find it really sad that a lot of conservatives are claiming that it was the right thing to do, posting shit like [url=http://i.imgur.com/lb7I3ya.jpg]this[/url] all over facebook and what-not.
I can understand that you're angry that the guy in the pic I just linked to is in the state that he's in, but at the same time, torturing people the way we've been doing isn't going to give him his limbs back, it's been shown that torturing these people the way we have hasn't really prevented anything like that from happening again (that would be the two wars Bush got us into), and if you get some sense of justice out of torturing people the way we have, then you have to really step back and think about the fact that you get some sense of pleasure from the knowledge that we did what we've done to people.