Ex-CIA Operative John Kiriakou Retracts Waterboarding Claim: 'I Wasn't There... Relied On What I Heard'

Foreign Policy:

Well, it's official now: John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn't know what he was talking about.

Read the whole story: Foreign Policy

Comments

[keepemhonest]

12:27 AM on 01/28/2010

TO: Perfect NONSense

YOU WROTE: Simple and direct question: How many fellow citizens will you allow to_die_so you can feel morally superior and not splash water on someone's face? ....1,10,100,1000, more?

ME TO YOU
What I do, as a NON-Constitutional office holder is MY PROBLEM ... IF I violate laws then I expect to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. If I felt the need to T O R T U R E - as a non-Constitutional office holder then I should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the laws

HOWEVER and CONVERSELY (which means opposite):

I EXPECT MY GOVERNMENT AND ALL CONSTITUTIONAL OFFICE HOLDERS TO FOLLOW THE UFCKING LAWS YOU DBAG

IF YOU & TEABAGGERS DO NOT WANT OUR GOVT TO FOLLOW THE LAWS THEN YOU TEABAGGERS SHOULD PROTEST DC & FORCE THEM TO DISSOLVE THOSE LAWS!!! GET IT???

It is called FOLLOWING THE UFCKING LAW YOU DBAG!

[PhilipTaylor]

09:31 PM on 01/27/2010

Link to GW BUSH eating lunch with Bin Ladens the day before 9ll! - Originally published in Washington Times

Were they discussing and enjoying the K1LLING of Americans and DAMAGE to HER PSYCHE!

Is that why Bush kept reading with children 7 minutes after he was told about the T0WERS? That is my guess - HE KNEW well in advance!

http://www.wanttoknow.info/030316post

[PhilipTaylor]

09:32 PM on 01/27/2010

BIGGEST CONSPIRACY THEORY EVER IS 16 RANDOM GUYS WITH B0X CUT_TERS!

It is our FAULT for buying their LINE OF NE0C0N BS TACTICS + C1A Maneuvers!”

How could 16 random guys get access to rig the buildings with all those lower floor blasts? That takes time and experience like the C1A has access to! Fireman had to run for their lives when blasts happened far later!

RATE DIFFICULTY FOR CAVE DWELLERS = 100 on a 10 point system! Impossible!

NOW THAT IS A C0NSP1RACY THE0RY!
_________________

Bush: “Time for Politics ------ahhhh ------- Time for Politics ------ ahhhh — Time for Politics”: Jump to 7:28 minute mark on video (but whole film is powerful):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-751298171535560228#

[PhilipTaylor]

09:33 PM on 01/27/2010

Washington Times is a Republican Paper!

[research]

04:10 PM on 01/27/2010

Bush And Cheney are STILL war criminals.

[ebanks84]

03:57 PM on 01/27/2010

I got my posting out of order but the unnumbered one is 2 of 3 and should be read in that order.

http://www.stewwebb.com/THE%20PULPIT%20GOONS%20WHO%20ELECTED%20THE%20ANTI%20CHRIST.HTML

I posted this just to make you aware of what your government has been doing to you while you have been asleep.

WAKE UP so we can begin to FIGHT!

[research]

04:22 PM on 01/27/2010

Let's throw the money changers out of the temple and out of the Democracy!

Insist all candidate sign a binding legal contract to

Outlaw all political contributions as the obvious Bribery they are.

Mandate free prime time and a travel account for all candidate with the signatures on the ballot.

Till then, the USA is a Monarch of the rich: A Plutocracy.

[ebanks84]

04:41 PM on 01/27/2010

I'm with you 100%. If only someone with experience can start a website petition with these demands from the people and each and every one of us should sign it and make our goal as many Americans as humanly possible, then and only then maybe we can make a concerned difference in Washington.

I will back whoever makes that effort and that's my promise to all. We have to start somewhere and concentrate on fighting the powers to be instead of "each other". Can we do it?

[ebanks84]

03:55 PM on 01/27/2010

That as such, the USA is no longer a constitutional republic, but is a bought-and-sold entity, which is in the control of special interest groups and foreign governments;

That citizens of the United States of America are being denied their freedoms, as outlined in the constitution, and that those, who speak the truth, are being constantly tortured by microwaves, shocked through the telephones, harassed and slandered by paid government employees, thrown in prison and mur.dered for exercising their rights to freedom of speech;

That the exorbitant taxes, which most individuals in the working class must pay, now exceed 60%;

That the United States of America has been bankrupted by the Federal Reserve and the foreign bankers until every man, woman and child now owes well over $100,000 for their share of the national debt;

That treasonous Satanists have overthrown this government for a New World Order, which is a One World Government under Satanic rule, and that this New World Order determines to make slaves out of all of humanity;

[ebanks84]

03:53 PM on 01/27/2010

1 0f 3

THE GOD AND CONSTITUTION PARTY

"It is time for an American Revolution …not through guns and violence, but through the power of GOD ALMIGHTY!"

We, the people of the United States of America do hereby affirm the following:

That the United States of America was founded as "One Nation Under God", thereby guaranteeing to all individuals certain God-given rights, as the rights to freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and other rights as specifically outlined in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights;

That these rights have become eroded by special interest groups and crooked and corrupt politicians, who take an oath to support the constitution, but who have committed continuous and treasonous acts against the American people by lying, stealing, ki.lling and destroying the very foundation of this republic;

[ebanks84]

03:53 PM on 01/27/2010

2 of 3

That as such, the USA is no longer a constitutional republic, but is a bought-and-sold entity, which is in the control of special interest groups and foreign governments;

That citizens of the United States of America are being denied their freedoms, as outlined in the constitution, and that those, who speak the truth, are being constantly tortured by microwaves, shocked through the telephones, harassed and slandered by paid government employees, thrown in prison and murdered for exercising their rights to freedom of speech;

That the exorbitant taxes, which most individuals in the working class must pay, now exceed 60%;

That the United States of America has been bankrupted by the Federal Reserve and the foreign bankers until every man, woman and child now owes well over $100,000 for their share of the national debt;

That treasonous Satanists have overthrown this government for a New World Order, which is a One World Government under Satanic rule, and that this New World Order determines to make slaves out of all of humanity;

[ebanks84]

03:52 PM on 01/27/2010

2 0f 2

That the right to vote has been denied the people through rigged electronic voting machines, "lost" votes and other kinds of chicanery, and that we now have a president and many others in positions of authority, who were never elected by the people;

That the whole judicial process in the United States of America is absolutely corrupt, that there are many appointed judges, who belong to secret Satanic societies, whose intent is to overthrow this republic; and that countless millions have been denied their right to due process;

That our children and grandchildren no longer have any future, for they are saddled with great debt and have been subjected to such gross immorality through the Satanic media and through the absence of God and morality in the schools;

That the destruction of the morality in this country is a well-orchestrated endeavor, which has been carried out by these Satanists at the highest levels of this government, who have only one goal and this goal is the destruction of One Nation Under God and the enslavement of the entire human race;

That the whole 911 incident was a carefully crafted lie, deliberately staged to put fear into the hearts of the American people so that they would willingly give up their freedoms; and that this is clearly seen in the passage of the Patriot Act and the implementation of martial law in areas of transit.

[shivasquest]

02:20 PM on 01/27/2010

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters, "The American public needs to understand we're talking about rape and murder here. we're not just talking about giving people a humiliating experience." He did not elaborate.

Why do you think they destroyed the tapes?

[ebanks84]

02:28 PM on 01/27/2010

Because the truth always needs to be hidden from the people. Don't you realize that the powers that be are so afraid of the people that the only way they can stop a national revolt is to keep us at odds with one another. That's why we need to COMBINE OUR FORCES and fight them as ONE!

[shivasquest]

02:40 PM on 01/27/2010

I agree but Id have a hard time holding hands with the KKK and torture apologists.

[trucker guy]

02:16 PM on 01/27/2010

this man is being paid off by the left

[SocialistDistortion]

02:32 PM on 01/27/2010

Ahhh good old baseless accusations...the last refuge of someone who has no valid argument.

[ebanks84]

02:45 PM on 01/27/2010

Ain't that the truth!

[marco01]

04:59 PM on 01/27/2010

LOL

[Johnagain]

02:57 PM on 01/27/2010

Oh 'the left' is at it again. Paying off Bush administration operatives to rescind their previous statements. Hilarious.

This one minion's reversal will have absolutely no effect whatsoever, because the FOX News/Rush Limbo crowd has already been given the Republican wingn.ut version of this story (torture works, and is good, as long as it's not you being tortured), and they will believe that version until the day they die. So there is absolutely no rational reason for paying someone like this to do a 180.

We've seen this over and over. The pro-war, pro-oil, neocon machine comes out with a series of obscene lies, which are dutifully amplified by the corporate press to saturation levels, only to be completely debunked bit by bit over the ensuing months, always at low volume, on p.43, or on a blog that is only read by people who already know that the story is bogus from reading legitimate non-corporate news sources.

[ebanks84]

02:15 PM on 01/27/2010

I just heard on MSNBC the female host show a clip of Geitner getting upset when questioned by congress and the host's remarks were "ooh" and words to indicate how Geitner was getting upset. She played on the COMBAT between the two more so than the essence of what was being said, which might have been meaningful for us to know.

That's how we are being used by every aspect of the MEDIA to keep us at odds with each other. It's not the news per se, it's all about the differing party's reaction to that news that keeps us bickering, arguing, and being manipulated away from the story itself.

And it continues on a daily basis and that's why we are fighting ourselves instead of the problems that affect each and every one of us, no matter which party we are affiliated with.

[RightWingBeagle]

01:56 PM on 01/27/2010

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[ebanks84]

02:16 PM on 01/27/2010

Wouldn't your bed be more comfortable :)

[marco01]

04:57 PM on 01/27/2010

So this is how you guys do it, just ignore facts you don't like.

We knew it all along.

[Vere15]

01:54 PM on 01/27/2010

I believe that he just confessed without being waterboarded or tortured - who would have thunk

[nyckid]

01:49 PM on 01/27/2010

Listen carefully at the words. The spending freeze excludes defense, war and other expenditures. It is not a freeze at all. It is a spending increase in military and war, designed to expand the AlPAC 2ionist neocon Obama agenda.

[Pod-gers]

02:11 PM on 01/27/2010

Fanned, excellent observation.

[imfedup]

02:13 PM on 01/27/2010

What words? What article did you read? This one is about waterboarding . . .

[nyckid]

01:36 PM on 01/27/2010

What a bad image we are giving the worId. America tort*ures and 0bama protects the tort*urers.

[ebanks84]

01:50 PM on 01/27/2010

The worse image we are giving the world is our own bashing of each other. The one thing I envy about the Haitians is the fact that they show more love for one another than Americans do and that hurts. If we could come together and stop fighting among ourselves, imagine how great we could be.

[SocialistDistortion]

02:11 PM on 01/27/2010

That's because Haiti is a third world country, and therefore all the Haitians have is each other. Contrast that to the USA, the land of plenty, where dog forbid we share with each other once in a while.

[charon]

07:49 PM on 01/27/2010

How ridiculous. America has always been respected for its open debates about politics and its commitment to justice and humanity. To what extent we step away from those by banning dissent or violating basic rules of justice and humanity, as the government does when it approves of torture or gives torturers sanctuary, we lose the respect of all those except the worst tyrants!