Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2010-11-05 Thread Keith In Tampa
The point of the enhanced interrogation techniques, at all levels, was to extract accurate information. Waterboarding is based on a deeply rooted physiological response which makes an individual believe that he is drowning, even if he knows that no harm will come to him. See Bradbury's 5/10/05

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2010-11-05 Thread MJ
So you post something supposedly claiming there was no torture except it cites examples of such -- of course it attempts to diminish them. Regard$, --MJ Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2010-11-05 Thread Keith In Tampa
Michael, There was nothing condoned by our government, (and the few instances where there was impropriety, the individuals were prosecuted) that, Shocked The Human Conscience. If you cannot understand that, then this leaves two options. (A) You have not read Yoo's, Bradbury's and Rumsfeld's

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2010-11-05 Thread Keith In Tampa
Hey Michael, If you are reading this from e-mail, and don't have the thread saved, I suggest that you go back to the start of this thread in the Group, and read from the beginning. There is some very good articles and a lot of information in this thread. Here's the link:

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-24 Thread VT VirtualTruth
Keith the idea is NOT to kill them while questioning them, to turtore someone to death without getting the Intel would be stupid, your reasoning that this is not torture because he didn't die is sheer stupidity! On Apr 22, 10:06 am, Keith In Tampa keithinta...@gmail.com wrote: Same

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-24 Thread VT VirtualTruth
So why did we put Japanese to death who water tortured our troops if it is not torture? On Apr 22, 10:27 am, Keith In Tampa keithinta...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Mark wrote: No, it is EXACTLY the same when arrested the accused nterrorists are simply people with

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-24 Thread VT VirtualTruth
28 people? Bush said NO ONE was tortured, today it is 28, what will it be later? How did those 98 people die during questioning? If we were not torturing them, how did they die? There was a doctor present, so what happened? Answer that one please. On Apr 22, 10:27 am, Keith In Tampa

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-24 Thread jgg1000a
Never before has the US resorted to these tactics Clearly you do not know the history of the Vietnam War, or the Civil War, the the Philippino Resistance in 1901, or thw War of 1812, or the French Indian War...War almost always involves cases or some very brutal behavior... Still the US

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-24 Thread jgg1000a
A version of the old Liberal line - you are just too dumb to debate with me... MeaNWILE BACK IN REALITY. The UN is showing how broken it is and by referrence the International law you profess to love... Seem even the UN is embarass about Durban -- where totalitarian racists call other racist

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-24 Thread Mark
The premise for your article is Some nations are more equal than others, some have an inherent right to be more sovereign than others. That same attitude pervaded the US when dealing (from day one as colonies) with your red, black, brown and yellow populations. Surely you, as an enlightened

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-24 Thread jgg1000a
No, the premise was it should be about HUMAN RIGHTS not STATE RIGHTSIt pointed out the one falacy of your mindse is it demands equating results with rights... That same attitude pervaded the US when dealing (from day one as colonies) with your red, black, brown and yellow populations.

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-23 Thread jgg1000a
To say that the rest of the world has not been dealing withh stateless terrorist groups on a successful basis for a long time before the US involvement is just STUPID. But within the Geneva Accords??? As to your claimed particulars 1) Afghanistan -- You exclude 9/11 in its deeds, AQ

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-23 Thread Mark
It DID take such groups into account. It also took US treatment of such groups into account as the US in the 20th century had at one time a habit of decapitating the dead stuffing the mouths with meat and burying the parts separately. Nice history you have there. It has all been done before

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-23 Thread jgg1000a
Please Mark stop misrepresenting my words when my words are clear... I do not understand how or from where you get this idea that stateless terror is anything new or that was not considered when the Covenants were written. 1) I did not claim stateless terrorism was new... YOU said I

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-23 Thread jgg1000a
Mark note the debate here is how we treated AQ leaders, not what the US did in Vietnam or the Philippines in 1901... You seek to demand a higher standard than what the US did EVEN THOUGH IT USED A FAR HIGHER STANDARD THAN IN PRIOR URBAN WARFARE Moral perfection in war does not exist... It

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-23 Thread jgg1000a
Your very basic claim that terror tactics (torture) must all of a sudden be used because of US involvement Wrong... I assume the US acts the same way when it is seeking to combat groups that terrorize... That is using non lethal methods to extract timely and critical information from

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-23 Thread jgg1000a
That is why Eisenhower was such a good President, he appreciated the cost in men for war... And only to be used if no other options are available... On Apr 23, 5:04 pm, rigsy03 rigs...@yahoo.com wrote: Wars break all the rules. Generals/Admirals knew how many men they would sacrifice in WWI

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-23 Thread rigsy03
I agree,jgg. On Apr 23, 4:36�pm, jgg1000a jgg1...@hotmail.com wrote: That is why Eisenhower was such a good President, he appreciated the cost in men for war... �And only to be used if no other options are available... On Apr 23, 5:04�pm, rigsy03 rigs...@yahoo.com wrote: Wars break all

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-23 Thread VT VirtualTruth
I was ASKED by Keith to give my opinion of the discussion and did so you arrogant fool. Believe it on not, this is NOT your board, you did NOT start this discussion, and you do NOT have a monopoly on who and what can be discussed. The fact that you seem oblivious to these simple obvious facts,

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-22 Thread Keith In Tampa
Same ChurchDifferent Pew category. Kahlid Shaykh Muhammad was purportedly subjected to waterboarding 183 times in March, 2003, and Abu Zubaydah was purportedly subjected to waterboarding 83 times in August, 2002, while being monitored by both a medical doctor and a psychologist. . *See*

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-22 Thread jgg1000a
As I suggested, in your POV thousands killed IS AN ACCEPTABLE price for no torture... That is not the POV of most... You argue for a consistent AND inhumane RULE OF LAW...At one time Slavery was supported by RULE OF LAW Would you have then supported Southern Slavery in 1860??? On Apr

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-22 Thread jgg1000a
We can all agree that torture used in evey day life in not to be done We can all agree the all too often individuals and governments abuse torture.. And we all should be able to agree that some very bad individual abuse the legal process to get away with murder... The question here is

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-22 Thread jgg1000a
That is NOT what I said. I said it is wrong to torture the info from him. Which is to say you are willing to allow thousand to die if need be And that is YOUR slippery slope... When does the rights of the group overweight the non lethal abuse of an individual???To say never is to

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-22 Thread Keith In Tampa
Jgg, As much as I advocate that most all issues are Black And White...There is no grey area; I tend to agree with you here. The edges do seem to get a bit fuzzy. I was opposed to the release of these documents, and agreed with those who were claiming that such a release constituted potential

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-22 Thread Mark
So let me get this straight.. If an individual is thought to have info that would save thousands of lives and won't give it up it is fine to use enhanced interrogation techniques.. The more urgent the need for this information, the more advanced the method needs to be and the more resistant

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-22 Thread jgg1000a
f an individual is thought to have info that would save thousands of lives and won't give it up it is fine to use enhanced interrogation techniques.. That is the logic... Now often this logic is wrongly applied However in this case, the claim is that critical was gleaned by using the

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-22 Thread Mark
I have NEVER claimed that no information useful or not was ever gained it is beyond the point. My slope is NOT slippery. It is common sense when considering that which others find just, moral, and correct under THEIR also perfectly legal systems. Your claim the organizations like AQ have

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-22 Thread Mark
And here is some light reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_designated_terrorist_organizations http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/2008/RAND_CT314.pdf http://www.funtrivia.com/flashquiz/index.cfm?qid=295271 On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:34 PM, jgg1000a jgg1...@hotmail.com wrote:

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread THE ANNOINTED ONE
My Dearest Misguided Sean, Since I was addressing everything from this point (From: VT VirtualTruth thevirtualtr...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:05:55 -0700 (PDT) Local: Mon, Apr 20 2009 10:05 am) on I find your response ill advised and lacking in base thought. As to being arrogant, I

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread THE ANNOINTED ONE
Of the US unsigned protocol 1 Section I.-Methods and means of warfare Article 35.-Basic rules paragraph 3. states It is prohibited to employ methods or means of warfare which are intended, or may be expected, to cause widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment. In the

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread THE ANNOINTED ONE
This of course leads to the question Whose signature matters??? That of the invader/occupier (US who did NOT sign the protocol) or that of the particular Invadee or the home country of the particular combatant ?? Since Sovereignity is an issue everywhere except the High Seas, the Arctic

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2009-04-21 Thread rigsy03
So what did the Founders call the mass extinction of American Indian tribes? Slavery, white immigrant contracts of seven years, child labor, unfair laws of labor and conscription?// It seems we need new testing to root out the brutes but that has little to do with the kind of war we are fighting.

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread rigsy03
First, explain the difference between savages and terrorist combatants and who that applies to during various empires and colonizing nations versus the latter. And remember we are no longer at war with with a modern equal- we are warring against the 7th or 12th Century in reasoning. On Apr 21,

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread rigsy03
And you also fail to address the other war going on at present- the vast redistribution of wealth and capital, which is just as deadly. It probably calls for a new vocabulary of suckers and thieves- happily, English is elastic. On Apr 21, 12:47�pm, rigsy03 rigs...@yahoo.com wrote: So what did

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread jgg1000a
One question NOT debated is If these methods did save hundreds of lives, is it justified??? If one takes the position of no, then you place yourself into the position of saying not torturing 1 man is more important than hundreds of lives To date the Left ignores this question with the

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread rigsy03
The Left does not understand mental torture/extraction of information. Mossad does, evidently.//I don't think the ME terrorists have arrived at the mental category of interrogations which the Left assumes. The Left is a victim oriented mentality to begin with- pass the Band-Aids. As unemployment

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread Mark
So the various police forces in the US should return to the day of the rubber hoses ?? And when your son/daughter/family member does not rat out its ok to save the many by using it ?? On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:16 PM, rigsy03 rigs...@yahoo.com wrote: The Left does not understand mental

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread Mark
There are courts of law, NOT courts of justice. jgg, the presumption of innocence is absolute in jurisprudence It is better than 5, 10, 20, or 100 guilty men go free than for one innocent man to be put to death. This prinicple is embodied in the presumption of innocence. In 1895, the U.S.

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread rigsy03
You must have no idea what metropolitan police are dealing with in our society. Pity. On Apr 21, 2:19�pm, Mark markmka...@gmail.com wrote: So the various police forces in the US should return to the day of the rubber hoses ?? And when your son/daughter/family member does not rat out its ok to

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread Mark
so its fine if they think they have reason to whack on your kid then. On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:28 PM, rigsy03 rigs...@yahoo.com wrote: You must have no idea what metropolitan police are dealing with in our society. Pity. On Apr 21, 2:19�pm, Mark markmka...@gmail.com wrote: So the various

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread rigsy03
I was saying something else about interrogations. The mental is more powerful than the physical. On Apr 21, 2:19�pm, Mark markmka...@gmail.com wrote: So the various police forces in the US should return to the day of the rubber hoses ?? And when your son/daughter/family member does not rat out

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread rigsy03
I raised law abiding children and suggest others do the same although some stories spring to mind from youth's merry pranks. I think there is more misery with lawyers than cops! :-) On Apr 21, 2:32�pm, Mark markmka...@gmail.com wrote: so its fine if they think they have reason to whack on your

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread Mark
But that is not the question addressed in this thread is it ?? There are already limits set that are being crossed by the duly appointed . that limit is NONE. How do you mentally torture someone without physically controlling them ?? On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:32 PM, rigsy03 rigs...@yahoo.com

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread Mark
and the question remains that if your childs very best friend severely screwed up is it ok to abuse your kid to get info on the friend ?? On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:43 PM, rigsy03 rigs...@yahoo.com wrote: I raised law abiding children and suggest others do the same although some stories

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread rigsy03
You are the one talking about physical abuse which is no longer necessary in this techie age. There are so many tracers now- electronic, DNA.//This issue actually came up several times raising my children as a single mother- it is handled differently on a neighborhood basis. You need several

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread Mark
Nice dodge answer the question or decline to do so but quit dancing and keep this in the scope of the thread. On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:55 PM, rigsy03 rigs...@yahoo.com wrote: You are the one talking about physical abuse which is no longer necessary in this techie age. There are so many

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread jgg1000a
It is better than 5, 10, 20, or 100 guilty men go free than for one innocent man to be put to death. Your short answer is it is better the thousands die rather than 1 man's rights not be violated.That I suspect is not the answer of most folks -- by a wide margin... And that Mark is

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread jgg1000a
NOw you are mixing apples and oranges... NO ONE is arguing for a universial application of torture... The argument here is about using non lethal means to extract critical life saving information from PROFESSIONAL terrorists --- a very limited and far greater specified application than what

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread jgg1000a
No Mark, this your ignore the clear limited framework of application of these methods... They were not professed to be designed for general every day police work... But you knew that, and you seek a strawman here so YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ANSWER a basic question Should these methods be used to

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread jgg1000a
Is it ok to get info on a friend IF they have or are planning to kill other people???Your POV is no... I suspect the relatives of those killed would disagree.. On Apr 21, 3:45 pm, Mark markmka...@gmail.com wrote: and the question remains that if your childs very best friend severely

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread jgg1000a
Perhaps you need to refine your question in a less biased fashion... On Apr 21, 4:34 pm, Mark markmka...@gmail.com wrote: Nice dodge answer the question or decline to do so but quit dancing and keep this in the scope of the thread. On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 1:55 PM, rigsy03

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread Mark
No, it is EXACTLY the same when arrested the accused nterrorists are simply people with no ID and no proof wrong place wrong time torture is used to sort them out. Torture is NOT acceptable on any level, I would not care whose child or family is at risk, including my own. The is and

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2009-04-21 Thread dick thompson
BULL!! If your kids were in danger you would do anything. If you wouldn't then you need to take a look at your role as a father. Mark wrote: No, it is EXACTLY the same when arrested the accused nterrorists are simply people with no ID and no proof wrong place wrong time

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread Mark
Numerius contented himself with denying his guilt, and there was not sufficient proof against him. His adversary, Delphidius, a passionate man, seeing that the failure of the accusation was inevitable, could not restrain himself, and exclaimed, Oh, illustrious Caesar! if it is sufficient to deny,

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread Mark
As would the relatives of the tortured... impasse On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:54 PM, jgg1000a jgg1...@hotmail.com wrote: Is it ok to get info on a friend IF they have or are planning to kill other people???Your POV is no... I suspect the relatives of those killed would disagree.. On

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread dick thompson
So you are saying that it is just fine and dandy for this guy to hold back info that would save a lot of lives including the lives of the family just because his relatives might not like it. Your values are amazing! Antedeluvial but amazing. Mark wrote: As would the relatives of the

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread rigsy03
And I respectfully urge you to think on your feet. I am not a lawyer- just a voice. Sometimes the frayed thread is a greater truth.// There is ambivalence about lawyers and laws, doctors and procedures, politicians and govenance, teachers and knowledge and so on and that's where I pitch my tent.

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread Mark
Thanks for the dance experience and common sense must teach evasion now.. On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:02 PM, rigsy03 rigs...@yahoo.com wrote: And I respectfully urge you to think on your feet. I am not a lawyer- just a voice. Sometimes the frayed thread is a greater truth.//

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-21 Thread rigsy03
You're welcome. On Apr 22, 12:05�am, Mark markmka...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the dance �experience and common sense must teach evasion now.. On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:02 PM, rigsy03 rigs...@yahoo.com wrote: And I respectfully urge you to think on your feet. I am not a

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2009-04-21 Thread rigsy03
BTW, evasion is usually written into laws or lawyers of conscience would never defend obvious criminals. On Apr 22, 12:05�am, Mark markmka...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the dance �experience and common sense must teach evasion now.. On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:02 PM, rigsy03

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread Mark
The outing .or releasing done lately was of a CIA operative in the Bush years. The released reports by Obama over torture was already public information... how EXACTLY did it benefit the enemy in any way new ?? On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 11:06 PM, rigsy03 rigs...@yahoo.com wrote: This is no

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread Keith In Tampa
The Bradbury Memoranda was not released until recently as I understand it. I had never seen it until last week. Yoo's Memorandum had been out for over a year. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Mark markmka...@gmail.com wrote: The outing .or releasing done lately was of a CIA operative in the

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread VT VirtualTruth
106 detainees died during 'questioning. If they were not being tortured and another person was present during questioning, perhaps even a doctor according to the Bush torture memos, why did they die? If they were in need of medical attention why didn't they get it before questioning? But you all

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread Keith In Tampa
Can you document these 106 detainees who were purportedly killed or died?? On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:05 PM, VT VirtualTruth thevirtualtr...@gmail.com wrote: 106 detainees died during 'questioning. If they were not being tortured and another person was present during questioning, perhaps

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread dick thompson
They should have just given them a bikini wax - that would have gotten the info and the International Red Cross and the NYT would not have had anything to complain about. VT VirtualTruth wrote: 106 detainees died during 'questioning. If they were not being tortured and another person was

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2009-04-20 Thread VT VirtualTruth
LMAO, did you even BOTHER to read the links at the bottom of the post? Keith try to make this interesting! I am starting to feel guilty about abusing you in front of so many people! On Apr 20, 12:08 pm, Keith In Tampa keithinta...@gmail.com wrote: Can you document these 106 detainees who were

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread VT VirtualTruth
You got nothing for a real rebuttal, when you torture a detainee to death someone wasn't doing their job correctly and you didn't get any Intel. I am a realists, I know that torture happens in real life, but it is done by professionals and the prisoners rarely die, and it is done to individuals

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread Keith In Tampa
Sean, I just reviewed the links that you sent, I apologize for not seeing them initially. You are aware, that the links you cite are discussing purported torture allegations that took place in 2002-2003 at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, as well as Abu Gharib Prison in Iraq? That those

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread VT VirtualTruth
US personnel torturing, plausible deniability means nothing and I posted articles written in 2004 that deaths from torture were already being reported and Bush was denying this, the Red Cross now verify that the WH was lying. To say it was examples of allegations, and then later claim that all

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2009-04-20 Thread THE ANNOINTED ONE
Actually Sean, Keith and I were NOT discussing actual torture or its use or non-use but the ramifications of unilaterally side stepping the Geneva Conventions (and other conventions) in order to institute a policy that either is or is not in keeping with the intentions, protections and

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2009-04-20 Thread Lobo
KEITH To begin with, it's not about the persons being tortured. It's about the people doing the torturing. Cruel dictators like Saddam, or religious-wacko terrorist groups like al Quaeda, torture prisoners because THEY are the BAD GUYS. We and other civilized nations do not legally employ

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2009-04-20 Thread dick thompson
But we did as agreed by Pelosi and company when it was shown to them in 2002. Now you want to change the rules after the fact and then charge these people with not abiding by the rules. Lobo wrote: KEITH To begin with, it's not about the persons being tortured. It's about the people

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2009-04-20 Thread Mark
Hey, the rules were in place when the incidents transpired. Now that it may apply to you you'd like to reverse the Neurmberg Hangings ?? just following orders was not allowed as a defense, Neither is my lawyer said* I could.* On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:25 PM, dick thompson

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2009-04-20 Thread dick thompson
Do you support renditions? That was legally OK not long ago but now we hear it is not. I seem to remember you being against that when it came up. Yet it has been done for over 15 years at least. Now if you try you will end up in court. But according to you it should not even be in question

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread dick thompson
Changing the rules and then charging the troops is OK though, I guess. Mark wrote: Again, bad advise and ignorance are NOT reasonable excuses. On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 4:57 PM, dick thompson rhomp2...@earthlink.net mailto:rhomp2...@earthlink.net wrote: Do you support renditions? That

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread Mark
All that is necessary is responsible leadership The rules have NOT been changed...link please. please do not link me to opinions legal or lay... The troops are taught the rules of the convention... especially those dealing with prisoners... the rules are in no way ambiguous in any of a

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread Lobo
There is a big difference between our government kidnapping a very limited number of people-- people against whom there were outstanding foreign arrest warrants -- in order to deliver them to 3rd countries in order to face criminal charges, as happened under Clinton, Bush I and Reagan, and

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread Mark
There is NO difference. Kidnapping is kidnapping There is no justification for the US to act on a warrant unless the suspect is on US soil. Imagine what an uproar would take place if other nations went into the US and started taking people they had issued warrants for... Rule of law

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread Keith In Tampa
Mark, I agree. The policy is misguided. I am still confused as to how we went in twenty years ago, and took a soverign foreign leader, Manuel Noreiga from his Nation, and then tried him in a Federal District Court. I have read the decision, I just disagree with it, and think that the policy is

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread Lobo
MARK I'm not trying to defend Clinton's actions (or Bush Senior's or Ronald Reagan's). I agree that those renditions were illegal in most cases. But there are degrees of illegality and of moral wrongness, and to say that there is no difference between delivering a kidnappee with a legal

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread Mark
Simple, Noriega was the multi-directional link in the Iran-Contra dealings... he knew where all the dope went, and where all the guns were from. They considered him a rogue CIA agent and nothing more. I know Eloy Alfaro very well, Normally stay a couple of blocks from there at 14 west and

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread Mark
I do not think that sending armed men from one government into the sovereign territory of another without formal permission is correct on ANY level That logic is what sent us to Panama and then Iraq. The US has now violated the very principals on which it was founded TWICE on the greatest

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread VT VirtualTruth
I was responding to Keith's post to ME about one of MY posts you arrogant fool. On Apr 20, 5:03 pm, THE ANNOINTED ONE markmka...@gmail.com wrote: Actually Sean, Keith and I were NOT discussing actual torture or its use or non-use but the ramifications of unilaterally side stepping the Geneva

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread Mark
The answer is Articla 5 dangerous or suspected dangerous prisoner *Article 5* Where, in the territory of a Party to the conflict, the latter is satisfied that an individual protected person is definitely suspected of or engaged in activities hostile to the security of the State, such

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread Keith In Tampa
Thanks Mark!! Unfortunately, it doesn't say the language that I had remembered from my school days!! It was also very much considered in Rumsfeld's Working Group Within The Department of Defense..Hard to get around some of the language here.As Bradbury and especially Yoo understood!!1

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread Mark
Thats OK, Max penalties for ANY kind of disruption while captive are also set at 30 days On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Keith In Tampa keithinta...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks Mark!! Unfortunately, it doesn't say the language that I had remembered from my school days!! It was also very

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-20 Thread dick thompson
The suspect was on US soil and trying to stay. Canada would not let him back because he was on their list. The US honored the Canada list. There was no kidnapping involved. It was a matter of what to do with the guy. They shipped him back to where he originally came from since Canada

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-19 Thread Daniel Seigler
the declassification of the CIA documents was an attempt by the Executive Branch of government to show transparency. Yet the Executive branch of government will NOT declassify and show proof that Mr. soetore is constitutionally QUALIFIED On Apr 19, 12:30 pm, Keith In Tampa

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-19 Thread Keith In Tampa
Hey Daniel, I don't doubt that your premise is correct, especially the current Administration's attempt to besmirch the previous Administration. But once you read the Memoranda, I honestly don't see how any thinking American can come to the conclusion that the Memoranda is harmful against

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-19 Thread rigsy03
I object. These releases have showed the terrorists how to prepare. Israel/Mossad has a very different tactic. You don't get valid information from torture. You get a release from physical pain and bs. First, learn the language and culture and work their puzzle. Then kill them. On Apr 19,

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-19 Thread rigsy03
What has saved Isreal? Brains! Even the photo of the former head of Mossad prompted every secret. O- those eyes penetrating into my soul- worse than a priest! On Apr 19, 2:57�pm, Keith In Tampa keithinta...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Daniel, I don't doubt that your premise is correct, especially

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-19 Thread Keith In Tampa
I totally agree Rigs. It was a mistake to have released these documents, for the very reason that you allude to. It weakens our intelligence gathering, as well as prepares these homicidal murdering Muslims for what our tactics and techniques are. Now that the documents have been released, (and

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-19 Thread dick thompson
One of the reasons I despise the NYT. They have made a practice of releasing info like this which plays right into the hands of our enemies. Note the cell phone fiasco where they let Al Qaeda know that we were tracking their cell phones. Same with the SWIFT money transfers. I was

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-19 Thread Keith In Tampa
Well, in this instance, the NYT released this information (as well as the ACLU) with the Obama Administration's blessing. Nevertheless, (and I agree that it was a mistake to have released this info) I do surmise that this is going to come back to bite the Obama Administration in the ass. These

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-19 Thread THE ANNOINTED ONE
Keith, Just a SMALL sampling of the convention rules that Gitmo violated on a daily basis. It was not ONLY the torture clause. Please point out ANY ambiguous clauses.rule of law is what used to give the US an advantage both on and off the field of battle.. They have thrown it out as well

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-19 Thread Keith In Tampa
Hey Mark! There is one major flaw with your premise. These folks are not prisoners of war. They are illegal enemy combatants, who wear no uniform, who are beholding to no Nation-State other than a fanatical cultish religion, and who are intent upon destroying yours and my way of life, to

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-19 Thread Mark
Art. 4. Persons protected by the Convention are those who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals. On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Keith In

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-19 Thread Mark
Protected persons shall continue to have the benefit of such agreements as long as the Convention is applicable to them, except where express provisions to the contrary are contained in the aforesaid or in subsequent agreements, or where more favourable measures have been taken with regard to them

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-19 Thread Mark
Ad not last but not least They ARE Parties to the Conflict Thus are directly identified.: Art. 9. The present Convention shall be applied with the cooperation and under the scrutiny of the Protecting Powers whose duty it is to safeguard the interests of the Parties to the conflict. For this

Re: The Steven Bradbury Memoranda On Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: I Am Wanting To Hear Perspectives!!

2009-04-19 Thread Mark
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Human_Rights/geneva1.html On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Keith In Tampa keithinta...@gmail.comwrote: Hey Mark! There is one major flaw with your premise. These folks are not prisoners of war. They are illegal enemy combatants, who wear

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