{"id":10010,"date":"2009-04-23T06:53:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T11:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=10010"},"modified":"2009-04-23T06:58:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-23T11:58:05","slug":"punish-those-who-knew-about-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10010","title":{"rendered":"Punish those who knew about torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, something I can agree with along with the folks at Kos and HuffPo and Raw Story and all the rest of the dens of BDS sufferers. Let&#8217;s punish those folks who gave approval for the supposed and so-called torture techniques that the CIA used. Here&#8217;s some of the people I want imprisoned (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2009\/apr\/23\/top-legislators-knew-of-interrogations\/\">Washington Times<\/a> link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia and Rep. Jane Harman of California, all Democrats.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the Washington Times&#8217; Kara Rowland, the three above were among the legislators who knew about the &#8220;torture&#8221; (I used quotation marks, because apparently what everyone else is calling torture is really just surprisingly mild discomfort) and gave at least tacit approval for the techniques.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The CIA briefed top Democrats and Republicans on the congressional intelligence committees on enhanced interrogation techniques more than 30 times, according to intelligence sources, who said those members tacitly approved the techniques which some Democrats in Congress now say should land Bush administration officials in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2002 and 2006, the top Republicans and Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees &#8220;each got complete, benchmark briefings on the program,&#8221; said one of the intelligence sources who is familiar with the briefings. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, so instead of just pursuing Bush folks who are trying to stay employed in the private sector, let&#8217;s go after some of these congressmen and Senators who have nothing to do but answer stupid pointless questions all day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, something I can agree with along with the folks at Kos and HuffPo and Raw &hellip; <a title=\"Punish those who knew about torture\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10010\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Punish those who knew about torture<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}