Administration didn’t heed FBI complaints about torture

Include FBI agents among those who objected to the interrogation techniques used on detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. Agents repeatedly complained that the techniques might violate the law and jeopardize future criminal trials, according to an exhaustive report released Tuesday by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine. But those protests didn’t appear to trigger any response from the National Security Council, which includes President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

8 Comments

  1. Regular
    Posted May 22, 2008 at 6:55 am | Permalink

    wussies…

  2. george
    Posted May 22, 2008 at 7:07 am | Permalink

    Killers of our young men do not deserve any special treatment, hang them and/or do what ever it takes to get the story out.

  3. writerdog
    Posted May 22, 2008 at 7:42 am | Permalink

    Oh just save it for the trials already!

  4. bth
    Posted May 22, 2008 at 10:16 am | Permalink

    That’s right george. And if some stupid Iraqi is foolish enough to just look like our enemy (after all, they do all look alike) just kill them all!

    /sarcasm off

  5. lucee
    Posted May 22, 2008 at 10:53 am | Permalink

    And when has the Bush Administration cared about following the rules? This bunch has been the most secretive administration. Remember when the big oil executives were allowed to write the energy policies in secret during Bush’s first term? And now we wonder why gas prices are so high?

    Bush campaigned on ‘I’m a uniter, not a divider’. The only thing I’ve seen is Bush and Cheney united against any transparency of what has gone on in their 7 years in office. In fact, if questioned about anything, Bush and Cheney will both declare the questioner as being unpatriotic, rather than answer any questions.

    Our democracy is based on the will of the people, by the people and for the people. Where in the Constitution does it say the president and vice-president has the right to do everything in secret? The reason we have 3 branches of government is for checks and balances. During the first 6 years of Bush, he had a rubber-stamp Republican Congress. So much for checks and balances.

    But remember this Republicans, all those special privileges that Bush and Cheney gave themselves, will now be available to the next president – even if he/she is a Democrat. You may not like what you get.

  6. sursum
    Posted May 22, 2008 at 2:05 pm | Permalink

    lucee: By the people for the people……Nice sentiment and original thought, but western democracies are now run by public opinion, those who form it, along with special interest groups.

  7. Nathaniel
    Posted May 22, 2008 at 7:08 pm | Permalink

    Phillip,

    Why do you keep twisting words?

    The FBI didn’t like the interrogation TECHNIQUES.

    Please show me anywhere where the FBI said that they didn’t agree with the “torture” being done.

    Do you have any integrity at all?

  8. Jed
    Posted May 23, 2008 at 2:20 am | Permalink

    Nathan,
    I suppose to your tiny twisted mind, the cricifixion wasn’t torture either, just the next to final step in the creation of a god.