theplumline.whorunsgov.com - 5/8/2009
globalsecurity.org - 5/9/2009
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Washington 30 April 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama
says the practice known as "waterboarding", or simulated drowning,...
used on certain high-level terrorist suspects under the Bush administration is torture. At a prime-time news conference late ...
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Obama Says Waterboarding is Torture
politics.theatlantic.com - 5/12/2009
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Rep. Pete Hoekstra (MI), the top Republican on
the House Intelligence Committee, is calling for the CIA...
to release its notes from the meeting in which, according to a report released last week , it briefed members of Congress including Nancy Pelosi on ...
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Hoekstra: Release CIA Notes On Congressional Briefing
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Hoekstra says waterboarding was legal, claims ‘there is a wide range of waterboarding.’
Think Progress —
In a tense interview on Fox News today, host Shep Smith repeatedly pressed Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) if waterboarding is torture. Hoekstra initially dodged, saying, “I don’t know if it’s torture or not.” “I’d like an answer, sir,” Smith responded. Asked a fourth time, Hoekstra finally said he believes that interrogations used in the “immediate aftermath” of 2002 — which included waterboarding — were “consistent” with the law:
Q: And waterboarding is or is not torture?
HOEKSTRA: There is a wide range of waterboarding. I’m ...
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In 2006, a certain member of Congress laid out the President's and Intelligence Community's obligation under the National Security Act to brief Congress on intelligence activities.
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The parade of morons continues in the GOP, the only difference between Pete Hoekstra and Steve King or Michelle Bachman is 3 IQ points. Of course, that still leaves Pete about four dice-rolls short of ' Yahtzee! '. Q: And waterboarding is or is not torture? HOEKSTRA: There is a wide range ...
Hoekstra: I would have approved waterboarding in certain circumstances —
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Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking member of the House intelligence committee, said Thursday that he would have approved enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding in some circumstances, in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.
Hoekstra also appeared to say that waterboarding ...
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today repeated her claim that she was not briefed by the CIA on harsh interrogation tactics and suggested (as Republican Pete Hoekstra has ) that the CIA should "release the briefings" it gave to her and Rep. Porter Goss, the top Republican on the House Intelligence ...
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