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Originally Posted by I B Hankering
The Pakistanis have sentenced a certain doctor to 33 years imprisonment, and the doctor's name was never actually revealed. It was circumstantial evidence related to what was revealed that led to his arrest and detention.
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You're talking about the Pakistani doctor that helped the CIA find OBL by setting up a fake vaccination program. He was convicted on for treason in Pakistan for that. We did leak details of how that all went down. Enough so that they figured out who set it up.
Those details should not have been leaked and once they were we should have not left him behind. IMO.
It's tough to find unbiased journalism anymore. I usually go to Reuters.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/...0JM24I20141210
What I get from that piece is that the Senate Committee determined that what we did amounted to torture. No big news there. It's what I would have expected from a Democratic committee.
It goes on to say that other countries are expressing outrage over our conduct. Again, nothing I wouldn't expect. Some of the countries and the UN are calling for prosecutions. That will never happen...At least I don't think it will.
The only names I hear are the ones we would expect to hear like former CIA directors. Does this report put a price on their head more so than what was probably already there? I'm just questioning the conservative talking heads that say this will put American lives in danger. I want to know why they think that and who is in danger of being outed.
My feelings on this is that it is a bit of vindictiveness on the part of the Democrats after their defeat last month but maybe it goes beyond that.
Enhanced interrogation/torture was an issue in 2008 and the Democrats were successful in using that issue to their advantage at the polls.
They lost quite a bit of momentum last month on many of their best talking points like the war on women. I just wonder if this isn't a Democratic strategy to reopen the whole enhanced interrogation/torture debate ahead of the many Republicans sure to announce they are seeking nomination after the first of the year.
If that's what they are doing I don't think it's going to hold water. People are tired of hearing about it and it's going to make the Dems looks like they are reaching for campaign strategy because they have nothing new to campaign on.
Unless I see other proof I think the reaction is overblown and is playing right into the Democrats hands at the moment.
