Progressive Rhetoric and Propaganda – Joy Behar…, posted with vodpod TRANSCRIPT: “11:03 HASSELBECK: But, I have to credit the Obama administration for continuing this pursuit and taking the baton from the Bush administration. Neither of these men wanted to bear this burden. Neither of them would ask for this. But to go ahead and act on it is outstanding. 11:22 … BARBARA WALTERS: And great … Read More
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Good Morning to all my Village friends and thank you once again Pumabydesign001 for an excellent post. Unity oh unity, how quick the left jumps to take credit for what others have done.
Bush-Era Interrogations Provided Key Details on Bin Laden’s Location
Years of intelligence gathering, including details gleaned from controversial interrogations of Al Qaeda members during the Bush administration, ultimately led the Navy SEALs who killed Usama bin Laden to his compound in Pakistan.
The initial threads of intelligence began surfacing in 2003 and came in the form of information about a trusted bin Laden courier, a senior U.S. official told Fox News on condition of anonymity. Bin Laden had cut off all traditional lines of communication with his network by this time because the Al Qaeda leader knew the U.S. intelligence community was monitoring him. It was said that he also didn’t even trust his most loyal men to know his whereabouts and instead communicated only through couriers.
But it was four years later, in 2007, that terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay military prison started giving up information about the key courier.
Around this time, the use of enhanced interrogation tactics, including waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning, were being denounced as torture by critics of the Bush administration. President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney came under intense pressure for supporting rough treatment of prisoners. Critics claimed that any information given under duress simply couldn’t be trusted.
It is an argument that Bush and Cheney strongly rejected then, and now.
“I would assume that the enhanced interrogation program that we put in place produced some of the results that led to bin Laden’s ultimate capture,” Cheney told Fox News on Monday, a hint of vindication in his voice.
Information was given up by prisoners, including 9/11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. U.S. officials described the courier as a talented protege and trusted associate of both Mohammed and Al Qaeda’s No. 3 leader at the time, Abu Faraj al Libi. Both men were held at Guantanamo Bay.
U.S. officials were told the courier’s name was known only to bin Laden’s innermost circle.
By 2009, the U.S. intelligence community had a rough idea of where the courier operated: a region north of Islamabad, Pakistan. It was another year before this compound was identified in August 2010 as a likely home for a senior Al Qaeda member.
The compound was eight times the size of other homes in the affluent neighborhood, and the impressive 18-foot-high walls with barbed wire drew scrutiny from intelligence analysts.
By early this year, information from multiple intelligence sources, including the now-shuttered harsh interrogation program, as well as CIA operatives and Special Operations Forces on the ground in Afghanistan and Pakistan, were building a clearer case that the compound might house bin Laden. Officials found out that there were three families living there. In addition, a significantly older man, who was shown deference by the group, was not required to work on the compound.
Critics of the Bush-era interrogation programs have suggested that the harsh interrogations were not essential to tracking bin Laden and that the information could have been obtained by more humane means. But for Cheney and other Bush administration alumni, Sunday’s raid stands as proof their system worked.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/02/bush-era-interrogations-provided-key-details-bin-ladens-location/#ixzz1LI6DJgDN
Commented on Puma’s Post:
The View” is nothing but a circus sideshow. I’ve always thought that Hasselbeck deserves combat pay.
Good Morning Freedom….. Hasselbeck is the voice of reason in a sea of delusion.
I might be wrong on this, but it is my understanding that Bill Clinton was handed Bin Laden’s head on a platter at least 3 times (all pre-9/11), and for whatever reason refused to take him. I wonder what Slick Willy thinks now.
According to Politco the WH is now changing the details of the story of how they got bin Laden. More old Kremlin lies? I suspect so. One never knew the truth about anything in the old USSR as the Kremlin could never get the stories straight. Now the SAME thing in DC? Unbelievable! The Soviets didn’t disappear I guess. They moved to Washington.
So Caesar Obama is riding high as if he did this all himself and I expected nothing different from this egomaniac. And of course the lackey media is licking it all up like a kitten with milk…even though it is sour milk indeed. BO and his lackey media freaks are going to play this for all they can get, obviously.
And the 2012 elections?? The Republicans had better get their lazy behinds in gear NOW and present a candidate who has a chance to DEFEAT Obama! So far I have seen NONE! This Republic cannot endure 4 more years of the Obamanation (as in abomination)!!
Afternoon Otis and Rob…. You can bet now that Obama and Company have had 24 hours to digest this accomplishment that their writers are already re-writing this history just as they have all of American History. The Left Wing nuts will gobble this up and petition the Pope to give Obama official Saint Hood. Hood would be more like it.
LOL and can we assume that the rewrite of this bit of history goes along with that lunacy the Hillarious Hillary stated not long ago? You know, “Muslims have always been a part of American history.” Call me ignorant but I did not know that Tom Jefferson was a Muslim.
Yes, “Hood” is the more appropriate title even though he’s never been anywhere near the REAL Hood, homey. Word….and etc etc etc LOL. Me thinks BO and his LIE-berals have forgotten that he is only HALF black and white.
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