Obama: "We tortured some folks"

[Didymus 34,380]

 

Barack Obama has admitted that the American government tortured Al Qaeda suspects after

9/11: "We tortured some folks". Never before did Obama speak so clearly about the "interrogation techniques" of the CIA.

 

Transcript:

 

"First of all, I think it's important to note that, with respect to the larger point of the RDI report itself, even before I came into office I was very clear that, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong. We did a whole lot of things that were right, but.. we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values. I understand why it happened. I think it's important, when we look back to recall how afraid people were after the Twin Towers fell and the Pentagon had been hit and the plane in Pennsylvania had fallen and people did not know whether more attacks were iminent, and there was enormous pressure on our law enforcement and our national security team to try to deal with this, and.. you know, it's important for us not to feel too sanctimonious in retrospect about the tough job that those folks had. And a lot of those folks were working hard and under enormous pressure, and were real patriots, but having said all that, we did some things that.. were wrong."

 

Video: http://deredactie.be/cm/vrtnieuws/videozone/nieuws/buitenland/MV_140802-ruw-Obama-folteren

 

This speech comes in response to the future declassification of the long-awaited summary of a U.S. Senate committee study of a CIA program that used "enhanced interrogations" and secret prisons to extract information from captured militants. Human rights activists and CIA critics, including some U.S. politicians, have described the CIA's techniques as torture.

 

Over the last two weeks, former directors and deputy directors of the CIA have been invited by the Obama administration to review a still-secret version of the 600-page Senate Intelligence Committee summary at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

 

The committee's full report, on what was known as the CIA's Rendition/Detention/Interrogation (RDI) program, runs to 6,000 pages and is based on committee investigators' review of 6 million or more pages of documents that recorded the program's activities in minute detail. Several officials said it was likely that the full report and documentation will never be made public.

[Bye 3,947]

The way he says it though....tortured some folks.... :awkney:

[Chic 20,830]

How about he apologizes for torturing the entire country since 2008

[Spyro 8,438]

Why bring this up again?

[Fizzy 2,217]

I thought everyone already knew before he said anything?

[ThatSLAYGUY 68]

folks

[Didymus 34,380]

Why bring this up again?

 

I thought everyone already knew before he said anything?

 

Added some more background in the OP about the reason for the speech.

[Adakam 2]

and what is he or his country gonna win with this? why would he admit that? it just looks bad

[Yanko 9,860]

democracy chanteuse 

 

The way he says it though....tortured some folks....

[Arturo 40,746]

Um we already knew this.

How about he apologizes for torturing the entire country since 2008

lol as if we would be living in paradise if Romney or any other republican candidate would be in power.

[ByeBye49 161]

I am seriously missing out on so much news like this, hard to come across in Australia when I don't watch the news. 

 

It will be on the internet if it's that important. 

 

Interesting to know anyway, the way he says it though. "Folks" 

[Fizzy 2,217]

Added some more background in the OP about the reason for the speech.

Oh okie. I was just saying that because I thought people shouldn't be kept in the dark from the truth and so I thought they should have know this before he spoke of it.

[Talis 7]

How about he apologizes for torturing the entire country since 2008

Because it's so hard in America.

[Chic 20,830]

Um we already knew this.

lol as if we would be living in paradise if Romney or any other republican candidate would be in power.

It's not that a republican candidate would be any better, why assume that? I'm perfectly comfortable not affiliating with either side politically and I just don't believe that Obama has done a good job leading the country.

Because it's so hard in America.

That doesn't invalidate what I said. Every country has its highs and lows.

[ItsTommyBitch 12,640]

I can hear him say it too "we tortured some folks"

 

 

I already knew this though. I don't have much respect for most all governments so this comes as no surprise to me  It doesn't change my opinion on him or the American government either, because my view of both is already so tarnished.