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On Book Tour Instead of Trial, Part 7,342
WASHINGTON (AP) — The retired top CIA officer who ordered the destruction of videos showing waterboarding says in a new book that he was tired of waiting for Washington's bureaucracy to make a decision that protected American lives.
Jose Rodriguez, who oversaw the CIA's once-secret interrogation and detention program, also lashes out at President Barack Obama's administration for calling waterboarding torture and criticizing its use.
"I cannot tell you how disgusted my former colleagues and I felt to hear ourselves labeled 'torturers' by the president of the United States," Rodriguez writes in his book, "Hard Measures."
The book is due out April 30. The Associated Press purchased a copy Tuesday.
The chapter about the interrogation videos adds few new details to a narrative that has been explored for years by journalists, investigators and civil rights groups. But the book represents Rodriguez's first public comment on the matter since the tape destruction was revealed in 2007.
That revelation touched off a political debate and ignited a Justice Department investigation that ultimately produced no charges. Critics accused Rodriguez of covering up torture and preventing the public from ever seeing the brutality of the CIA's interrogations. Supporters hailed him as a hero who acted in the best interest of the country in the face of years of bureaucratic hand-wringing.
The tapes, filmed in a secret CIA prison in Thailand, showed the waterboarding of terrorists Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Nashiri.
Especially after the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, Rodriguez writes, if the CIA's videos were to leak out, officers worldwide would be in danger.
"I wasn't going to sit around another three years waiting for people to get up the courage," to do what CIA lawyers said he had the authority to do himself, Rodriguez writes. He describes sending the order in November 2005 as "just getting rid of some ugly visuals."
Rodriguez writes critically of Obama's counterterrorism policies today. With no way to capture and interrogate terrorists, Rodriguez says, the CIA relies far too much on drones. Unmanned aerial attacks alienate America's foreign partners and make it impossible to question people in the know, he says.
These points could foreshadow Republican attack lines in the presidential race because other former senior CIA officers are advising presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
The killing of Osama bin Laden is Obama's signature national security accomplishment, but Rodriguez writes that valuable intelligence from the CIA's "black sites" helped lead the U.S. to bin Laden.
The book is published by Threshold, a conservative imprint of Simon and Schuster that also published former Vice President Dick Cheney's memoir.
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Hey kidz!!! Torture is only good for getting forced confessions.
Notice how Zionist Rothschild owned Reuters has already condemned the 9-11 patsy
. . . a man they claim is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed . .. and the Gate-Keeping
Huffington Post . . picks up the story . ..
(clpped headline and article from Reuters)
"Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: Little Evidence That Harsh Treatment Used
By CIA Produced Any Counter-Terrorism Breakthroughs -
The Bush Administration only used water-boarding on three captured suspects.
One of them was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks."
Everyone see that? There is no "alleged mastermind" . . there is no "man accused of
being the mastermind" . . . No, in typcial Zionist psy-op modus operandi, we have
the "tribal" press acting as judge and jury to not only condemn an innocent person that was
tortured into making false confessions on a crime he did not and could not have done . . .
. . . but protecting the REAL criminals that did mastermind, orchestrate, carry out and
cover up the terrorist attacks of 9-11. . . that Triumvirate of Terror made up of Israel's
Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, and Shimon Peres.
Oh, well . . . I guess there is The Law . . .and then there is The Law . ..
CBS News in New York tells me that . . and I quote:
"What made matters so difficult is that Jewish law forbids informing on another Jew."
I guess that would certainly explain why Dual Israeli citizen Rabbi Michael Chertoff worked so
hard and quietly to get fellow Israeli MOSSAD operatives from Urban Moving Systems,
Sivan Kurzberg, Paul Kurzberg, Yaron Shmuel, Oded Ellner and Omer Marmari, who
were arrested on 9-11 in vans packed with explosives back safely to Israel to join their
"boss" Dominik Suter who had fled back to Israel on September 14, 2001.
One can only speculate as to why the REAL Mastermind of the 9-11 Terrorist Attacks
and a known International War Criminal . . .
. . . in a display of hubris even more nauseating than going on a book tour to promote
why torture is a good and necessary thing .. ..
. . .got 29 standing ovations before the U.S. Congress rather than being arrested for
WAR CRIMES, MASS MURDER, and TERRORISM the moment he stepped foot on
U.S. Soil on 24 May 2011.
I guess there is The Law . . and then there is The Law . . .
"Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put
the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial."
- Ariel Sharon, Israeli Prime Minister
Maybe someone will write a book to explain it all . .. and go on tour . . . ;-)
"Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look?
It's based on a novel by a man named Lear
And I need a job, so I want to be a paperback writer,
Paperback writer.
It's a dirty story of a dirty man
And his clinging wife doesn't understand.
Their son is working for the Daily Mail,
It's a steady job but he wants to be a paperback writer,
Paperback writer."
- "Paperback Writer" by The Beatles
peace.