Comments on: Breaking: Torture Architect John Rizzo Still Working at CIA

By: HardheadedLiberal

HardheadedLiberal — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:13:41 +0000

Apparently no one has mentioned that John Brennan, the former CIA official that Obama tried to nominate for Director but who ended up inside the White House as Obama’s probable main adviser on intelligence matters, is the likely protector of Rizzo.

Both of them need to go. Obama needs to learn that just because he has made serious errors in judgment in choosing advisers does not mean that he has to continue making those errors for the rest of his first term.

In fact, since these advisers include Larry Summers, John Brennan, and the head of the Auto Rescue task force, Obama may not get more than one term unless he learns this lesson - and fast!

By: Mary

Mary — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:19:31 +0000

Nice tie choice for his testimony.

By: maeme

maeme — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:17:20 +0000

In response to Styve at 82. Zelikow has been on tv again this afternoon proclaiming his background with prisoners and his memo disappearing. I can see his carrying the water for Condi Rice on this one totally. She wants to smell like a rose in this thing but is in up to her eyeballs. Something is up that he would come out now. He was such a good soldier during the 9-11 commission keeping so much testimony and evidence out of that report.

No way can we have another bi-partisan commission. We need a special prosecutor. Those bi-partisan commissions are washington speak for don-t blame anyone.

By: MrWhy

MrWhy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:30:15 +0000

Has anyone asked Zelikow if he knows of anyone who has a copy of his memo arguing that the SERE techniques might well be deemed torture in a court of law? Does Zelikow have a copy? Does Condi have a copy?

By: Leen

Leen — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:23:31 +0000

It has been amazing to hear how many former CIA analyst, up the ladder military folk have come out and said torture does not work. Besides being illegal and immoral unreliable information while you think you are drowning for the sixth time that day

By: SparklestheIguana

SparklestheIguana — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:56:18 +0000

What?? Surely the wingnut welfare spigot hasn’t been shut off!

By: Fractal

Fractal — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:05:26 +0000

there was a flurry of posts yesterday in Marcy’s thread on OLC+CIA=CYA about predictions from Sen. Sheldon (Dead-Eye Shelly) Whitehouse on Monday night on Rachel Maddow that the OPR report would be coming out in a few “weeks” and would be “devastating.” A good link was put up yesterday at TPM or TPMMuckraker, but it’s not on either of their front pages today.

So, a few “weeks.” Maybe in time for Mother’s Day?

By: klynn

klynn — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:57:47 +0000

“This looks like the kinds of stuff Congressional hearings are made of,” Mark Fallon, deputy commander of the Criminal Investigation Task Force at Guantanamo, wrote in an Oct. 28, 2002 e-mail to his headquarters at Fort Belvoir, Va. “Someone needs to be considering how history will look back at this.”

Yep. That email quote will make it in the history books along with EW’s 183 post.

Thinking of putting that quote on a t-shirt.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:53:12 +0000

Thanks, we really should start something like a vampire watch to keep track of where all of the Bush era villains have gone.

By: Loo Hoo.

Loo Hoo. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 17:51:47 +0000

Good for Mark Fallon.