Rove 'proud' of US waterboarding terror suspects

[Judi Lynn]

Source: BBC News

Page last updated at 01:46 GMT, Friday, 12 March 2010
Rove 'proud' of US waterboarding terror suspects

A senior adviser to former US President George W Bush has defended tough interrogation techniques, saying their use helped prevent terrorist attacks.

In a BBC interview, Karl Rove, who was known as "Bush's brain", said he "was proud we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists".

He said waterboarding, which simulates drowning, should not be considered torture.

In 2009, President Barack Obama banned waterboarding as a form of torture.

But the practice was sanctioned in written memos by Bush administration lawyers in August 2002, providing legal cover for its use.




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[kktk5950]

1. sick bastard

[proud patriot]

3. +1

welcome underground :hi:

[sellitman]

4. +2

:puke:

[LakeSamish706]

2. "In 2009, President Barack Obama banned waterboarding as a form of torture. "

Really, and yet he didn't chose to whisper in the ear of Mr. Holder that maybe these guys aught to be charged?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. Perhaps Fitzgerald should have used waterboarding on Rove?

and then we would have open the can of worms

[IDemo]

7. I hate when a porkchop package is full of water

but I'll make an exception in this case.

[Vinnie From Indy]

6. One of the most evil Americans ever!

It is an extremely sad affair that he and others in the lawless Bush Admin will never see the inside of prison cell.

[HughMoran]

8. Yeah, and I'd be 'proud' to see you executed for treason

so, we're even.

[Solly Mack]

9. Sick

[Jefferson23]

10. Keep talking you fucking schmuck, I do hope the international community

is taking notes.

"should not be considered torture"..too late, it already is.

[Archae]

11. You know what ad appeared while I was reading this?

"Keep America Safe." :wtf:

That's right, Liz Cheney's hysteria group.

[TankLV]

12. Well well well - another WAR CRIMINAL admits his crimes!!!

snd STILL Nancy, Barack and Harry REFUSE to go after them and seek JUSTICE!!!

but obama has a KUTE KENNEDY DOGGIE!!!

so that makes everything okie dokie...

[No Elephants]

13. Haven't the statutes of limitations run by now? I think that's why they are all "confessing" so

proudly.

[saigon68]

14. No limitations for War Crimes etc. Ask Slobodan Milosovic and Eichmann

[tanyev]

15. How many sessions did you sneak in and watch, you slimy weasel?

[Steerpike]

16. yeah well

he's about 500 pound of shit shoved into a tiny weenie bag...

[lunatica]

17. Nancy Pelosi told Rachel Maddow yesterday that the evidence

against Bush and his administration had to be much more solid than it had been. That that was the reason she took impeachment off the table but that she thinks there should always be accountablility. I wonder if all the confessions coming out leave any impression on her.

[Mari333]

18. again, and I say it again and again and again UNTIL THESE GUYS ARE INVESTIGATED

their dirty deeds will be legitimized..NO ONE is calling them out on war crimes..NO ONE>

[sabra]

19. Karl Rove Says He's "Proud" of Waterboarding, Interrogation Tactics

Source: CBS News

President Bush's senior political adviser Karl Rove said in an interview this week he is proud that the United States used waterboarding in its efforts to prevent terrorist attacks and that the extreme interrogation method is not torture. Speaking to the BBC, Rove also said, however, that reasonable people may disagree about whether it is torture.

"I'm proud that we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists and gave us valuable information that allowed us to foil plots such as flying airplanes into Heathrow and into London, bringing down aircraft over the Pacific, flying an airplane into the tallest building in Los Angeles and other plots," Rove said. "Yes, I'm proud that we kept the world safer than it was, by the use of these techniques. They're appropriate, they're in conformity with our international requirements and with U.S. law."

When pressed on whether waterboarding is torture, Rove said unequivocally, "No, it's not." He added that "reasonable people can disagree... This isn't something about which we can argue. It is not a situation of black and white."

The BBC asked Rove about an assertion from the former head of MI5, the Britain intelligence service, who said that former President Bush and his advisers were inspired by the Fox television show "24" to pursue a "war on terror."

"That's laughable," Rove said. "I know President Bush, he doesn't watch television much except for sporting events; same with Secretary (of Defense Donald) Rumsfeld. While Vice President Cheney was a fan of '24,' he is fully capable of distinguishing between fact and fiction."

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http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/135628/Bush-asked-Bernard-for-24-plot


BUSH ASKED BERNARD FOR 24 PLOT

Thursday October 22,2009


24 star CARLOS BERNARD was shocked when he met GEORGE W. BUSH - because the former U.S. President is obsessed with the hit show.

Bernard's character Tony Almeida was apparently killed off during the drama's fifth season in 2006, but stunned fans when he returned two series later.

And the cliffhanger kept even the most powerful on tenterhooks - the then-President Bush was desperate to discover Almeida's fate when he bumped into Bernard.

The actor says, "He grabbed me at a baseball game in the U.S. A big guy came up to me and said, 'Excuse me, the President would like to speak with you.' I went over, and it was George W. Bush, and he said 'Hey Carlos, when are you coming out of that coma? All I can do is watch that show of yours. Are you coming back?' I was like, you don't have anything better to do?"

[pattmarty]

20. I can't even think of a goddamned thing to say about this. I am so........

............frustated and pissed off at the Dems & Obama letting this type of shit continue and letting these fucking criminals off the hook.

[Bitwit1234]

21. Of course they brag about this stuff NOW

they know the democrats are too weak kneed to bring them to justice.

[superconnected]

22. Disgusting. People for torture really need it done to them. This inable to sympathize type

doesn't really learn any other way. I think it's a psychology problem. Seriously, he can't feel emotions to empathize with others pain. Either that or he's naturally cruel which may equate to the same thing.

[Metta]

23. Hapy karma, Karl, and to all who won't prosecute war crimes. You inherit the suffering you cause.

... just the way it goes.

[Soylent Brice]

24. FUCK YOU KARL. n/t

[Blue Owl]

25. What an American

It's beyond me what makes this shitlick so special he's above the law.

He's the scummiest, sleaziest, most unethical sack of turds known to humankind.

[luckyleftyme2]

26. Karl Rove

Here he is much like the repukes of the past getting air time-what He doesn't say is his wife left him,his friends left him and he escaped prosecution but spilled his guts to save his butt!
This is a perfect example of someone who thinks rules are for others to follow it is much more important to bend them than follow them!
the country is a much better place if we keep him out of the limelight!
thanks to him and others like him our government is riddled with left over nut cases that think like him! and we are stuck paying for mistakes made from 2000-2O06!

[mbperrin]

27. I'd sure be proud to do the same to him!

Somedays you have got to dust off your better education, growth as a human, and just get medieval on shitstains who won't be dealt with by anyone in power, but who are allowed to run around bragging about and making millions of dollars being a disgusting piece of shit.

Dusted off and ready to go. Where will that sumbitch speak next?

[truthisfreedom]

28. "This isn't something about which we can argue." I wonder what a brain scan would reveal, rove.

Seriously, where do they teach that we can't argue about issues that "are not black and white"?

Ahh, yes, I remember, the dictator school.

[LeftHander]

29. Money where is fat head is...offer to be waterboarded KKKarl...

Simulates drowning because you are drowning.

It is just stopped before you die...

[Snazzy]

30. glad this made news in Europe

Maybe someone there still gives a shit about war crimes. I suppose the problem is that the Hague doesn't have a rendition program. Maybe we can do a citizen's arrest and stuff him on a plane.... Europe? You listening?

[nightrain]

31. Rove as psychopath...

[Doctor_J]

32. I can't believe he and Bush, Cheney, Yoo, and Rumsfeld

weren't put in cuffs and handed over to the Iraqis a year ago. The entire national dialog would have been different.

[fascisthunter]

33. psychopath

I bet he gets off on it too

[sakabatou]

34. Get off my planet, scumbag