Bush Aide: Leahy Truth Commission Is ‘Terribly Dangerous’ Idea, Possibly ‘Deadly’»

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/13/bushie-deadly-torture-investigations/

Bush Aide: Leahy Truth Commission Is ‘Terribly Dangerous’ Idea, Possibly ‘Deadly’»

Last night on The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly showed a clip of a Fox News producer ambushing Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) to accuse him of political hypocrisy for urging an investigation into Bush crimes after he had opposed the Clinton impeachment. “This Leahy thing — this is beyond the pale,” O’Reilly moaned.

Marc Thiessen, Bush’s former chief speechwriter, agreed. Not only would the investigations be hypocritcal, he said, but worse, they would be “terribly dangerous” because they would expose the “facts” of the U.S.’s interrogation techniques to Osama bin Laden:

THIESSEN: {T}he facts that they want to get out are the techniques we use to interrogate terrorists. The techniques that we used to intercept e-mails and communications and telephone calls. And when you get those facts out, it’s not just going out to the American people and to the viewers on television. It’s going out to Osama bin Laden. It’s going out to the terrorists who can use those information to get around our intelligence and plan the next attack.

So it’s very deadly — this is very deadly serious stuff. … And it’s terribly dangerous.

He also emphasized that the people Leahy might investigate “aren’t torturers, they’re heroes.” “They should be getting a parade on Pennsylvania Avenue,” he added.

Watch it at link~

Pushing for greater secrecy in the name of terrorism is the reflexive reaction for right-wing torture-lovers. Last year, former Cheney chief of staff David Addington refused to speak about waterboarding to Congress, saying that terrorists might be paying attention: “I can’t talk to you, al Qaeda may watch C-SPAN.” In 2007, National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell said “Americans are going to die” if surveillance is discussed openly; Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman told Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) that “public discussion” of an Iraq withdrawal “reinforces enemy propaganda.”

Yet despite their fearmongering on the consequences of investigations, the American public firmly supports such inquiries: Nearly two-thirds of Americans support examining potential crimes committed by the Bush administration, with 40 percent supporting criminal investigations.

[bdamomma]

1. possibly "deadly" for who?

[hobbit709]

6. That was exactly my thought too.

[bdamomma]

9. "deadly" for the person who wants to investigate

could they be talking about Leahy?

[hobbit709]

7. Dupe

[aquart]

2. So he thinks if we knew, we'd hang 'em for sure?

Gosh, I hope so.

[notadmblnd]

3. Sure, it dangerous.. It will show them for what they really are

and they'll all end up in prison. Either that, or witnesses will suddenly be suicided. that's where the death will come in.

[EraOfResponsibility]

4. hmm, they're scared...that's a good thing....n/m

[pleah]

5. Deadly for them, perhaps. n/t

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. Marc Thiessen-spokesman for Sen. Jesse Helms from 1995 to 2001

Then became Bush's speech writer in 2001

Jesse Helms ........... remember him?

[underpants]

10. So the only thing they thought out to the next step was how to protect themselves

Theissen is a douchebag

[Life Long Dem]

11. He's guilty just slap the cuffs on him.

Give him the same day in court Saddam had before he hung him.

Why submit this evidence if you don't need to? He's guilty. Excuses, excuses, excuses! :banghead:

[wryter2000]

12. Okay, now I'm for it

Seriously, if it has them bleating about the terra-ists, it's a good thing.

[peacetalksforall]

13. Does anyone have any idea on how Americans can get killed by the truth in this situation?

[Kansas Wyatt]

14. When the "truth" of their treason is revealed, demands for justice will follow.

They are likening their opponents (Independent, Democrats, Moderate Republicans, etc.) in the image of Osama Bin Laden and terrorists who stand against them. 'Either with us, or against us.' People will be calling for their heads, if the truth were ever revealed to the American People, so they look at it as terrorists against them.

To BushCo. & Republicans, there is NO difference between terrorists and liberals. If liberals found out what they did, they would view liberals demanding justice as an attack on their 'American Ideals' or an attack against America itself. They think their Ideals are the only ones for America, and everyone else is a terrorist for wanting something different. Yes, they are really that nuts, and they are willing to blow up America (start a Civil War or attack America) to acheive their 'American Ideals.'

[peacetalksforall]

15. Agree with what you say, wo you are you saying there are no examples that

they can use of the danger from bin Laden?

[MadBadger]

16. Hey Mark...YOU'RE A FUCKING SPEECH WRITER!

So STFU....and did you see Shrub give speeches? YOU SUCK!