Interesting, Covert CIA Agents’ Cover Outed

But NO Outcry to Prosecute the Scoundrels
John R. Houk
© August 29, 2009

Here is an alert from ACT! For America concerning the hypocrisy of the Left toward America’s National Security.

The ACLU took clandestine photos of covert CIA agents involved with extracting information from Gitmo Islamic terrorists. The Washington Post reported on the now public photos. It is interesting there are no cries to prosecute the ACLU for endangering the identities of covert CIA agents.

Let’s preface this alert with a little memory lane.

First there is the Plamegate scandal in which the Left was calling for Presidential impeachment and/or the clearing of the unpopular Bush Administration staffers. The Left MSM accused a leak coming directly from the White House divulging that Valerie Plame the wife of State Department hack Joe Wilson worked for the CIA.

Can you remember the LEFTIST OMG that the Bush Administration would leak information about the existence of a “covert” CIA operative out of vengeance for Joe Wilson’s hack report about Niger yellow cake and Saddam Hussein?

There was even screaming for a Special Prosecutor. That turned out to be Leftist bloodhound Patrick Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald went after everyone until he latched onto the rumor that Vice President Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff Scooter Libby allegedly divulged Plame’s information to the public.

After millions of dollars of taxpayer money Fitzgerald came up with bupkis. Evidently Fitzgerald needed some kind of justification for his license to the Leftist bidding of disrupting the Bush Administration.

So Fitzgerald’s million dollar staff poured over the ‘under oath’ statements provided to the Special Persecutor.

There was STILL no smoking gun linking anyone in the Bush/Cheney staff to outing not really so-covert Valerie Plame. Who knows how many times the statements taken received scouring until a new strategy to persecute someone among the Bush/Cheney staff?

Here is the confirmation that Fitzgerald ALREADY KNEW who released Plame’s name to the press? It was an anti-Bush Republican then working in the Defense Department, specifically Richard Armitage.

I guess it was not worth going after an anti-Bush Republican for Armitage never received a public “We gotcha” from Fitzgerald.

The new strategy entailed looking for statements that did not match from each individual under oath. Apparently Scooter Libby was the only person high enough for Fitzgerald to destroy. Libby was indicted for perjury.

Evidently it was more of a Federal crime to not remember recollections than it was for a sitting President to specifically get lying via DNA. Libby was indicted and convicted. Go figure! President Clinton perjured himself about sex with a White House intern and was impeached, but was found innocent by the then dominated Democratic Party Senate. Equal justice definitely was not spread out between the Left and the Right.

O yes, one other thing. Special Persecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spent millions of taxpayer dollars and did not convict one person for his Special Prosecutor mandate to find and prosecute anyone placing CIA operatives in mortal danger for revealing their cover. Fitzgerald’s lone conviction was a lame perjury verdict over memories that had to do with meetings and little to do with insignificant Valerie Plame.

Here is the ACT! For America email alert sent to me on 08/28/2009 01:56 PM :

Political Correctness Can Be Deadly

Political correctness can be annoying, frustrating, even exasperating.

But sometimes it can be deadly.

The commentary below [Editor: Michelle Malkin commentary link] exposes what can only be described as an infuriating excess of political correctness that will not only compromise our war against Islamist terrorism — it may cost people their lives.

The ACLU, in its obsession to put the “rights” of alleged terrorists ahead of law-abiding citizens and CIA agents, has been caught surreptitiously photographing CIA agents in order to show their pictures to alleged terrorists the ACLU is defending.

By doing so the ACLU has put these agents’ lives at risk in what appears to us to be an obvious violation of federal law, such as The Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982.

Will the Justice Department properly investigate the ACLU? We hope so.

But given Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent wrong-headed decision to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate interrogation actions by CIA interrogators, it’s difficult not to conclude that Holder’s sympathies lie more with the ACLU than they do with safeguarding the lives of Americans and CIA agents.

Many experts and observers are concluding that the direction the Justice Department is going will ultimately undermine our intelligence gathering as interrogators, fearful they may eventually be prosecuted, will choose to avoid any tactic that even remotely could be interpreted as “excessive.” How many terrorist plots will thus not be foiled, and how many people will die as a result? Only time will tell.

One of the interrogation practices that is being questioned is the blowing of cigar smoke in the face of an alleged terrorist. Can anyone outside of the anti-American left, the ACLU, and Eric Holder honestly believe that blowing cigar smoke in the face of a terrorist is “excessive,” or worse than the ACLU photographing CIA agents to show their pictures to terrorists?

This goes beyond absurd. This goes beyond political correctness run amok.

America, we must rise up against this insanity.

JRH 8/29/09

JIHAD COULD SPREAD IN U.S. PRISON SYSTEM!

Move America Forward (MAF) is one of the premier pro-troop organizations in America. MAF is rightfully investing their efforts in preventing the closure of Gitmo. The obvious reason is the inmates of Gitmo are mostly transnational terrorists captured by American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The Left has whined that the continued imprisonment of Gitmo detainee terrorists is becoming a violation of human rights, due process and a violation of the Geneva Accords as relating to Prisoners of War.

MAF and most sane Americans understand that Islamic terrorists are at war with America even if President Barack Hussein Obama and his Leftist cadres deny that war. Indeed many released Gitmo Islamic terrorist detainees have returned to their ways of killing American troops.

Here is a message from MAF presenting their case to Americans for funds to continue the educational fight against the Obama Administration and the Left.

JRH 8/1/09

Muslim Extremist Kills Young Army Soldier on American Soil!

Move America Forward (MAF) is one of the premier pro-troop organizations in America. Instead criticizing soldiers for protecting America in their overseas mission they are supportive.

Peace movements are fine and even a legitimate view; however when a peace organization because so virulently anti-war that American troops are vilified it is unacceptable.

Organizations like Code Pink who attempt to use humiliation tactics to prevent military recruiting or to portray the American military as evil are the true evil.

I am on MAF’s mailing list. As such I receive information about MAF’s outreach to support American troops. Now I realize that much of the MAF email pertains to fundraising. I often post the content of the MAF email because it has information that may not be reported in the Mainstream Media.

One such case is the email I received today. MAF reports that an American that has converted to Mohammedanism went on an Islamofascist murdering spree in Arkansas. The traitorous American’s name is Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad. The American-Muslim shot up an Arkansas military recruiting center in Little Rock, AR. Muhammad murdered to Privates in the process before he was taken down. After Muhammad’s capture it was discovered he much more ammunition which only indicates he was intent on murdering more Americans.

As a courtesy to MAF I am also including the information about the Troopathon that is coming up June 15.

JRH 6/2/09
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Muslim Extremist Kills Young Army Soldier on American Soil!

Move America Forward
Email Sent: Tue 6/2/2009 3:18 AM

When Will President Obama Realize Muslim Terrorists are Out to Kill Us?

Today in Little Rock, AR, a Muslim extremist shot up a recruiting center with an assault rifle from his black SUV. He killed 23-year-old Private William Long and injured Private Quinton Ezeagwula, both of the US Army. The suspect, Muslim convert Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, is in custody and police say he likely had “political and religious motives.”

At Move America Forward, we’ve been sounding the alarm about violence against our recruiters and their offices since our days in the streets of Berkeley, CA taking on the Code Pink whackos. While Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is worried about extremists protesting at tea parties, nobody bothered to investigate the Islamic extremist killer in this case who was recently in Yemen.

While Barack Obama keeps trying to protect the rights of Muslim terrorists at Guantanamo Bay and even free some of them in the United States, Americans are being killed right here in the United States, not to mention being under constant attack in Iraq and Afghanistan. What will it take to wake him up to the real threat faced by Americans?

We have to keep our voices loud and strong to wake up so many Americans that are taken in by the calm speeches while he continues to undermine American security and our efforts to defeat Islamic terrorism.

And contribute here to help us keep fighting

When fine young men like Private William Long are gunned down in America’s heartland for choosing to serve their country, we are reminded of how high the stakes really are. It’s imperative that the pro-troop message be heard far and wide.

The killer said that he wanted to kill as many Army personnel as possible. According to the police, he had over 200 rounds of ammunition still on him when he was apprehended.

We have to keep the pressure on Congress to stop any funding for closing Guantanamo Bay and bringing the terrorists to the United States. Move America Forward has a TV commercial ready to go on the air and stir Americans to act now before it is too late and we have terrorists right here in this country.

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You can watch the ad here on You Tube.

Care Package for the Troops Telethon Scheduled for June 25th



While we are shocked and saddened today by the shooting in Little Rock, we are busy in the office working on the Troopathon to send care packages to our troops. Every day brings more good news of conservative leaders and celebrities signing on to be part of our eight hour telecast on June 25th at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

We want to break the record we set last year – over $1.5 million – so every single military man and woman in Iraq and Afghanistan hears from an American with a personal message and a care package of goodies.

Please sponsor a package today toward this historic Troopathon effort.

With the Troopathon just a few weeks away, we have an opportunity to reach a critical mass and make our gigantic shipment the top story for our service members. Too often, the news they hear from back home is like today’s, but with our big name guests, our beefed up shipping operation, and our grassroots network (that’s YOU), we’re all set to break through the negative news cycle and make a big splash!

If we’re going to break last year’s record, it’s going to take a lot of reaching out and we’re planning a major blitz, but we still need your help. To work, the effort has to snowball, with each wave of orders feeding into a larger one. Please help get us jumpstarted today so the snowball can be big enough by June 25th that it sends an overwhelming message to our troops overseas.

SPONSOR A CARE PACKAGE TODAY TO HELP KICK OFF THIS GIANT PUSH

Please be as generous as you can today and help us start off with a bang and get rolling fast. Then tell your friends and family and get your community involved in this exciting nationwide campaign. And finally tune in to UStream.TV on June 25th for the pro-troop event of the year. You won’t want to miss it.

Let’s leave the naysayers in the dust and make history in the next 30 days. Please join us today in showing our troops how much they’re loved by American here at home and how much we’re pulling for them while they keep us safe. Our troops more than deserve it. For all the latest please check in regularly at http://www.troopathon.org/ and check our twitter feed.
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Torture and Gitmo!

I wish I had seen this video when torture and Gitmo was more front and center. Of course now everyone will talk about the new Justice nominee that hardly anyone can pronounce her name without phonetic coaching. I suspect Islamic terrorists are laughing their heads off among themselves when they hear what Leftists are calling unconscionable torture.

Purist Islam is More than a Religion

Awesome anti-radical Islamic organizations like Move America Forward and sister organizations like American Congress for Truth and ACT! For America as well as many other organizations and people comprehend the truth about Islam.

This comprehension has led to a clarion call to rightly keep Gitmo open as an Islamic-terrorist prison open.

Mohammedans obviously wants Gitmo closed and Islamic terrorists freed.

Deluded Leftists want Gitmo closed due to well meaning altruism and the belief that all human beings regardless of inherent evil deserve equal rights of protection under the law. The equal rights thing is a lofty goal; however I believe all ideologies and religions that actively practice and/or incite their disciples into non-State acts of war or acts of terrorism against innocent civilians or governments protecting those citizens have made the decision to revoke civil rights.

Many of these anti-close Gitmo organizations and people are trying to alert American citizens that radical Islam has embraced America’s prisons. The meaning of which convicts in American prisons are turning to the radical Islam espoused by Saudi Wahhabists and Salafist Mohammedan terrorists. After these convicts are released from prison they take their acquired Theo-political ideology with them and either join terrorist cells or act alone against the American rule of law.

Steven Emerson is one individual that takes this hotbed of Islamic radicalism in American prisons to point out the foolishness of sending Gitmo inmates to those prisons. It is viewed that these Gitmo inmates will be viewed as soldiers of Allah available to strengthen radical Islam permeating American prisons.

The Theo-political Islam being taught and practiced in America must stop! Many would argue that the deification of the Quran and lesser Mohammedan revered books is part and parcel to today’s radical Islam. I know there are Mohammedans that believe they are above the barbarity propagated in the Quran and other writings and consider themselves good Muslims. However I tend to agree with the train of thought that good Mohammedans are those that follow the “fundamental” teachings of those texts. In essence those labeled as radical Islamists are in reality purist Mohammedans after the order of the prophet-dude that founded this Theo-political empire-building death cult.

American-Mohammedans that promote the purist form of Islam are thus advocating the overthrow of the American government and American Liberty that Leftists believe they are protecting.

Do not believe for a moment that the radical Islam (advocators of death and destruction) is a religion after the manner of most religions looking for inner peace in one form or another. The only inner peace offered by Mohammed’s religion is to totally submit to the will to the carnality inherent in Islam. One of the primary enticements to fight for Islam is to die a martyr and enjoy the raw sex offered in the Mohammedan Paradise. This enticement led to conquering Mohammedan hoards slaughtering non-Muslims in the quest to spread the Islamic cancer by violence and/or degrading humiliation.

This is the purist Islam. This is the Islam of Islamic terrorists. This is the Islam of Wahhabi, of Salafi and of Twelver Shi’ites.

JRH 5/25/09

The Jihadi Virus in Our Jails

President Obama gave a speech on National Security in which he said the existence of Gitmo has been used as a battle cry by Islamic terrorists (Of course BHO used a more PC expression). The finality of BHO’s speech is the premise he still intends to shut down Gitmo. His own political party is kind-of behind the agenda to set Islamic terrorists free from Gitmo. The Democrats in Congress seem to be behind BHO’s agenda only as much that Islamic terrorists will not be settled among their constituents.

Hmm … I wonder if that means incarcerated war criminals are dangerous.

With this in mind Michele Malkin points out that President Obama did not mention nary a word about the home grown Islamic terrorists developing right under America’s noses. Malkin uses an example a group of African-Americans that were converted to Mohammedanism in an American prison.

Did you get that? American prisons are Islamic da’wa universities to recruit disgruntled and probably violent inmates and turn them into Islamic terrorists prepared to do acts of atrocity on American soil in most cases on fellow Americans. Why? It is because Allah told them to in the Quran.

JRH 5/23/09

Obama Loses Senate Vote on Gitmo!

It is reported that fifty Gitmo Islamic terrorists are to be released soon; however thanks to a Democratic Party controlled Congress and the complaining of constituents no Islamic terrorists will be released in America. Anyway as of this post no terrorists will be housed in America.

The Leftist Democrats have flipped about their bleeding heart agenda to close Gitmo if it means Islamic terrorists will be housed in America.

Here is a Move America Forward appeal for money to keep battling President Barack Hussein Obama’s intention of setting Islamic terrorists free from Gitmo. Perhaps MAF is taking a bit too much credit; nonetheless they are in the forefront on countering the slanted Left Mainstream Media BHO propaganda machine to shut Gitmo down.

JRH 5/22/09
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Obama Loses Senate Vote on Gitmo! Republicans Hold Press Conference

Move America Forward
Email Sent: 5/21/2009 7:44 AM

BREAKING: OBAMA SHOT DOWN! House and Senate Dems DENY Funds to Shut Down Gitmo

Huge Victory for Republicans on GITMO Policy

BREAKING NEWS FROM BREITBART.COM –

“Senate votes to block funds for Guantanamo closure”

“In a major rebuke to President Barack Obama, the Senate voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday to block the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the United States and denied the administration the millions it sought to close the prison.

The 90-6 Senate vote—paired with similar House action last week—was a clear sign to Obama that he faces a tough fight getting the Democratic-controlled Congress to agree with his plans to shut down the detention center and move the 240 detainees.”

Move America Forward is pleased to report that our relentless efforts to warn Congress and the American people about the dangers posed by closing Gitmo and bringing terrorists to America are PAYING OFF.

Earlier this month the House of Representatives stripped $80 Million from an Iraq/Afghanistan funding bill that Obama had requested for shutting down Guantanamo Bay.

House Democrats said ‘no’ to Obama and took the money out because even they realized President Obama has no plan for what to do with the terrorists if he shuts down Guantanamo Bay.

And now, today, the Senate just voted overwhelmingly to keep Guantanamo Bay open …FOR THE TIME BEING.

We have won an important battle, but the fight to keep terrorists OFF American soil continues!

Please make a contribution so that we can continue our efforts to keep the terrorists IN GITMO!

Republican National Security Rock-Stars hold Press Conference in Response

After today’s vote, Republicans immediately held a press conference to declare a strategic victory because—until further notice – the terrorists will continue to be held safely off American shores at Guantanamo Bay’s state-of-the-art facility.

Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma, who has worked with MAF many times before specifically on the Gitmo issue, led the press conference. Sen. Inhofe is a hero for American security interests as he is one of the most outspoken and courageous members of Congress when it comes to Guantanamo Bay. We applaud him for all his work and thank him for his support of Move America Forward.

“Though I am very pleased that Democrats in the Senate reversed course and voted today against including the $80 million in the war supplemental to close Gitmo, it is very likely that this funding could be included in future appropriations bills,” Senator Inhofe said. “I am encouraging all of my colleagues to sign onto my legislation to prevent any future funding for detainee transfers to the U.S.

Sen. Inhofe (R-OK)

Today’s press conference included several other Senators. All are vehement supporters of our troops and resolute in their commitment to keeping the terrorists sealed away at Gitmo. Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina, who helped MAF coordinate our public backlash against the Berkeley City Council after they insulted our troops and the Marines stationed at the Berkeley recruiting center, was also part of the press conference.

Senators David Vitter and Sam Brownback, both who recently visited Gitmo, and Senators Mike Johanns, Bob Bennet, Pat Roberts and Kay Bailey Hutchison also participated in the press conference. Click Here to watch a short clip from the press conference.

MAF is truly grateful to have the support of such esteemed leaders as Senator Inhofe, Senator Jim DeMint and House Minority Leader John Boehner. Because of our combined efforts, Gitmo will remain open, for at least a little longer, and terrorists will not be welcome on American soil.

We look forward to continuing our work and holding more public events to spread the truth about Guantanamo Bay – it’s the safest place to house the terrorists. Thanks to your support we are making some Democrats think twice about endorsing Obama’s far left agenda. Right now we have to keep the pressure on and continue the fight until we can pass a law that ABSOLUTELY BARS any possibility that terrorist detainees will ever be brought on American soil either for detainment or release!

DON’T LET OBAMA ALLOW GITMO TERRORISTS TO RUN LOOSE IN AMERICA

Make a contribution today to keep our efforts going strong!

Pelosi: Liar, Stupid or Both

There is ONE WORD for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi – LIAR.

Contrary to a whole host of contradicting reports that Pelosi was indeed privy to “waterboarding” as enhanced interrogation techniques – EIT - (Most Republicans). Now that the Obama Administration and most Leftist Democrats have labeled waterboarding as torture, there has been a huge Leftist push to investigate the Bush Administration and the Intelligence Community concerning EIT.

I am willing to bet this Leftist push to fry the Bush Administration for keeping America safe will suddenly cool off. Why? The reason is an actual investigation will prove that Pelosi is a liar. That would mean one of the most powerful persons in America could be subject to a scandal that would do huge damage to the Democratic Party as the so-called Party of change.

As long as Pelosi is adamant that she was too stupid to understand what the of EIT is, I am fairly certain there will be no push from the House leadership in some kind of tawdry investigation of the Bush Administration keeping America safe.

Read the AP article that comes across as sympathetic toward liar – I mean Speaker - Pelosi.

This has all the appearance that Speaker Pelosi is going to take on the CIA. So somebody is lying – either the CIA or Pelosi. Since I never trust a Democrat, I suspect Pelosi is lying. If Pelosi is lying she can say publicly “I want those documents made public” and hope the CIA will not release classified data to protect their position.

If the CIA is lying (which I doubt in this case), then the CIA or Pelosi. Since I never trust a Democrat, I suspect Pelosi is lying. If Pelosi is lying she can say publicly “I want those documents made public” and hope the CIA will not release classified data to protect their position.

If the CIA is lying (which I doubt in this case), then the release of classified document would show Pelosi is not as stupid as she appears.

I am guessing the CIA is doing some research and may pick & choose documents that make the CIA look good and infer that Pelosi is incompetent (or we could say a stupid liar).

She chastised reporters for falling for the Republicans’ political machinations and deflecting attention from their misdeeds. To clear the air, Pelosi said, “I’d be very happy if they released the briefings.”

And that is the only way this matter can be cleared up. A lot of documents should be declassified, including the briefing Pelosi cites. Either the CIA withheld information from Pelosi et al., or Pelosi is now lying. Either way, the briefing should be released.

While they are at it, all of the memos that deal with this topic should be released. Let’s see the intelligence on what al Qaeda was up to and what intelligence, precisely, came out of the interrogations of senior al Qaeda terrorists.

Something tells me that we will hear a response from the CIA shortly. (John McCormick)

Yeah baby, it is doubtful America’s chief spooks is going to allow Pelosi to malign them since there is an appearance the CIA tried to malign President Bush’s effort to invade Iraq.

Keep in mind that if Pelosi is leaning toward stupid rather than liar (I believe she is both), you have to know as Speaker of the House Pelosi is third in line if something horrible happens to the President and Vice President. This makes Pelosi one of the power elite in America. Does America want a stupid and/or liar to have such power?

JRH 5/14/09

Watching MSNBC Is Torture

About a week ago Ann Coulter used her harsh but admirable wit on Leftists concerning the absurdity of comparing torture to what an Islamic terrorist would consider torture in “Coulter - Muslims: 'We Do That On First Dates'".

This week Coulter takes another brilliant shot at Lefties on the topic of American torture in a post entitled, “Watching MSNBC is Torture”.

This is one is as great as the last. You really should read it.

JRH 5/7/09

Are You an Obama Winner? Or an Obama Loser?

Newt Gingrich has written an awesome evaluation about winners and losers in the Obama agenda for America.

To stoke your expectations some of the Gingrich points are: the Tea Party protests, the Chrysler bankruptcy, Cap and Trade, Closing Gitmo and the Obama standard for selecting a Supreme Court Justice.

JRH 5/7/09

MUST READ from Andrew C. McCarthy

Deborah T of the Conservative Social Group AmericaC2C has found a letter that has used snail mail to reach its intended destination. The letter was written by Andrew C. McCarthy to Attorney General Eric Holder.

Evidently McCarthy was invited to some kind of round table by the government which to produce some kind of white paper pertaining to the closing of Gitmo.

The letter from McCarthy was explaining his reasons for declining the invitation. In essence the invitation was declined because McCarthy did not want to be a part of a rubber stamp that already decided to mirror President Barack Hussein Obama’s inclination toward the Gitmo Islamic terrorists.

I say, “Good for McCarthy!”

JRH 5/3/09

Muslims: 'We Do That On First Dates'

O the horror! Ann Coulter’s description of the cruel cruel torture at Gitmo of Islamic terrorists is humorously fantastic.

JRH 5/1/09
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Muslims: 'We Do That On First Dates'

By Ann Coulter
04/29/2009
Human Events

Without any pretense of an argument, which liberals are neurologically incapable of, the mainstream media are now asserting that our wussy interrogation techniques at Guantanamo constituted "torture" and have irreparably harmed America's image abroad.

Only the second of those alleged facts is true: The president's release of the Department of Justice interrogation memos undoubtedly hurt America's image abroad, as we are snickered at in capitals around the world, where they know what real torture is. The Arabs surely view these memos as a pack of lies. What about the pills Americans have to turn us gay?

The techniques used against the most stalwart al-Qaida members, such as Abu Zubaydah, included one terrifying procedure referred to as "the attention grasp." As described in horrifying detail in the Justice Department memo, the "attention grasp" consisted of:

"(G)rasping the individual with both hands, one hand on each side of the collar opening, in a controlled and quick motion. In the same motion as the grasp, the individual is drawn toward the interrogator."

The end.

There are rumors that Dick "Darth Vader" Cheney wanted to take away the interrogators' Altoids before they administered "the grasp," but Department of Justice lawyers deemed this too cruel.

And that's not all! As the torments were gradually increased, next up the interrogation ladder came "walling." This involves pushing the terrorist against a flexible wall, during which his "head and neck are supported with a rolled hood or towel that provides a C-collar effect to prevent whiplash."

People pay to have a lot rougher stuff done to them at Six Flags Great Adventure. Indeed, with plastic walls and soft neck collars, "walling" may be the world's first method of "torture" in which all the implements were made by Fisher-Price.

As the memo darkly notes, walling doesn't cause any pain, but is supposed to induce terror by making a "loud noise": "(T)he false wall is in part constructed to create a loud sound when the individual hits it, which will further shock and surprise." (!!!)

If you need a few minutes to compose yourself after being subjected to that horror, feel free to take a break from reading now. Sometimes a cold compress on the forehead is helpful, but don't let it drip or you might end up waterboarding yourself.

The CIA's interrogation techniques couldn't be more ridiculous if they were out of Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition sketch:

Cardinal! Poke her with the soft cushions! ...
Hmm! She is made of harder stuff! Cardinal Fang! Fetch ... THE COMFY CHAIR!

So you think you are strong because you can survive the soft cushions. Well, we shall see. Biggles! Put her in the Comfy Chair! ...

Now -- you will stay in the Comfy Chair until lunchtime, with only a cup of coffee at 11.

Further up the torture ladder -- from Guantanamo, not Monty Python -- comes the "insult slap," which is designed to be virtually painless, but involves the interrogator invading "the individual's personal space."

If that doesn't work, the interrogator shows up the next day wearing the same outfit as the terrorist. (Awkward.)

I will spare you the gruesome details of the CIA's other comical interrogation techniques and leap directly to the penultimate "torture" in their arsenal: the caterpillar.

In this unspeakable brutality, a harmless caterpillar is placed in the terrorist's cell. Justice Department lawyers expressly denied the interrogators' request to trick the terrorist into believing the caterpillar was a "stinging insect."

Human rights groups have variously described being trapped in a cell with a live caterpillar as "brutal," "soul-wrenching" and, of course, "adorable."

If the terrorist manages to survive the non-stinging caterpillar maneuver -- the most fiendish method of torture ever devised by the human mind that didn't involve being forced to watch "The View" -- CIA interrogators had another sadistic trick up their sleeves.

I am not at liberty to divulge the details, except to mention the procedure's terror-inducing name: "the ladybug."

Finally, the most savage interrogation technique at Guantanamo was "waterboarding," which is only slightly rougher than the Comfy Chair.

Tens of thousands of our troops were waterboarded over the past three decades as part of their training, but not until it was done to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- mastermind of the 9/11 attack on America -- were liberal consciences shocked.

I think they were mostly shocked because they couldn't figure out how Joey Buttafuoco ended up in Guantanamo.

As non-uniformed combatants, all of the detainees at Guantanamo could have been summarily shot on the battlefield under the Laws of War.

Instead, we gave them comfy chairs, free lawyers, better food than is served in Afghani caves, prayer rugs, recreational activities and top-flight medical care -- including one terrorist who was released, whereupon he rejoined the jihad against America, after being fitted for an expensive artificial leg at Guantanamo, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.

Only three terrorists -- who could have been shot -- were waterboarded. This is not nearly as bad as "snowboarding," which is known to cause massive buttocks pain and results in approximately 10 deaths per year.

Normal human beings -- especially those who grew up with my older brother, Jimmy -- can't read the interrogation memos without laughing.

At Al-Jazeera, they don't believe these interrogation memos are for real. Muslims look at them and say: THIS IS ALL THEY'RE DOING? We do that for practice. We do that to our friends.

But The New York Times is populated with people who can't believe they live in a country where people would put a caterpillar in a terrorist's cell.
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Ann Coulter is Legal Affairs Correspondent for HUMAN EVENTS and author of "High Crimes and Misdemeanors," "Slander," ""How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)," "Godless," "If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans" and most recently, Guilty: Liberal "Victims" and their Assault on America.

Copyright © 2009 HUMAN EVENTS. All Rights Reserved.

Pelosi Did Not Disapprove of Torture

An oft reported theme I have put forth is that Democrats lie. There was a time when only the obvious Left wing of the Democrat Party would indulge in political slight of hand and tell a lie for political gain in the hope the Center to Right would acquire a bad public image. The Democrat fringe was in the mold of Senator McGovern. The McGovernite Dems were an electoral laughing stock. That is because the Democrat Party used to be dominated by Center-Right Statesmen in the mold of Senator Scoop Jackson of Washington State. Those Democrats are long gone.

Now that the fringe Left has utterly taken over the Democrat Party America can expect lies for political public enhancement will be the norm rather the exception.

The Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in her minority leadership role was involved in about thirty meetings along with other Republican and Democrat leadership circa 2002. Those meetings explicitly detailed the enhanced interrogation techniques to be used on Islamic terrorists captured shortly after the invasion of Afghanistan.

Nancy Pelosi is the ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives and third in line for the Presidency if a cataclysmic catastrophe occurs to the President and Vice President. This woman of High Government Office has down right lied claiming there was NO detail given in those meetings explaining the nature of enhanced interrogation techniques.

Here is a side thought: Is it not interesting the Obama Administration is bent on calling Islamic terrorists and the Global War on Terror by long drawn out names obfuscating the reality of America’s enemy? Yet the successful methods to extract information from those Islamic terrorists to keep America safe are “torture.” Can you say political agenda?

Pelosi is being busted in public in the deceitful hypocritical lie to protect her Leftist back-side.

Porter J. Goss a former CIA Director is part of an increasing line of individuals calling Pelosi out on her lies.

Many Joe Americans may ask, “What’s the big deal? Politicians lie for gain all the time. What makes Speaker Pelosi’s lie any different?”

The big deal is part of the Democrat Party road to power was decrying the lack of civil rights for non-State terrorist POWs who utilized heinous brutal torture that cost lives prior to their capture. Using the weariness of the Global War on Terror by the American public, the accusation of torture as an American war crime was used to paint a picture of evil of Republicans who believed in winning rather than losing.

Pelosi is in a position of choosing to lie about any knowledge of what enhanced interrogation techniques entailed OR owning up to the truth proving the Democrats lied there way to the American voters’ hearts.

JRH 4/26/09

Administration will pay welfare to terrorists

This should be no surprise now that President Barack Hussein Obama is moving America deeper into a socialistic welfare State in which Latin American illegal immigrants receive benefits that American citizens do not.

The Obama Administration is going to settle some of Gitmo’s anti-American Islamic terrorists in the U.S. of A. and allow them to be on the full package government dole.

JRH 3/29/09

Gitmo and Wishing Islamic Terrorists Away

I support organizations that are anti-jihadi and pro-security in order for American Liberty to be freely practiced. One of many of those organizations is Move America Forward. Many of these anti-Jihadi organizations operate on a grass roots supply budget as opposed to wealthy Leftists as George Soros or Saudi money funneling to anti-American causes.

MAF (as well this blogger) strongly support keeping Gitmo open. Leftist critics look at Gitmo as a civil rights violation of individuals accused of civilian crimes. Of course this is ludicrous for the thugs in Gitmo are transnational terrorists or possessors of information about transnational terrorism in a war that cannot be defined or measured by the Geneva Conventions.

I mention the Geneva Conventions because the signatories of the rules of war as applied to POW’s are in a war with Stateless transnational terrorists who have NOT signed the Conventions nor have any intention of doing so.

In essence transnational terrorists are war criminals which no State can be held accountable because of plausible deniability.

These war criminals are conducting a war which Leftists wish to view as civilian crimes accountable to courts which have different rules of law ranging from Western civil rights to totalitarian dictatorships with the lame United Nations as an arbiter of International Law.

Regardless how the Left tries to alter the state of war radical Islam is waging on the West overtly or clandestinely by utilizing different words to wish the war away, transnational radical Islamic terrorists will be dangerous to Western citizens and the Jews of Israel.

President Barack Hussein Obama has signed the order to close Gitmo. Now the Obama Administration is admitting that some of those Islamic thugs that deserve no American civil rights afforded to accused common criminals will be released on American soil.

Here is the MAF email with the usual request for grass roots donations.

JRH 3/24/09

Europe hedges on Guantánamo detainees

President Obama is all hot to close Gitmo to make the Lefties in America and Europe ecstatic that these poor radical (most of them) Islamic terrorists should be released.

Check it out! The Lefties in Europe are not so hot to be recipients of Gitmo’s dark murderers from Islam.

JRH 3/17/09

BHO, Gitmo and Global Leftists

Helle C. Dale writing for the Heritage Foundation has a brilliant essay concerning President Barack Hussein Obama and Gitmo.

In essence Dale writes about BHO becoming a slave to ‘hear no evil, see no evil, and speak no evil’ Leftists in America and in Europe. (Of course Helle did not use the word “slave” for that might be deemed politically incorrect.)

Helle points out that BHO will receive public acclaim from the global Leftists as long as a released Gitmo inmate (after closing) is involved in a major Islamic Terrorist attack in America or Europe that takes thousands of innocent lives – AGAIN.

My favorite part of the essay is this:

“It is not very clear, though, how much the president is in command of his own policy. During Friday's signing ceremony, Mr. Obama appeared not to know that he would be signing four separate orders and had to refer repeatedly to White House Legal Counsel Greg Craig for answers to questions from the media. Nor was he able to answer a question about the future of the detainees.”

Place a picture of Obama’s public confusion in your mind. Now remember eight years of the Mainstream Media (MSM) nitpicking President Bush about an act judged by the MSM a public gaffe. President Bush was skewered as a political moron by the MSM.

Could it be the Obamasiah is not all knowing and indeed does not know enough to manage his elected Administration? Hmm…

Maybe we could even flash back to the Leftists skewering Sarah Palin for her alleged inexperience even though she had managed the day to day business of an elected Alaskan executive coming to Office despite resistance from the good old boys of the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

I wonder if McCain or Palin would have acted so confused in public on a major issue. O well. I was just wondering.

JRH 1/30/09

What Message is Obama Sending…and to Whom?

I just finished reading an awesome analytical editorial of how Barack Hussein Obama is actually placing Americans at risk by redefining Bush’s methods to keep America terrorist free for a little over the last seven years since 2001.

The place to go is RationalLiberty.com.

JRH 1/27/09

The Fight to Keep Jihadists Locked Up Begins Today

Below is a Move America Forward appeal for funds to lobby against the closing of Gitmo. Personally I sense there are too many Leftists in power to prevent Gitmo’s closing; however I laud Move America Forward for telling why the war criminal prison at Guantanamo Bay should be remain open.

That reason being that valuable intelligence information has been extracted that has aided in keeping American soil free from major Islamic terrorist attacks and intelligence about Islamic terrorist operations in foreign nations like Iraq and Afghanistan.

The thing the Left oriented Mainstream Media fails to inform Americans about is that many have been released from Gitmo and indeed returned to their Islamic enemy combatant ways in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Gitmo should be kept open until Islamic terrorism is resolved in a victory. If that means a life sentence for Gitmo inmates then so be it.

JRH 1/22/09

Obama to Close Gitmo

I firmly believe closing Gitmo and releasing terrorists back to their homelands to rejoin their cadre of Islamic murderers is a huge mistake.

Even the terrorists that are taken through civilian justice rather than military or a special tribunal is flawed thinking.

These terrorists are in essence war criminals and should be tried as such.

And said trials should take place after someone has the cajones to end the Global War on Terror with the goal of all wars – VICTORY.

Melanie Morgan has sent out an email to seek donations against the Leftist agenda of closing Gitmo as well as utilizing an online petition to deliver to the current President-Elect-Barack Hussein Obama.

It is worth posting:

JRH 1/13/09
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OBAMA PLANNING TO SHUT DOWN GITMO FIRST WEEK IN OFFICE
AP REPORTING 2 CLOSE TO OBAMA SAY ORDER MAY COME IN FIRST WEEK OF PRESIDENCY. WE CANNOT ALLOW OBAMA SHUT DOWN GITMO!

Melanie Morgan
Move America Forward
Sent: January 13, 2009

President-elect Barack Obama is likely planning to order the closing of the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay on the same day he is sworn into office, Jan. 20 according to an AP story out today. Some of the estimated 250 terrorists, al-Qaida and Taliban suspects could then end up in America, despite outcry from local residents.

This radical plan is naïve, dangerous to Americans, counter-productive for national security, and insulting to our troops at Gitmo who exhibit perfect professionalism. We won’t take it lying down.

GITMO PETITION

MOVE AMERICA FORWARD CONTRIBUTION

Obama should not even consider closing down the prison until he personally visits and meets the brave men and women who work there. They serve with honor and dedication, despite what the mainstream media have said about them. Obama hasn’t even taken the time to send an aide or staffer to see the facilities firsthand.

The only reason for closing Gitmo is to make leftists and some European countries feel better. They have fallen for the tripe that liberals and their cohorts in the media have spread about our troops and the facility. That and they may just truly hate America.

Well I have seen firsthand the conditions in which these dangerous men live. They live in a climate-controlled, state-of-the-art prison with floors clean enough to eat off of. They watch movies while relaxing on an overstuffed sofa; they have six meal plans from which to choose what they eat; they are called to prayer five times a day as proscribed in their Muslim faith; they have three medical personnel for EACH terrorist.

And let’s not forget: Not one American has been charged with a crime for the handling of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. There’s nothing to suggest that anything approaching a crime has taken place there. We know that our military brings to justice those who break the law within their ranks. So, if something happened that was so bad in Gitmo, why hasn’t anybody been charged? Because NO LAWS WERE BROKEN!

I am outraged at the lies that have been spread about Gitmo and the work of our troops. If Obama foolishly chooses to close Gitmo and ship radical jihadists to America, he is saying that our troops haven’t done their jobs, or worse, that they’ve committed atrocities. That’s outrageous, but it seems that to him the feelings of left-wingers mean more than America’s safety or the honor of our military.

The radicals are already pushing Obama to free an alleged terrorist who killed an American soldier and engaged in other terrorist acts.

Groups on Monday sent a letter to Obama asking him to drop charges against Omar Khadr, who allegedly killed a soldier and committed material support for terrorism and espionage. If Obama won’t suspend the military commissions and drop the charges, these groups want him to send Khadr to Canada for rehabilitation. How do you intend to rehab an alleged terrorist who killed an American soldier?

We must stop this nonsense and send a clear message to Obama: Keep Americans safe from terrorists by holding them at Gitmo. Move America Forward is leading the charge against the radicals’ agenda to bring terrorists to America and near our homes.

All presidents during war time have held enemy combatants in prisons and camps until the war ended. President Abraham Lincoln held as many as 18,000 suspected Confederate sympathizers and tried enemy combatants throughout the Civil War.

Obama must not be allowed to play along with the slanders against our troops. We Americans must stand up now and tell him to cut the nuttiness before it’s too late.