take a look at this pompous shit...

[spanone]

who the fuck are these people?

Ex-CIA chief: Obama risks national security

A former head of the CIA slammed President Obama on Sunday for releasing four Bush-era memos, saying the new president has compromised national security.Michael Hayden, who served as former President Bush's last CIA director from 2006 to 2009, said releasing the memos outlining terror interrogation methods emboldened terrorist groups such as al Qaeda.

"What we have described for our enemies in the midst of a war are the outer limits that any American would ever go to in terms of interrogating an al Qaeda terrorist. That's very valuable information," Hayden said during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday."

"By taking techniques off the table, we have made it more difficult -- in a whole host of circumstances I can imagine -- for CIA officers to defend the nation," he said.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/19/cia.torture.chief/index.html

[The Straight Story]

1. Damn, by the headline I thought you were linking to one of my OPs

:rofl:

[Warpy]

2. The pusbag is just afraid he's going to get caught

and wind up in prison.

He needs to wind up in prison. They all do.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

22. JUST ANOTHER BOUGHT ADMIRAL

[14thColony]

26. Bought General in this case

Mike Hayden was a USAF general.

[annabanana]

3. He lo-o-o-oves that torture, he does..n/t

[bluesbassman]

4. If we are in the midst of a war, why aren't we following the Geneva Convention?

"What we have described for our enemies in the midst of a war are the outer limits that any American would ever go to in terms of interrogating an al Qaeda terrorist. That's very valuable information," Hayden said during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday.

Figures this rant would be televised on Faux.

[Poiuyt]

14. The Geneva Convention? Oh how quaint!

[Control-Z]

16. That is the first logical

question that comes to mind. And if we were (following the Geneva Conventions), there would be no secrets revealed.

edit: to fix sloppy typing.

[liberalmuse]

5. Why do all the Bushies have that same, arrogant smug expression?

My primal instincts take over when I see them, and I wish I were that savage, flesh eating animal again.

[NutmegYankee]

6. I had the same thought.

This bastard should have been arrested right on stage and frogmarched to an appropriate facility for a little of his own "enhanced interrogation" techniques before standing trial for human rights violations.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Figures - this Elmer Fudd look-alike would spew on Fox News

Perfect fit.

[stillcool]

8. Next up Cheney?

boy would I love to be a fly on the wall inside the Pentagon.

[LynnTheDem]

9. "by taking TORTURE off the table...". Yes Hayden, it was and is TORTURE.

The identical TORTURE America has executed people for.

[tnlefty]

10. The torture condoning soul less asshats that want

the President to fail!

[bluestateguy]

11. I will not tolerate smearing of the commander in chief in a time of war

Not now, not ever.

It undermines our troops in the field and denigrates their morale when people second guess their commander in chief.

[MrMickeysMom]

12. Isn't this the same fucktard who doesn't know the 4th amendment?

He's a wire-tapping, little turd that got flushed out of the Pennsylvania.

This supports why we need to break up the CIA in a thousand little pieces.

[RagAss]

13. Behold the final foul smelling farts of an era gone by. !

[spanone]

15. you work for us asshole and we say no torture....again, who the fuck are these people?

immoral sons of bitches

inhumane sons of bitches

[malaise]

17. They're scared

shitless. I'm lovin it.
I wonder who among them will commit suicide first. Cheney may pull out his battery.

[Wednesdays]

25. Or suddenly "die" a la William Casey or Ken Lay

Those CIA boys and Repukes with connections definitely know how to "die" at convenient times.

[bemildred]

18. Right, human rights and the Geneva Conventions are just recommendations. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Mr Hayden is actually afraid that universal jurisdiction he might

find himself in the dockett

So to a point he has a small point...

And you know what Mr. Hayden? I hope you do find yourself on the docket, preferably in a US court, but since we are refusing to do that....

Somebody else will

[Cronus Protagonist]

20. He's a victim of fetal alcohol syndrome

He'd be more suited to working as a taxi driver.

[flyarm]

21. Michael Hayden said something that confused me today on Fox News by emptywheel..

please do read the comments..

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/04/19/is-there-a-2003-waterboarding-memo-were-missing/

Is There a 2003 Waterboarding Memo We’re Missing?
By: emptywheel Sunday April 19, 2009 1:18 pm

Michael Hayden said something that confused me today on Fox News. When asked whether he thought waterboarding is torture, he replied simply that DOJ had said it was not.

Question: Are you satisfied that waterboarding is not torture?

HAYDEN: I’m satisfied that the Justice Department, in a series of opinions -- ‘02, ‘03, ‘05 -- said that it was not. Now...

See, we know that DOJ addressed waterboarding specifically in 2002 and 2005 in the memos released last week.

But 2003?

Yes, there is one I, at least, have forgotten. The one in which the White House signed off on waterboarding, even after they had waterboarded KSM 183 times in a month.

6/XX/03
White House
CIA
Interrogation of prisoners

Here's the WaPo's description of this 2003 memo, from last year when we were all trying to elect Barack Obama President.

[Touchdown]

23. He looks like a fat Kurtwood Smith. "DUMB ASS!"

No offense to Smith.

Like from Robocop...

[roody]

24. Our enemies already know all this.