Tag Archive | "Gitmo"

Stephen F. Hayes: Obama’s intelligence chief admits the value of tough interrogations

Published Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 9:34 am

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Admiral Dennis Blair, the top intelligence official in the United States, thanks to his nomination by Barack Obama, believes that the coercive interrogation methods outlawed by his boss produced “high-value information” and gave the U.S. government a “deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country.” He included those assessments in a [...]

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Andrew C. McCarthy: Obama’s Third Way: Release the Terrorists

Published Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 12:14 pm

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Let’s imagine we’ve captured a highly trained terrorist al-Qaeda was attempting to embed in the United States, à la Mohamed Atta and company, to carry out mass-murder attacks in American cities. For eight years, our national-security debate in the United States has been divided into two camps on these cases. In the first are those [...]

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The Age: At least 30 former Guantanamo Bay detainees have been killed or recaptured after taking up arms against allied forces following their release

Published Sunday, July 29, 2007 at 12:33 pm

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They have been discovered mostly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but not in Iraq, a US Defence Department spokesman told The Age yesterday. Commander Jeffrey Gordon said the detainees had, while in custody, falsely claimed to be farmers, truck drivers, cooks, small-arms merchants, low-level combatants or had offered other false explanations for being in Afghanistan. “We [...]

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