[antimedia] antimedia: You really have to wonder....

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You really have to wonder....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1177563549.shtml


   ....when the Democrat's [1]house of cards will collapse around them.

     As European parliament members scolded their American hosts at a
     congressional hearing today on the CIA's "extraordinary terrorist
     rendition" program, former CIA official Michael Scheuer blasted
     European governments, the press, and the Clinton administration for
     "lies" about a counterterrorism program he says he personally
     authored in the mid-1990s.
     Members of a European parliamentary special commission testified
     for the first time in Congress today about their 16-month
     investigation into CIA covert operations on European soil, and
     alleged that some 1,254 previously secret CIA flights may have been
     involved in conveying al-Qaida terror suspects to alleged "secret
     prisons" in Europe and elsewhere.
     Several European governments have initiated legal proceedings
     against members of the CIA teams involved in the renditions. A
     court in Milan, Italy, has issued arrest warrants for 16 alleged
     CIA officers. All of the suspects except one, Robert Seldon Lady,
     who is now retired, were identified by pseudonyms in those court
     cases.
     The Washington Post reported on Tuesday that CIA Director Michael
     V. Hayden has jawboned several European diplomats over their
     handling of the rendition-related court cases, and informed them
     that "fewer than 100 people had been held in secret 'black site'
     facilities since the spring of 2002."
     But Scheuer's no-holds-barred testimony provides for the first time
     an inside glimpse into what previously was one of the CIA's most
     closely-guarded secrets. The CIA Renditions program was set up in
     the late summer of 1995, in order to "take men off the street who
     were planning or had been involved in attacks on the United States
     or its allies," Scheuer said. "I authored it, and then ran and
     managed it . . . until June 1999," he added.
     Initially, the CIA never interrogated the terror suspects, but
     "rendered" them to their home countries where they were wanted for
     terror-related crimes.
     The CIA "warned the president and the National Security Council
     that the U.S. State Department had and would identify the countries
     to which the captured fighters were being delivered as human rights
     abusers," Scheuer said.
     "I have read and been told that Mr. Clinton, Mr. Berger, and Mr.
     Clarke have said since 9/11 that they insisted that each receiving
     country treat the rendered person it received according to U.S.
     legal standards. To the best of my memory, that is a lie," he said.
     Samuel (Sandy) Berger was national security advisor and Richard
     Clarke was the counter-terrorism "czar" at the Clinton White House
     when Scheuer was running the program.

   My, oh my. Who knew. (The Democrats did.)
   Harry Reid lies through his teeth about WMD in Iraq, Al Qaeda in Iraq,
   etc., etc., acting as if America had absolutely no reason or
   justification for entering Iraq, castigating the Vice President for
   continuing to insist on telling the truth. Goodness how [2]they have
   changed their tune.

     Harry Reid
     Senate Democratic Leader
     CNN âInside Politicsâ â September 18, 2002
     âSaddam Hussein, In Effect, Has Thumbed His Nose At The World
     Community. And I Think That The President's Approaching This In The
     Right Fashion.â

   And then [3]there's this on the eve of war. (Be sure to read all the
   quotes on that page and share them with your liberal friends.)

     "We stopped the fighting [in 1991] on an agreement that Iraq would
     take steps to assure the world that it would not engage in further
     aggression and that it would destroy its weapons of mass
     destruction. It has refused to take those steps. That refusal
     constitutes a breach of the armistice which renders it void and
     justifies resumption of the armed conflict."
     Senator Harry Reid (Democrat, Nevada)
     Addressing the US Senate
     October 9, 2002
     Congressional Record, p. S10145
     http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getpage.cgi?position=all&pa
     ge=S10145&dbname=2002_record

   Then Harry Reid thought he could gain political advantage by
   supporting the war.
   Now Harry thinks he can gain political advantage by lying and
   embarrassing America in front of the world. He apparently could care
   less if he destroys the country in the process. In the Hall of Shame
   he goes.

References

   1. http://www.globaldefensegroup.com/terrorism/former-cia-official-blasts-clinton-press-europeans-on-secret-pr.html?Itemid=93
   2. http://www.gop.com/Multimedia/MediaPlayer.aspx?ID=1035&TypeID=2
   3. http://www.freedomagenda.com/iraq/wmd_quotes.html