Bush White House Was Worried Colin Powell Would ‘Blow His Stack’ If Briefed on Tortur

[Cigar]

Bush White House Was Worried Colin Powell Would ‘Blow His Stack’ If Briefed on Torture
The Bush White House didn’t brief then-Secretary of State Colin Powell about the specifics of the CIA's interrogation program until September 2003 because it was worried Powell would “blow his stack” if he found out what was going on, according to the report released Tuesday by the Senate Intelligence Committee.

According to a July 2003 email, the official reason the National Security Council didn’t have a full briefing on the program at that time was to “avoid press disclosures.” But unofficially, the email said, "it is clear to us from some of the runup meetings we had with counsel that the is extremely concerned Powell would blow his stack if he were to be briefed on what’s been going on."

National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice decided later that Powell, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, should in fact be briefed on the program. Both were briefed for 25 minutes on Sept. 16, 2003. The CIA started using what it called “enhanced interrogation” tactics in 2002.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-12-09/bush-white-house-was-worried-colin-powell-would-blow-his-stack-if-briefed-on-torture

[silvereyes]

I'd love to see Powell lose it. That would be epic !

[momsapplepie]

According to Congressman Peter Hoekstra, Congress was briefed on all of the enhanced interrogation techniques that were outlined in the memos from 2002 through 2009.
On May 26, 2002, Feinstein was quoted in the New York Times saying that the attacks of 9/11 were a real awakening and that it would no longer be "business as usual." The attacks, she said, let us know "that the threat is profound" and "that we have to do some things that historically we have not wanted to do to protect ourselves."
Jose Rodrigues, a top official leading the nation's post-9/11 interrogation regime, calls the Democrats liars. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/todays-cia-critics-once-urged-the-agency-to-do-anything-to-fight-al-qaeda/2014/12/05/ac418da2-7bda-11e4-84d4-7c896b90abdc_story.html)
"The leaders of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees and of both parties in Congress were briefed on the program more than 40 times between 2002 and 2009. But Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tried to deny that she was told in 2002 that detainees had been waterboarded. That is simply not true. I was among those who briefed her."

So, believing the lying scum democrats who were for it before they were against it? Yeah, Stupid is as Stupid does.

[Cigar]

According to Congressman Peter Hoekstra, Congress was briefed on all of the enhanced interrogation techniques that were outlined in the memos from 2002 through 2009.
On May 26, 2002, Feinstein was quoted in the New York Times saying that the attacks of 9/11 were a real awakening and that it would no longer be "business as usual." The attacks, she said, let us know "that the threat is profound" and "that we have to do some things that historically we have not wanted to do to protect ourselves."
Jose Rodrigues, a top official leading the nation's post-9/11 interrogation regime, calls the Democrats liars. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/todays-cia-critics-once-urged-the-agency-to-do-anything-to-fight-al-qaeda/2014/12/05/ac418da2-7bda-11e4-84d4-7c896b90abdc_story.html)
"The leaders of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees and of both parties in Congress were briefed on the program more than 40 times between 2002 and 2009. But Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) tried to deny that she was told in 2002 that detainees had been waterboarded. That is simply not true. I was among those who briefed her."

So, believing the lying scum democrats who were for it before they were against it? Yeah, Stupid is as Stupid does.

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[momsapplepie]

Franfenfien is nothing but lying scum. She KNEW about the interrogation techniques. This whole thing is nothing but a diversion from all the crap that obumbles has screwed up recently from trying to start a race war, to allowing an invasion, to the illegality of federal subsidies for obamacare. It's all coming down in these last two years of the obumbles regime.

[Peter1469]

I suspect he would. The military (he was a product of the Army) has always stayed away from endorsing those tactics for interrogation (speaking of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan).