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14. I am really not in favor of this appointment. n/t

Thu Feb 7, 2013, 06:23 PM

Feb 2013

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Brennan is referring to torture as "mistakes" we (CIA) made. [View all] Solly Mack Feb 2013 OP

Give him a break? For being too cowardly to call torture torture? Solly Mack Feb 2013 #2

A break like don't jail him, or a break like make him CIA head? cthulu2016 Feb 2013 #3

I watched it as well Floyd_Gondolli Feb 2013 #10

Or 1942 kenny blankenship Feb 2013 #12

Seems like somebody or another brought that point up in Nuremberg. Octafish Feb 2013 #19

So technically it was worse than a clerical error jsr Feb 2013 #6

Technically. I make mistakes all the time. Solly Mack Feb 2013 #8

Mistakes were made... TwilightGardener Feb 2013 #7

Exactly the same. Solly Mack Feb 2013 #9

The skunk doesn't change his stripes kenny blankenship Feb 2013 #11

+1 forestpath Feb 2013 #13

I am really not in favor of this appointment. n/t Blue_In_AK Feb 2013 #14

I'm not either. He'll be confirmed though. Solly Mack Feb 2013 #15

Great...now the committee is making water-boarding jokes. Solly Mack Feb 2013 #16

How is he not in front of the ICC? What is this chilling charade? n/t Catherina Feb 2013 #20

The United States is not a participant. Solly Mack Feb 2013 #21

The ICC should pick them up wherever the are Catherina Feb 2013 #22

I am also tormented by it. Solly Mack Feb 2013 #23

He sure was "weak" in his answer about Waterboarding as Torture! KoKo Feb 2013 #24

Thank you for adding that! Solly Mack Feb 2013 #25