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GOP wants probe of who leaked fact we run torture prisons
"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... Harry Krause wrote: Only the Republicans could come up with something as nefarious as this gem: GOP leaders urge probe into secret prisons leak WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Republican congressional leaders said Tuesday they are asking committees to investigate the possible leak of classified information about secret U.S. prisons for suspected terrorists overseas. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert said the disclosure, first reported last week in The Washington Post, could damage national security. Hastert, R-Illinois, and Frist, R-Tennessee, said they've asked the chairmen of the House and Senate intelligence committees to look into the origin of the disclosure. "If accurate, such an egregious disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences, and will imperil our efforts to protect the American people and our homeland from terrorist attacks," the lawmakers wrote in a letter requesting the investigation. The Post reported Wednesday that top al Qaeda suspects were being held for questioning "at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe" and other locations around the world. (Full story) Critics said the arrangement suggests U.S. agents are engaged in activities that would be illegal under American law. Top U.S. officials declined to confirm or deny the report but insisted that all prisoners are being treated humanely. President Bush, while in Panama on Monday, said flatly, "We do not torture." The GOP move comes a day after Democrats called for an independent investigation into the treatment of prisoners in American custody. (Full story) Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, said the announcement was "just for show," meant to divert attention from the fact that Republicans never conducted a congressional probe of the 2003 leak of a CIA agent's identity. That disclosure led to an investigation and eventually the October 28 indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. Libby was charged with obstruction of justice, perjury and making false statements to federal agents investigating who revealed the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Plame's husband, former diplomat Joseph Wilson, had publicly challenged a key element of the Bush administration's case for the 2003 invasion of Iraq -- that Baghdad had sought to purchase uranium from Africa for a clandestine nuclear weapons program. CNN's Ed Henry and Ted Barrett contributed to this report. Find this article at: http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/...obe/index.html ---------------------------- I love this quote: "If accurate, such an egregious disclosure could have long-term and far-reaching damaging and dangerous consequences, and will imperil our efforts to protect the American people and our homeland from terrorist attacks," the lawmakers wrote in a letter requesting the investigation. Really? You mean if it got out the US is operating secret prisons overseas, it might further damage our already tanked reputation as the moral leader of the world? Naw. Now, why would you want a secret prison? Why, to torture the prisoner secretly, of course. THIS is going to be a scandal with legs. Not the disclosure, but the fact that these torture cells exist. Update from a CNN broadcast: Republican US Senator Trent Lott says he suspects a fellow Republican US Senator leaked the info to the Washington Post. He says the Administration gave the information about the secret torture prisons only to the GOP. That is an interesting revelation...the Bush Administration is giving up to date intel only to one side? "THIS" has the earmarks of a first-rate scandal. Love it. Hogwash. Rockefeller knew about them more than 3 years ago. |
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