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The current policy traces its roots to the administration of former President Bill Clinton. Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, however, what had been a limited program expanded dramatically, with some experts estimating that 150 foreign nationals have been victims of rendition in the last few years alone. Foreign nationals suspected of terrorism have been transported to detention and interrogation facilities in Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Diego Garcia, Afghanistan, Guantánamo, and elsewhere. In the words of former CIA agent Robert Baer: "If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan. If you want them to be tortured, you send them to Syria. If you want someone to disappear -- never to see them again -- you send them to Egypt

Cap'n Cat wrote:It's starting!!!

Cap'n Cat wrote:It's starting!!!

Baldy wrote:And the good part about releasing this so-called report is.....


Just another dumb Donk move.

Grizalltheway wrote:

Baldy wrote:And the good part about releasing this so-called report is.....


Just another dumb Donk move.

Still smarting over the Benghazi dud, I see.

Baldy wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:
Still smarting over the Benghazi dud, I see.

Grizalltheway wrote:

Baldy wrote:And the good part about releasing this so-called report is.....


Just another dumb Donk move.

Still smarting over the Benghazi dud, I see.

andy7171 wrote:

Baldy wrote:

He's happy that no one is being held accountable for the 4 americans killed. You know, because he is against the people that do.

Pwns wrote:Sanctimonious intelligence committee donks release this report and talk about the American way….

While at the same time enabling NSA spying.

Cap'n Cat wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:
Still smarting over the Benghazi dud, I see.

D1B wrote:

Cap'n Cat wrote:

Benghazi = Baldy's new WMD's in Iraq

The soldiers at the blast crater sensed something was wrong.

It was August 2008 near Taji, Iraq. They had just exploded a stack of old Iraqi artillery shells buried beside a murky lake. The blast, part of an effort to destroy munitions that could be used in makeshift bombs, uncovered more shells.

Two technicians assigned to dispose of munitions stepped into the hole. Lake water seeped in. One of them, Specialist Andrew T. Goldman, noticed a pungent odor, something, he said, he had never smelled before.

He lifted a shell. Oily paste oozed from a crack. “That doesn’t look like pond water,” said his team leader, Staff Sgt. Eric J. Duling.

The specialist swabbed the shell with chemical detection paper. It turned red — indicating sulfur mustard, the chemical warfare agent designed to burn a victim’s airway, skin and eyes.

All three men recall an awkward pause. Then Sergeant Duling gave an order: “Get the hell out.”

Five years after President George W. Bush sent troops into Iraq, these soldiers had entered an expansive but largely secret chapter of America’s long and bitter involvement in Iraq.

From 2004 to 2011, American and American-trained Iraqi troops repeatedly encountered, and on at least six occasions were wounded by, chemical weapons remaining from years earlier in Saddam Hussein’s rule.

In all, American troops secretly reported finding roughly 5,000 chemical warheads, shells or aviation bombs, according to interviews with dozens of participants, Iraqi and American officials, and heavily redacted intelligence documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

The United States had gone to war declaring it must destroy an active weapons of mass destruction program. Instead, American troops gradually found and ultimately suffered from the remnants of long-abandoned programs, built in close collaboration with the West.

The New York Times found 17 American service members and seven Iraqi police officers who were exposed to nerve or mustard agents after 2003. American officials said that the actual tally of exposed troops was slightly higher, but that the government’s official count was classified.

The secrecy fit a pattern. Since the outset of the war, the scale of the United States’ encounters with chemical weapons in Iraq was neither publicly shared nor widely circulated within the military. These encounters carry worrisome implications now that the Islamic State, a Qaeda splinter group, controls much of the territory where the weapons were found.

The United States had gone to war declaring it must destroy an active weapons of mass destruction program. Instead, American troops gradually found and ultimately suffered from the remnants of long-abandoned programs, built in close collaboration with the West.

In case after case, participants said, analysis of these warheads and shells reaffirmed intelligence failures. First, the American government did not find what it had been looking for at the war’s outset, then it failed to prepare its troops and medical corps for the aged weapons it did find.

Others pointed to another embarrassment. In five of six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to have been designed in the United States, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies.

ASUG8 wrote:

Cap'n Cat wrote:It's starting!!!

Fair and balanced, Cappy. Slick Willy started it, Dubya expanded it post 9/11, and Obama is trying to end it. Both sides admit there will be repercussions from this release.

Heck, I even used an aclu link to pacify you.

Grizalltheway wrote:All that article really does is confirm what idiotic failures your boy W. and his crew were...

The United States had gone to war declaring it must destroy an active weapons of mass destruction program. Instead, American troops gradually found and ultimately suffered from the remnants of long-abandoned programs, built in close collaboration with the West.

In case after case, participants said, analysis of these warheads and shells reaffirmed intelligence failures. First, the American government did not find what it had been looking for at the war’s outset, then it failed to prepare its troops and medical corps for the aged weapons it did find.

Others pointed to another embarrassment. In five of six incidents in which troops were wounded by chemical agents, the munitions appeared to have been designed in the United States, manufactured in Europe and filled in chemical agent production lines built in Iraq by Western companies.

Baldy wrote: No shit, Bieber. It is a NYT article after all.

You were still suckin' mom's tit when this was happening, let the adults talk here.
When the conversation turns to skinny jeans and feminine hygiene products, we'll be sure to get your input.
Capiche?

Chizzang wrote:

Baldy wrote: No shit, Bieber. It is a NYT article after all.

You were still suckin' mom's tit when this was happening, let the adults talk here.
When the conversation turns to skinny jeans and feminine hygiene products, we'll be sure to get your input.
Capiche?

This ^ is accurate...

Rob Iola wrote:When does the Senate follow up with the report on the widespread killings caused by drone attacks, including collateral damage?

Baldy wrote:

Rob Iola wrote:When does the Senate follow up with the report on the widespread killings caused by drone attacks, including collateral damage?

It's scheduled for the 2nd Monday of next week. Right after the Senate report from the IRS targeting probe.