Obama, Bush teams battle over torture report

http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2014/12/09/obama-bush-senate-torture-report-dick-cheney/20129507/


Supporters of two very different presidents — Barack Obama and George W. Bush — are bracing for battle over Tuesday's report on what Obama backers call "torture" and what Bush backers call "enhanced interrogation techniques."

While Obama and aides support release of the report as to way to prevent future abuses, some Bush administration officials call it partisan second-guessing of techniques that proved necessary during the war on terrorism.

"What I keep hearing out there is they portray this as a rogue operation and the agency was way out of bounds and then they lied about it," former vice president Dick Cheney told The New York Times. "I think that's all a bunch of hooey. The program was authorized. The agency did not want to proceed without authorization, and it was also reviewed legally by the Justice Department before they undertook the program."

"The president, on his first or second day in office, took the steps using executive action to put an end to the tactics that are described in the report," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest. "The president believes that, on principle, it's important to release that report so that people around the world and people here at home understand exactly what transpired."


"We're fortunate to have men and women who work hard at the CIA serving on our behalf," Bush said. "These are patriots, and whatever the report says — if it diminishes their contributions to our country, it is way off-base. I knew the directors, I knew the deputy directors, I knew a lot of the operators. These are good people, really good people, and we're lucky as a nation to have them."








As I posted yesterday the W team will attack the patriotism of anyone who dares to question them
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025928007