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Triana

(22,666 posts)
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 10:50 PM Dec 2014

George Tenet in 2007: "We don't torture people"

"We don't torture people," former CIA director George Tenet told Scott Pelley in 2007, and today Tenet is again defending the agency's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" after the release of a Senate Intelligence Committee report.

The Senate report details the CIA's use of interrogation methods including waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and death threats. Here's what Tenet told Scott about these techniques back in 2007:

George Tenet: You know, the image that's been portrayed is we sat around the campfire and said, 'Oh, boy, now we go get to torture people.' We don't torture people. Let me say that again to you, we don't torture people. OK? So...

Scott Pelley: Come on, George.


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George Tenet in 2007: "We don't torture people" (Original Post) Triana Dec 2014 OP
We do forced rectal feedings, waterboardings, sleep deprivations, humiliations, etc...no torture. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #1

Fred Sanders

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1. We do forced rectal feedings, waterboardings, sleep deprivations, humiliations, etc...no torture.
Tue Dec 9, 2014, 11:08 PM
Dec 2014

Not to mention kidnappings and dumping in foreign lands, and indefinite imprisonment without due process.

But not the T word....never.

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