RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events Bush threatens to veto anti-torture bill

It's rational because Democrats are the ones releasing the information, endangering our CIA agents, their informants, our soldiers and U.S. citizens worldwide!

The "enhanced interrogations" were ended completely about 7 years ago, so it serves no purpose at this point to expose what happened, except for Democrat political posturing. And even the Democrats in the Senate and House intelligence committees, for years have been leaking our greatest secrets to the New York Times and other sources.
You have a very selective interpretation of what the CIA says about information obtained from enhanced interrogation (and again, there was a total of THREE interrogated that way under Bush, and even those three very selectively, based on the fact they were anticipating another imminent attack, and therefore a greater urgency to get information quickly.

In the case of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and his courier, that led to killing Bin Ladin, they did get information from enhanced interrogation that allowed them to finally locate and assassinate him. I've seen interviews with Col. Tony Schaffer and Jose Rodriguez, to name just two I can think of offhand.



AGAIN: the Senate Democrats in releasing their report NEVER spoke to ANY actual CIA agents who were involved in enhanced interrogation, to insure they could deceitfully spin the interrogations in the selective context they wanted. Vs. the reality of what actually happened. I have not seen one CIA agent say the interrogations were not effective.

These are the same Democrats who wanted to de-fund our troops on the battlefield in Iraq, who (Sen Dick Durbin) called our troops comparable to "Nazi storm troopers, Siviet gulags and the Pol Pot regime" (and then retracted and apologized for the remark, and a week later denied he even said it and was "misinterpreted".)
The same Democrats who prematurely pulled all our troops out of Iraq in 2011, and lost all the gains made there. The same Democrats who, despite the example in Iraq, are about to do the same in Afghanistan.
The same Democrats who leaked all the details of the Bin Ladin raid and endangered Seal Team 6 for their own political gain, to the point that Defense Secretary Robert Gates told them to "Shut the fuck up!"
The same Democrats who betrayed Israel and leaked in advance their plans to do air raids on Iran nuclear facilities from airfields in Azerbaijan, forcing Israel to abandon the raids. The same Democrats that have refused to do anything to prevent Iran from obtaining nukes.
The same Democrats that have collapsed U.S. influence in the Mid East, and have betrayed our allies with released intelligence that countries like Saudi Arabia now do raids on Libya without informing the U.S. in advance.

Over the last 7 years, it is hard to think of an example where Democrat actions have not alienated our allies, while giving dangerous concessions to countries like Iran, Russia and China, while receiving nothing in return. It is not lightly that I use the word "treasonous" to describe Democrats. Their first impulse is to give away any U.S. diplomatic and military advantage, trash those who risk their lives to defend us, and hold the U.S. at every turn to a standard they don't hold any other nations to.

That's not even getting into Democrats' push for open borders and amnesty, and their literally applauding in the White House garden for a Mexican president who attacked U.S. immigration policy as "racist" (ignoring of course, how brutally Mexico treats its own illegals, and how humanely the U.S. treats Mexican illegals.
The Democrats undermine and endanger U.S. national security, in virtually every way possible.