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he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.” ~ Jesus
he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.” ~ Jesus
Luke 12:39
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Rubio, GOP: Release of CIA Report
‘Reckless and Irresponsible’
Newsmax — The CIA used sexual threats, waterboarding and other harsh methods to interrogate terrorism suspects and all were ineffective at eliciting critical information, according to a U.S. Senate report due to be released on Tuesday.The report on government-sanctioned interrogation at sites around the world for questioning captured al Qaeda and other militants prompted the United States to warn its facilities abroad to shore up security in case of violent reactions.
Sources familiar with the document said it includes graphic details about techniques the Central Intelligence Agency used in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.
The sources said tactics meant to force detainees to divulge information on terrorist plots and cells went beyond the techniques authorized by White House, CIA and lawyers working for President George W. Bush's Justice Department.
Cases in which CIA interrogators threatened one or more detainees with mock executions, a practice never authorized by Bush administration lawyers, are documented in the report, the sources said.
It concludes that harsh interrogations did not produce a single critical intelligence nugget that could not have been obtained by non-coercive means. Former CIA and government leaders, including former U.S. vice president Dick Cheney, dispute that conclusion.
The report describes how al Qaeda operative Abdel Rahman al Nashiri, suspected mastermind of the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, was threatened with a buzzing power drill, the sources said. The drill was never actually used on him.
It documents how at least one detainee was sexually threatened with a broomstick, the sources said.
It was unclear whether the report would lead to further attempts to hold those involved accountable. The legal statute of limitations has passed for many of the actions.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said on Monday that President Barack Obama supported making the document public "so that people around the world and people here at home understand exactly what transpired."
The executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Anthony Romero, said in an opinion piece in The New York Times that Obama should issue formal pardons to senior officials and others to make clear that these actions were crimes and help ensure that "the American government never tortures again."
ADDED SECURITY
Preparing for a worldwide outcry from the publication of the graphic details, the White House and U.S. intelligence officials said on Monday they had beefed up security of U.S. facilities worldwide.
The report, which took years to produce, charts the history of the CIA's "Rendition, Detention and Interrogation" program, which President Bush authorized after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Bush ended many aspects of the program before leaving office, and Obama swiftly banned "enhanced interrogation techniques," which critics say are torture, after his 2009 inauguration.
Two Republican lawmakers issued a statement calling the release of the report "reckless and irresponsible." Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Intelligence Committee, is due to make the report public in a Senate floor speech.
"We are concerned that this release could endanger the lives of Americans overseas, jeopardize U.S. relations with foreign partners, potentially incite violence, create political problems for our allies, and be used as a recruitment tool for our enemies," senators Marco Rubio and Jim Risch said.
Senator Angus King, an independent, told CNN releasing the report was important because it could persuade a future president not to use these techniques.
"We did things that we tried Japanese soldiers for war crimes for after World War Two. This is not America. This is not who we are. What was done has diminished our stature and inflamed terrorists around the world."
"Did we torture people? Yes. Did it work. No," King said.
The 500-plus page report that the Intelligence Committee has prepared for release, a summary of a much more detailed, 6,000-page narrative which will remain secret, includes a 200-page narrative of the interrogation program's history and 20 case studies of the interrogations of specific detainees.
Intelligence Committee Democrats were expected to post the report on the panel's website on Tuesday, along with lengthy critiques of it by committee Republicans and the CIA.
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SHOCK: What Was Just Reported About ISIS Atrocities
Shows Their Barbarism Knows No Limits
Shows Their Barbarism Knows No Limits
...in a Christian enclave near Baghdad...
By Norvell Rose, Western Journalism — News reports on the unspeakable evils of ISIS are nothing new. But what has just been revealed by a reliable source with intimate knowledge of terrorism in Iraq still shocks the senses. Four children — all under the age of 15 — told their ISIS captors they loved “Yesua,” which means Jesus. They did not back down in the face of ISIS threats, refusing to deny their Christian faith and promise to follow Mohammed. That’s when ISIS murderers chopped their heads off....The Savage Nation
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The Savage Nation Previews ‘Southside With You’:
An Obama Love Story
An Obama Love Story
Thought I would take a shot at this- all credit for the audio goes to Jim, Savage’s producer..just thought I would put a little video to it. Enjoy! From the December 8, 2014 edition of “The Savage Nation”- Michael Savage prevews ‘Southside With You’: An Obama Love Story starring Barack and Michelle Obama- Coming to a theater near you.
Warning! ‘The Savage Nation’ Contains Adult Language, Adult
Content, Psychological Nudity. Listener Discretion Is Advised.
Content, Psychological Nudity. Listener Discretion Is Advised.
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New Tape Reveals Jonathan Gruber Admitting
Obama Lied About Obamacare Cost Savings
Obama Lied About Obamacare Cost Savings
By Matthew Burke, TPNN — As Jonathan Gruber, the Obamacare architect who admitted that the law was a scheme to deceive, who also referred to on multiple occasions, “the stupid American voter,” testifies today on Capitol Hill, a newly discovered podcast captures Gruber admitting that the supposed cost savings that Obama used to sell the law were completely fictitious. “I wish that President Obama could have stood up and said, ‘You know, I don’t know if this bill is going to control costs. It might, it might not. We’re doing our best,’” Gruber says...Diane Feinstein Endangering Americans Overseas!
Gabor (Gabe) Zolna
The movie that Obama authorized, Zero Dark Thirty clearly shows the CIA interrogation procedures. There could be nothing more damaging in the report that Dian Feinstein intends to release than what was described vividly in that move.
Ex-Muslim Angers Muslims By Telling Them
ISIS Is Doing What Muhammad Did
ISIS Is Doing What Muhammad Did
By Ben Barrack, Shoebat Foundation— This is a fascinating exchange between a former Muslim named Ahmad Harqan and Sheik Sayyed Zaid, a very devout Muslim with Al-Azhar’s Fatwa Committee. Harqan left Islam but became an atheist. Nonetheless, as he explains in the video, his decision to do so came as a result of thinking critically. As Harqan is delivering is critique, the looks on the faces of the moderator and Zaid would kill if they had the ability. Harqan also makes the claim that ISIS is doing the same thing Muhammad used to do and that...NewsBusted: December 9, 2014
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• Social Security
• Eric Garner Case
• Candy Crowley
• CNN
• President Obama
• Ferguson, Missouri
• Native American Tribes
• McDonald’s McRib
• Cher
TV News Legend: Obama Explodes With ‘Profanity’
Journalist slams administration as ‘most opaque’
By Joe Kovacs, WND — Legendary ABC News journalist Ann Compton says President Barack Obama launches into “profanity-laced” tirades against the news media in off-the-record meetings with reporters, and she calls his administration “more opaque than any I have covered.” Compton retired from the network in August after a 40-year career, and she made the comments about Obama in a new interview that aired Sunday night with Brian Lamb of C-SPAN. “I have seen in the last year Barack Obama really angry twice,” Compton said. “Both were off-the-record times. One, profanity-laced where he thought the press was making too much of scandals that he did not think were scandals.”...Excessive Political BS
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Jesus Privately Briefing His Inner Circle of Disciples
Regarding The Last Days
Regarding The Last Days
“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.” ~ Matthew 24:3-14