President Obama: After 9/11, 'We Tortured Some Folks'

Obama Says That After 9/11, 'We Tortured Some Folks -- Reuters

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday the CIA "tortured some folks" after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that the White House had handed over to Congress a report about an investigation into "enhanced interrogation techniques."

"We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values," Obama told a White House news conference.

Obama's comment was a reaffirmation of his decision to ban the use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding shortly after he took office in January 2009.

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My Comment: So .... one of the worse kept secrets is now public .... but is the "outcry" justified? My memories of 9/11 are very vivid .... I had to be in New York city on September 22, 2001 ... I still went .... and the memory of that smouldering ruin is still in my mind. After the attack my friends in Russia and China and everywhere else were badgering me every hour .... asking me questions such as .... what is going to happen, who did it, will there be more attacks, what is the U.S. going to do? I knew that the U.S. was going to respond .... everyone knew that .... but I told everyone that the Americans had "taken their gloves off" .... and it would be best to leave them alone but help them if requested.

"They had taken their gloves off" .... everyone knew what I meant by that. The U.S. was going to do everything in it's power to find the perpetrators of this crime .... and no one cared on how it was done.

Today .... we do care .... or at least some in power do. They will pontificate and look serious and say that this is not what America does .... but I do remember what happened after 9/11 .... and I can easily predict the following. If another 9/11 hits the U.S. .... or something worse .... President Obama will be the first one saying to everyone .... "We are taking our gloves off".