Cheney's "Team B"

[deminks]

(I have no doubt this is what Cheney wants declassified, the "link" extruded from torture).

http://oxdown.firedoglake.com/diary/5207

(snip)

In any event his story abridged by yours truly with my annotation;

The agent, Ali Soufan, was known as one of the bureau's top experts on Al Qaeda. He also had a reputation as a shrewd interrogator who could work fluently in both English and Arabic. Soufan yelled at one CIA contractor and told him that what he was doing was wrong, ineffective and an affront to American values

Notice please my bold, he yelled at "a CIA contractor"

excuse me, there are NO "CIA contractors" there are CIA agents

(snip)

THIS IS CHENEY'S TEAM B, make NO mistake about that, the professionals in the CIA KNEW with NO DOUBT they were creating MORE issues then they could POSSIBLY solve.

his "team b" manufactured false data to undermine détente, his SAME team did the SAME thing to get us into Iraq

the CIA KNEW there was no AL Qaeda-Saddam link but Cheney needed to manufacture one, therefore, "CIA contractors" to "extrude" testimony through torture

(end snip)

emphasis mine

link to Newsweek's article on FBI agent Soufan:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/195089/output/print

Link to historical "Team B" by Thom Hartmann:

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0213-28.htm

[Inuca]

1. Soufan and Zelikow will testify

in the Senate this Wednesday http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=3842

[Octafish]

2. When people are tortured they'll say anything to get it to stop.

So, c'mon Freedom-Loving Americans! Give in to the CIA's inner NAZI and embrace your inner torturer. You'll be amazed at the results!

Remember! Happy tortureres make for happy Empires.

In all seriousness: Thank you for the very important articles, deminks. The case for war crimes is pretty clear. The answer why the turds Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Goss and Co. aren't up on charges must lie beyond my pay grade. It shouldn't, as America is a Constitutional democracy where the government is supposed to be of, for and by the People.