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Hard Measures, part 2

April 29, 2012 4:00 PM

Jose Rodriguez, the former head of the CIA's Clandestine Service, defends the "enhanced interrogation techniques" used on high-level al Qaeda detainees and says he has no regrets. Lesley Stahl reports.

Hard Measures: Ex-CIA head defends post 9/11 tactics

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by tlproffott June 10, 2012 10:40 AM EDT
For those of you who claim this has made America into something we never wanted to be I have to say I disagree. We USED to be the most feared country in the world. We are no longer. We used to be the GREATEST country in the World. We are no longer. When al-qaeda destroyed the towers in New York and attacked the Pentagon and President Bush sent our troops into destroy these terrorist the country was supportive. A few years later the same country denounced Bush for what he did and in return we voted in someone like President BARRACK HUSSEIN OBAMA. I am still stunned and ashamed that we have this president. American? Hardly. Jose Rodriguez was doing his job. The fact that America doesn't "employ" these tactics it's not a fact. The fact is that this has been going on all along and if it were not for the American Press who are NOT out to report the truth but to cause a controversy nobody would EVER know we did these things. Are the American people so naive that they really didn't think this was going on? Now that it's out in the open so many people are judging this man? American's need to stand up and take charge. We want our country to be defended and strong but we also want to look like a bunch of pansies who cater to the "feelings" of right and wrong to the rest of the world. The rest of the world detest us. They have NO respect for America. They take our money. They sell us cheaply made merchandise and we accept it and they laugh at us. We should take care of America and not everyone else. Screw them. We help them and then we get screwed in return. I say lets put men like Jose Rodriguez in the President's office. We will once again be a strong, powerful, RICH, RESPECTED country. I'd vote for Jose in a heartbeat!
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by Roguetaino May 6, 2012 9:36 AM EDT
Thanks for your job, american real life Jack Bauer.
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by AZJeeper May 5, 2012 7:43 PM EDT
Thank God for Jose Rodriguez and those other patriots who have done and are doing everything to protect the citizens of this country!
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by jrh582000 May 4, 2012 6:56 PM EDT
If something is torture, one would not volunteer to have it done to them. Christopher Hitchens and others volunteered to be waterboarded. Don't know what it is, but that is not torture.
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by javazz-2009 May 3, 2012 1:18 AM EDT
Jose Rodriguez: This BASTARD has done more harm to the USA that any enemy would ever do, he had his plan all along, now is time to "cash in" with his book. What a despicable BASTARD.
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by billder99 May 2, 2012 9:08 PM EDT
Also, Leslie Stahl, why did you not ask the question that keeps so many verterans and active soldiers awake at night. Now that this has been approved by our Govt, haven't you made it ok to do the same to our miltary? Or to anyone who deemed to be involved in "imminent danger to US interests", including US citizens. These people are demons destroying America.
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by billder99 May 2, 2012 9:00 PM EDT
Jose Rodriguez can justify anything... it is a certainty that he has killed, maimed, tortured individuals as well as ordering others to do the same thing. This is the anitithesis of what America is supposed to be. We have lost any high ground we may ever have had. We are no better, though no worse, than the Soviets or Chinese. Is that who we want to be?
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by blcarter446 May 1, 2012 10:34 PM EDT
I am truly disappointed in our government playing the blame game. Jose Rodriguez did his job. America was attacked and 3,000 innocent people killed. I totally support whatever it takes to keep me and my family safe whether it be water boarding, sleep deprivation or anything else to get these terrorists to talk.
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by Cackyy May 1, 2012 5:39 PM EDT
you guys need to shut the hell up. Who cares what he did to terrorists? He's doing what he's doing so we can live free, hell, live at all. What if he didn't do any of this, or capture anyone and another 9/11 happens? You guys would be yelling at them for not doing anything about it. Now shut the hell up and respect the man.
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by karenvista May 1, 2012 4:53 PM EDT
Jose Rodriguez had a little dust-up regarding his activities during Iran-Contra where torture and murder were common so all of this is nothing new to him.

He is truly a man of the Bush Administration since he stated that his justification for this program was:

1) The Anthrax attacks, which were proven to be of the Ames strain, which was produced only by the U.S. government and sent to Democratic politicians and media thought to be supportive of them. Even though Dick Cheney blamed the Anthrax letters on Saddam Hussein and his henchmen (Ha) al Qaeda after the outing of the origin of the Anthrax strain they gave up and framed a couple of U.S. microbiologists for it, neither of whom were likely guilty. Cui bono?

2)al Qaeda was searching for nuclear material to attack "the Homeland." (A Nazi term if I've ever heard one.) Sounds way too much like the forged papers that came out of our Italian Embassy and the Joe Wilson expose to me. Of course, nothing was ever found. Cui bono?

They knew this wouldn't work. They are just a bunch of sociopaths who like to cause death, both fast and slow, all for their own amusement. And, of course, massive profits for themselves and their friends. The War on Terror was, and is, a giant money-laundering operation. It takes trillions of dollars of public funds and converts it to trillions of dollars of private profit! Cui bono?
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