Bush: I Didn’t Know About CIA Tape Destruction

Suuuure you did ! Mr. Bush,America can tell you’re lying,because your LIPS ARE MOVING !!!

There is no doubt that Jr is once again lying to the American people.

VP Cheney did…

The same excuse that noted fictional Nazi Sergeant Schutlz used too.
America is being lead by war criminals.
-GSD

gw is an idiot.

Does anyone believe him?

How is it possible to believe this president. He has lied throughout his presidency. Iraq, Global Warming, Detention, Touture, Iran, and the list goes on.

How is it possible to believe this president any more. He is given information about Iran during the summer and he goes ahead with his war drumming talk. He lied about Iraq, torture, Iran, global warming, detention, leaks. The list is endless. So sad. So so sad.

He is SUCH a liar! He needs to be impeached right after Cheney. Pelosi better get on the ball.

the only way i can see any possible good coming out of this 8-year national nightmare is if junior and cheney were led away from the white house in handcuffs. they have raided the united states treasury by giving no-bid contracts worth billions of taxpayer dollars to halliburton, kbr, bechtel, and the oil companies…they have bankrupted the federal gov’t and kept needed funding from the most vulnerable among us…they have lied, cheated, and disgraced america in the eyes of the entire world. they have degraded science by instructing employees of the government to lie about global warming…it’s astonishing that the student-led revolution of the 1960′s is not being repeated in the streets of america in 2007…is everyone too stoned on prozac to get mad?? it makes me sick and it has got to end soon.

the saddest thing about both this article and the comments included is the simple fact that americans no longer believe our president when he speaks. i don’t mean to sound like an idealistic civics student, but it is deeply disturbing that we as a nation have such little respect for our leader. don’t get me wrong, he has done very little to earn that respect or trust. all i’m saying is that it is a sad indictment on our president, our government and our current national psyche.

Despite his vigorous defense of his past conduct, Kiriakou says he now views what he did as torture and says that he would not recommend those tactics going forward. “We don’t need enhanced techniques to get that nugget of information,” he said in an interview with Matt Lauer this morning on The Today Show.
Lauer asked Kiriakou where the permission was given to carry out torture. “Was the White House involved in that decision?” Lauer asked. “Absolutely,” Kiriakou said, adding:
This isn’t something done willy nilly. It’s not something that an agency officer just wakes up in the morning and decides he’s going to carry out an enhanced technique on a prisoner. This was a policy made at the White House, with concurrence from the National Security Council and Justice Department.
Lauer then referenced an earlier interview he did with President Bush, in which Bush said he was assured by the Justice Department “we were not torturing.” “I disagree,” Kiriakou said.

Bush not knowing what goes on in his administration? That’s news to me.

Oh, yeah – I believe him. How can you not believe that honest, sincere face? In a rat’s behind. He couldn’t tell the truth if he had to. GWB is the biggest liar, crook, and war monger in the world – not the country – the world. He is probably the one who set everything in motion along with his croney, robot, heartless Dick Cheney. How can one die from heart trouble,when he has no heart.

I don’t believe anything this guy has to say. It’s really sad.
You would like to at least assume that sometimes you can believe your president. But this guy has cried wolf so often, been caught lying so often .. This man has no credibility.
As far as impeaching him. I was pretty supportive of that until I heard Bill Clinton talk about it a couple of weeks ago in an interview.
He said that Tip O’neal had the grounds to impeach Reagan over the Iran Contra thing which went against Constitutional government. This administration is also susceptible to impeachment where they’ve also stepped outside the bounds of our Constitutional Government.
But the Democratic Congress, both times put the future of our country as a Constitutional Government ahead of the short term Political Gain that could be achieved by going for Impeachment. That I believe is VERY important point.
Unfortunately their Republican counterparts had no qualms about impeaching for lying about a B–J for short term political gains.
Big Reason No. 1 for me leaving the Republican Party. I’d kinda want this country to last long enough for my Grand-Kids to enjoy it.

Who cares if terrorists were being tortured. How else is the US going to extract information from these gutless cowards? Are we supposed to try & reason with these animals? These people want to to destroy all of us. For all you people who think torturing these criminals is a bad idea, I have one word for you wimps, WAAAH

prezzzident “Bushed” wouldn’t know the truth if it hit him over the head…and neither would Cheney.

Who cares if terrorists were being tortured. How else is the US going to extract information from these gutless cowards? Are we supposed to try & reason with these animals? These people want to to destroy all of us. For all you people who think torturing these criminals is a bad idea, I have one word for you wimps, WAAAH

Funny how leaders of the GOP including Bush and his people all have demensia. No wonder this country is in deep doo doo. We need leaders who can remember important matters. I think there’s another reason for all these memory lapses.

His first recollection . . . I guess this leaves room for he was drunk and blacked out when he first learned that the tapes existed and, later, that they’d been destroyed. Perhaps a slip of the tongue, but, more likely not.

Who cares if he knows everything that happens on the planet or not? I believe him. We did not torture these prisoners of war. We only waterboarded them. That is pouring water over there faces to simulate drowning. The key word is simulate. Torture is cutting off limbs, burning with fire and electricity and beheading. If we saved just ONE American life, I say waterboard them frequently. Know your enemy. They have one goal in life, to kill you, me and our children or convert us to the most violent religion called islam.

Ron, many people probably don’t care if terrorist are being tortured. Unfortunately for them, that is not the standard. It is unlawful. Period. Once you learn that fact, the rest is pretty simple. In a nation of laws, you’re not suppose to break the laws, even for a very good reason. And the reason some of us are so outraged is because we know that torture is not being limited to those you refer to as cowardly terrorists or animals, but is being inflicted upon many, many others that are, gasp, innocent. So, to catch a terrorist or 2, you and yours are content to turn entire regions against us. Thanks for nothing.

Only because Dick didn’t want to trouble him with facts.

There are studies upon studies that show that torturing people doesn’t make what they say any more believable.
Anybody… Even those who support those methods, have to admit that they’ll say anything the people administering the torture want them to say to get the torturing to stop.
I don’t doubt for an instant that there are a lot of innocent people in prison who had a confession tortured out of them.

He’s told so many lies that even if he came out and said the grass was green and they sky is blue, I’d still not believe him. He’s a lying fool that needs to be impeached and nobody on capitol hill has the ##### to do it. That is a pretty pathetic state of affairs, IMHO.

If I lie to the Government it is a crime…When the GOVERNMENT lies to me it is what…classified….need to know….greater good….NO IT IS A LIE AND SHOULD BE A CRIME!

Sure your didn’t. Just like you didn’t know that Iraq did not have WMD but was adamant that they did and now your doing the same thing with Iran despite the fact a report came out saying they don’t and you just want to invade Iran as part of the NWO plan your society has planned. Watch out America. Bush is getting us into a hole so big we won’t be getting out of.

Evidently you must realize too that the Bush is a liar or you wouldn’t be so ticked off! He’s been lying to the American people since he first sat down in the oval office 6 years ago.

I believe him…. Of course I believe in gun-toting Easter Bunnies wearing crucifixes and shouting praise the lawd! as loud as their little sinning voices will allow!

Lets see how many liars we have in here.. How many of you voted for him in 2000?
How many of you voted for him in 2004?
How many of you can stand here and say that you voted for Kerry and be proud?
How many of you can admit that you voted for GW at all, yet still stay in this discussion with dignity?
I guess at least 52% of you should leave or shut it!
I voted for Kerry and Gore and am proud that I had nothing to do with electing this pig and therefore I can call him a LIAR with sincere meaning!

How is it that he can be the U.S. President, yet he NEVER knows anything about anything. Oh sorry, except that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Now THAT he knew.

Does he really think we are going to believe him?? What’s up — either Cheney is running the whole show and he really doesn’t know anything or he is in some comotose condition not even denial — and while, not many people actually talk to him — if Harriet Myers knew, he knew.

It’s ironic that the President does not know what’s going on – I suppose we cannot use his motto, “accountability, everyone should be accountable for their actions” This administration is always speaking from both sides of their mouth. It is just the way politics work in Washington, don’t take it personal so when the Democrats are in office save this date to remind you of the way it was…. a President not knowing what’s going on in Washington.

“It will be interesting to know what the true facts are.” — this is from a guy that wouldn’t know what the true facts were ON ANYTHING if they bit him on the ###.

It seems to me that if the reason for destruction of these tapes is that if they were leaked, it might reveal the identity of covert agents, then the logic is flawed.
There are any number of documents that the CIA has that were they revealed, might compromise the identity of agents. (pay records, medical records, employee files, reports, notes, etc) In fact, probably 90% of all the documents the CIA has would, if leaked, reveal the identity of a covert agent.
But the CIA is not destroying all their records. They classify them as secret, and trust in their people to keep the secret. What these guys at the CIA are hiding, they’re hiding from the Congress. They’re hiding it from us.
Bottom line is:
If Bush didn’t know, he’s incompetant.
If Bush did know, he’s a liar.
Sort of the same conundrum as the 16 Words, the Iraq WMD, the Valerie Plame leak, the US Attorney firings, 9/11 Warnings, Katrina Warnings, Jack Abramoff, Secret CIA Prisons, the list goes on and on.

THIS COMMENT COMING FROM A 21% approval
rating presidente!!!!!! Who really listens
to him? NOBODY IS BUYING THIS CRAP.

Bush doesnt know much of anything. But he is a prodigious liar and manipulator. And he IS willing to say or do whatever it takes to get what he and his backers want.

Jay Rockefeller, Jane Harmon and Nancy Pelosi all knew about the CIA Tapes years ago, as they knew about the CIA jails around the world, before the New York Times exposed both…it had to be one of them that exposed the CIA secrets to the press. Yes, call a Special Prosecutor to look into these treason acts…..the Democratics are quilty and have stepped into it again. Idiots.

Oh and for that person who asked.
Never voted for Clinton in either 1992 or 1996.
I voted for GW in 2000 .. Worst throwaway vote I ever did. And I voted for Kerry in 2004.
If I had to do it again, I’d vote for Clinton in a heart beat…. As well as Gore and Kerry.
I’m a life long Republican who saw the light after 2000. Love to see the Republicans get back to the Conservatism of Goldwater. But don’t think there’s much of a chance until they’ve lost all power.

If Bush Jr was asked what time it was…he’d lie about it.

This will forever be known as the “Schultz Administration,” because “I know NOTHING” is their only response to questions.

What a BRILLIANT strategy by the GOP. To elect a man who is SO STUPID that he can claim he doesn’t know about things even he was told about… you know, like the memo “Bin Laden Determined to Strike inside America” … he can just claim he didn’t see it… and by all accounts of his past doings, he can be excused!

“go live with the enemy for you are the very enemy within.” Posted by: Sumterala | Dec 11, 2007 2:56:51 PM
You have that backwards.
77% of the US Population do not Support Bush, we live in Reality.
Unlike 23% of you Bushies who condone Illegal Torture. …How can you call 77% of the American Population the “enemy” & call yourself an American?

“My first recollection….” Okay, we don’t need to hear any more. He’s lying, and actually remembering what his lawyer told him to say.

Our president couldn’t tell the truth if it killed him. Isn’t it amazing how fast his memory goes when it’s convient. Maybe it’s just senior moments!

HILARIOUS…some of these posts. Here come all of the anti-American defenders of the worst, most corrupt, and most incompetent administration in US history. It seems obvious that all these “different” posts are coming from the SAME person…a thirteen year old with cheeto-stained fingers living in the backwoods of Alabama.

I wish that someone could file an INITIATIVE PETITION to Congress, asking to IMPEACH Cheney first then Bush.

at this point, not only do i not believe him, but i’m also convinced that he and/or cheney are behind every crime that’s ever happened in modern history.

No doubt the most out-of-touch, unfocused, uncurious and totally incompetent man ever to reside in the Oval office. I’m counting down the days until he’s gone.

George W. Bush has committed all future american POW’s being subjected to torture and waterboarding, and the U.S. will not have a leg to stand on to object. You reap what you sow.
What a sad excuse for a president. Eight years of lies.

Here’s an interesting thought: the one who’s currently serving as U.S. president used the word “or” in that sentence. He didn’t know about the videos OR about their destruction until Hayden told him. This comes from a devious administration that parses words in ways that make “what the meaning of ‘is’ is” seem like child’s play. Think of that lying liar Alberto Gonzales.
So by saying “or” the Commander in Chimp technically lets himself off the hook. It can be one OR the other. Linguistically speaking, he could have known the torture videos existed — I can imagine him watching them as he wanked — but he didn’t know they had been physically destroyed until Hayden told him “Mr. President, we have carried out your oders to erase the evidence.”
I’m just sayin’…

President Bush is a fool.

Bush: “The Iraqi Army was disbanded? When did that happen?”
He still doesn’t know by the way.