Obama Was Wrong Again… Waterboarded Terrorist Gave US Name of OBL’s Courier
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, May 2, 2011, 12:02 PM
Once again… The Bush-hating leftists and Barack Obama were proven wrong.
Barack Obama gave dozens of speeches about how the US will not torture (waterboard) under his administration.
Now we find this out…
Waterboarded terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed gave the US the name of Osama’s courier.
The Star-Tribune reported:
Officials say CIA interrogators in secret overseas prisons developed the first strands of information that ultimately led to the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Current and former U.S. officials say that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, provided the nom de guerre of one of bin Laden’s most trusted aides. The CIA got similar information from Mohammed’s successor, Abu Faraj al-Libi. Both were subjected to harsh interrogation tactics inside CIA prisons in Poland and Romania.
The news is sure to reignite debate over whether the now-closed interrogation and detention program was successful.
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Granny commented:
I repeat – don’t be celebrating just yet! He might not be dead at all. This very well may be another conjob by IWonWTF.
Whitehouse says they have not yet released any pictures and are debating whether they will . . .
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/05/white-house-officials-debate-releasing-photographs-of-bin-ladens-corpse-1.html
Wasn’t it convenient they buried him in the ocean . . . .
Somehow, this reminds me of a rather famous bridge in Brooklyn.
Dave-O commented:
The sounds you are hearing are the sound of libtard heads exploding all over America.
Warthog commented:
si senior?, si senior? Where are you, si senior?
We invite your commentary on the effectiveness of warterboarding.
(Or is that just my ODS talking…)
Old Fan commented:
Wow, the irony is stunning. Like a bad movie which portrays the delusion of many seeing the good guy as bad – the bad as good, today we see the joke of the Obama-Democratic Partisan sophistry.
This is someone who condemned and rebuked all of the elements of the Bush Administration policies in fighting the GWOT. Obama told us we cannot meddle, blasted UNILATERAL Military Actions on the foreign soil of other sovereign Nations.
Obama-Holder-Clinton all wanted to return to the failed days of treating their described “manmade disasters” as a mere law enforcement issue. They wanted to give monsters like Osama Bin Laden the rights of a US Citizen and to try them in US Civilian Courts.
The elimination of Bin Laden is largely due to the Bush Administration policies, and thanks primarily that the Obama-Democratic Partisan political diatribe was another lie. Bin Laden is dead, because either Obama could not end Bush Era efforts in fighting the GWOT, or he simply never intended to.
A great day, thanks to all the finest who SERVE in the mighty US ARMED FORCES. The same the Democrats compared to the Nazis. The world is better off after the Bush Team led the way in decimating the monstrous Al Qaeda. Now Bin Laden falls, and we see more vindication of the Bush Presidency.
Thank you to all involved…
#1AMERICAN commented:
I say waterboard ODUMBO and find out just how much he is hiding and lying to the USA about…now I would pay to watch that
jason commented:
The intel was gathered at cia black sites in poland and romania that obama shut down. Obama and holder are trying to prosecute these cia agents who got the key intel.
Two detainees gave the same name that is what lead to bin laden. Al libi also gave the name.
jorgen commented:
O’bozo must then remember to thank Bush for getting this information.
wow commented:
Wouldn’t it have been nice if just once our president had left himself out of the equation and just given credit where credit is due… like this:
A Grateful Nation
Posted on May 01, 2011
Americans tonight are united in celebration and gratitude. God bless all the brave men and women in our military and our intelligence services who contributed to carrying out the successful mission to bring Bin Laden to justice and who laid the groundwork over the years to make this victory possible. It’s a testament to the hard work and dedication of these brave Americans who relentlessly hunted down our enemy.
This is a victory for the American people, for the victims who were heartlessly murdered on September 11 and in Al Qaeda’s other numerous attacks, and for all the peace-loving people of the world.
May God bless our troops and our intelligence services, and God bless America!
- Sarah Palin
dunce commented:
Obama is taking credit for bin laden but he was mainly obstructionist, they could have taken him out in march but obama wanted to be able to say for certain that he got him and wanted forensic evidence. It is a war, not an overseas contingency operation. He risked dozens of our best trained men to score political points. No matter what anybody does or says there will always be a clear difference between acts of war and crimes, though there are war crimes they are not prosecuted until the war is officially over. This war will never be over because there is no one country or several countries fighting against us. Islam calls for jihad till judgment day.
Greg Hodges commented:
LMMFAFO!
mg4us commented:
They should have blown bin Laden up. . then he would have truly been a “piece-full man”.
And if they pissed on his body, would that be classified as “water torture” even if he was dead???
Congrats to our brave Navy Seals that executed this operation with precision and determination and all those brave men and women who had a part in this operation.
And let’s give President Obama credit for following the plan that President George Bush and his team laid out and initiated. It is good that Obama followed Bush’s lead.
Would have been nice to hear a REAL American-loving President say,
“Let this be a lesson to those who hurt and terrorize Americans, you can run & you can hide, but in time, we will get you and you will loose!!”
Not, we will bury you according to islamic custom. . .
Now hopefully the “buried at sea” is a smoke screen and that the CIA has Osama LOCKED UP AND SPILLING ALL HE KNOWS. . .By whatever means necessary to get him to talk!!
retire05 commented:
But once again, Obama insults the American people who have suffered, and given, so much since 9-11 by honoring bin Laden with an Islamic funeral.
Now Brennen is pissing on our leg on national TV telling us it is really raining.
All aid to Pakistan should be immediately cut off until they can show us that they are in this war against radical Islam with us. Where is Mullah Omar? We know he is also in Pakistan. How about ObL’s second in command? Dr. al Zawahiri?
Bin Laden should have been beheaded, smeared with pig blood and burned from a bridge with a warning from our Department of Defense that this is what happens to jihadists who try to do harm to America. (Muslims cannot enter heaven without a head).
Jimmy Dean commented:
Jim enough. Stop. This is a great day for America. I dislike Obama plenty but you put yourself with the Huffpo’s and Daily Kos’ of the world when EVERYTHING you write has to be partisan and nasty.
Doesn’t this register with ANY of you?
Andreas K. commented:
Actually, he’s not wrong on this. He said “no torture.”
Waterboarding isn’t torture. It’s very uncomfortable, but hardly torture.
waicool commented:
could we please see the death certificate?
jorgen commented:
#16, “could we please see the death certificate?”
Yeah, the LONG death certificate and not a photoshopped one! LOL!
Radegunda commented:
Jimmy Dean, it isn’t “nasty.” It’s telling the truth.
While Dems are crowing in the most disingenuous and partisan way, we are just pointing out the fact that the operation was made possible:
1. with information gained at CIA black sites that Obama subsequently closed and his supporters have vigorously denounced, even in Hollywood movies.
2. by interrogation techniques that Obama and his supporters have repeatedly called evil and even Nazi-like.
3. by CIA agents whom the Obama administration has aimed to prosecute as criminals.
4. by special-ops forces that Obama did nothing to create.
So when Obama gets up and says “I did this, I did that blah blah,” he is being dishonest, because it would NOT HAVE HAPPENED if his policies had been in place all along.
When all the Dems are crowing in partisan terms, saying “Obama did what Bush could not,” they are at best ignorant. There’s nothing wrong with informing them of facts.
The Obamabots are not celebrating because bin Laden is dead. They are celebrating only because they think it gives Obama a political advantage to do more damage to us.
bg commented:
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Osama was a humongous figure-head-financier, but it was Khalid Sheikh
Mohammed who planned 9/11, ergo, they are equally guilty.. yet Obama
et al fought to give him citizens rights, ergo, had we captured bin Laden,
i’m certain he too would have received the same status..
now that we fully expect blow-back (so to speak), i just
hope & pray they are still on top of the School Threat..
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Radegunda commented:
Andreas K, that may be your opinion, but Obama and all his supporters have been telling us for years that waterboarding is torture. They thought it should never be done, under any circumstances.
judy commented:
I love Gateway Pundit. I depend on this sight for the truth!!!!!
bg commented:
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Osama Is Dead. Obama Worship Is Alive and Well in Hollywood
[I honestly had zero intention of writing about the incredible great fortune Barack Obama enjoyed this past week, a week that started out badly with both his ratings and the American economy in the tank and Americans with less-yet-more-expensive gas in theirs.
If it were not for the nauseating salivations of Hollywood reporter Tim Moloy, you would have been spared having to read this. It’s a cautionary tale of what lies ahead for the next several weeks until someone in the legacy media notices the economy is still in big trouble.]
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Ginger commented:
Here is my take on this OBL thing…. Barry knew where OBL was but plans to take him was to be next year near the election. But….OBL messed things up for the kenyan fraud…OBL’s kidneys were failing and probably did not have much time in life and was about to meet his 97 virgins so the kenyan fraud had to take him down now because no way was the kenyan fraud going to let OBL die with out the kenyan fraud taking credit for murdering OBL!
Stay tuned to see his campaign ads running for taking down OBL.
Jimmy Dean commented:
“Here is my take on this OBL thing…. Barry knew where OBL was but plans to take him was to be next year near the election. But….OBL messed things up for the kenyan fraud…OBL’s kidneys were failing and probably did not have much time in life and was about to meet his 97 virgins so the kenyan fraud had to take him down now because no way was the kenyan fraud going to let OBL die with out the kenyan fraud taking credit for murdering OBL!”
The stupid. It burns. Enjoy being marginalized kiddies…I can’t be associated with idiots and keep my legitimacy. You are killing the conservative movement.
Big L commented:
If we are truly a country that doesn’t torture and has stopped that ,then how come we have O’ bama on tv 3 x a week. Enough! this is the ultimate torture the CIA should use. Play his speeches over and over. It would be: “I confess! I confess”.
Also we talk too much, it worries me to death…
All these details serve to inflame the locals, the tribe and make the job harder for the troops.
mg4us commented:
#25 Jimmy Dean
Relax man. . . it is interesting to hear differing POVs. . only God knows the truth. . .
and like Judy #21, I thing this site is great. . .as well as all the comments. . . I keep telling people to come here rather than CNN and MSM and to Drudge, Newbusters, Hot Air and Breitbart as well as the wonderful Michelle Malkin and Rush.
In the meanwhile, go back and have another one of your pork sausages. . .they are my favorite PORK sausages too. . .welll Jimmy Deans AND Bob Evans. . . .
That’s what makes this country GREAT. . variety! And healthy competition!
God Bless America!
scituate_tgr commented:
Here’s a thought.
Let’s send Thank You cards addressed to George Bush, c/o the White House.
Janus Duel commented:
W was able to be gracious about bin Laden’s execution; too bad hardly anyone here is capable of that kind of decency.
bg commented:
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Janus Duel #33
aka: “the chastise troll”
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regularguy commented:
In due course, we’ll find we got Bin Laden not BECAUSE OF Obama, but DESPITE Obama.
GrandpaEarl commented:
With all due respect for Bush and his crew, if they were responsible for this information gathering, then why wouldn’t they act on it? Or, perhaps Bush and company couldn’t act on it because it was information that took years upon years for them to understand what it meant, which then calls into question whether it was good information at all. If the information gained by water-boarding takes years to figure out, it seems very reasonable to question its merit.
Or, perhaps Bush stopped caring:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PGmnz5Ow-o&feature=related
Yes, Bush gets credit for going over there, but Obama should get at least some credit for continuing that mission. Both men and their respective administrations contributed to this result.
fakename commented:
Just to clarify, they didn’t get the information when he was being tortured. They got it later under standard interrogation techniques. Here is a clip from an AP story. “The revelation that intelligence gleaned from the CIA’s so-called black sites helped kill bin Laden was seen as vindication for many intelligence officials who have been repeatedly investigated and criticized for their involvement in a program that involved the harshest interrogation methods in U.S. history.
“We got beat up for it, but those efforts led to this great day,” said Marty Martin, a retired CIA officer who for years led the hunt for bin Laden.
Mohammed did not reveal the names while being subjected to the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding, former officials said. He identified them many months later under standard interrogation, they said, leaving it once again up for debate as to whether the harsh technique was a valuable tool or an unnecessarily violent tactic.”
tymcd commented:
@fakename …
“Mohammed did not reveal the names while being subjected to the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding, former officials said. He identified them many months later under standard interrogation”
*Standard Interrogation technique, “Do you want us to waterboard your ass again?”