Pakistan helped Bin Laden, Bush-era intel may have lead to hit

I think there is now no question that the Pakistani ISI helped Osama Bin Laden hide from U.S. forces. It has always been suspected Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISID) supported terrorist elements, but now the proof is in. Bin Laden was eventually tracked down and killed in a compound located just a few hundred yards from Pakistan’s prestigious military academy in Abbotabad and I don’t think that was by accident. In December 2009, the government of Tajikistanwarned the United States that efforts to catch bin Laden were being thwarted by corrupt Pakistani spies. According to a United States diplomatic dispatch, General Abdullo Sadulloevich Nazarov, a senior Tajik counterterrorism official, told the Americans that “many” inside Pakistan knew where bin Laden was. The document revealed: “In Pakistan, Osama Bin Laden wasn’t an invisible man, and many knew his whereabouts in North Waziristan, but whenever security forces attempted a raid on his hideouts, the enemy received warning of their approach from sources in the security forces.” It's time Congress takes a look at our relationship with Pakistan and withdraws all economic aid that goes to this country.

Information is now being released showing the Bush administrations use of enhanced interrogation techniques on GITMO detainees may have been the genesis behind the intel that resulted in the Bin Laden hit. U.S. officials say some of the initial strands of intelligence that eventually led to Sunday’s military operation came from terror detainees captured after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. We have heard over the years that water-boarding provided useful intel that saved lives and prevented future terrorist attacks. We know that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was water-boarded many times and now it’s being revealed he may have provided the name of the Bin Laden courier, the same courier that was tracked to Osama’s compound in Pakistan. President Obama is taking credit for the killing of Bin Laden and to some degree it’s deserved, but credit needs to be extended to the Bush administration as well. There will be those that will deny water-boarding had anything to do with the death of Osama Bin Laden, but I think history will show a different story. Ultimately, most of the credit goes to the men and women of our military and intelligence services. They are the true heroes!

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Enhanced Interrogation Techniques and Pandora's box

In President Obama’s zeal to placate the MoveOn.org/George Soros wing of the Democratic Party is now coming back to bite them in the ass. The anti-America liberal wing has been pressuring the Obama Administration into a witch hunt of the Bush Administration since day one. Obama has acquiesced to their demands by allowing AG Holder to decide if charges are warranted for the alleged mass-torture by the Bush Administration. Former Vice-President Cheney’s call for the release of CIA memos that illustrate the success of the enhanced interrogation techniques was the first shot over the bow. It has now been proven that House Speaker Nance Pelosi lied about what she new and when she new it about the alleged torture of terrorists.

After initial denials, newly released documents prove that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was thoroughly briefed in September 2002 that CIA interrogators were water boarding terrorist Abu Zubaydah. Nancy Pelosi has lied about this knowledge from the very beginning and with good reason. If it were known that Pelosi signed off on the alleged torture, her liberal base would be outraged. The 10-page report, submitted to the Senate Intelligence Committee and other Capitol Hill officials Wednesday, refutes in considerable detail Pelosi’s statement last month that she was never told about the use of water boarding or other special interrogation tactics. According to the report, Pelosi was told of the techniques used against Zubaydah during a Sept. 4, 2002, meeting with intelligence officials.

Pelosi has said repeatedly that she was told only that the Bush administration had legal opinions that would have supported the use of such techniques. But CIA leaders have maintained that Pelosi and other Democrats who have been protesting recently about the use of enhanced interrogation knew about it all along. This shows the sharp contrast of liberal hypocarcy and the lengths they will go to harm our national security just to damage to George W. Bush’s legacy. Everything is political with these people even if it harms our war on terror and national security. Political power is more important than victory over radical Islam.

I think you will see this issue buried without much fanfare and much to the liberal wings dismay. Bush-Derangement Syndrome is still prevalent in the Democratic Party even after the victory of the Messiah. Will Pelosi face repercussions from her base because of the newly released memos? The simple answer is no. Liberals care not for truth but only for power and they will do anything to advance their cause. I would welcome such a debate and the importance of EIT and the American lives that were saved because of it. Liberals will trade American lives to retain power and control of the government and that is just plain sick!

http://images.newsmax.com/pdfs/pelosidoc1.pdf

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