Should memos about CIA torture techniques have been released by the Obama Administration?
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New Hampshire Union Leader
Memos about CIA torture techniques should not have been released by the Obama Administration.
He has, in short, made America less safe.
5/20/2009 2:27:07 PM
Peggy Noonan
Memos about CIA torture techniques should not have been released by the Obama Administration.
Some things in life need to be mysterious. Sometimes you need to just keep walking.
5/20/2009 2:25:37 PM
David Axelrod
Memos about CIA torture techniques should have been released by the Obama Administration.
"Virtually everything that was in those memos has been publicly reported," senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday
5/20/2009 2:24:57 PM
The Boston Globe
Memos about CIA torture techniques should have been released by the Obama Administration.
Obama was right to release the memos, which provide legal cover for at least one technique that is plainly a form of torture - waterboarding.
5/20/2009 2:24:45 PM
New York Daily News
Memos about CIA torture techniques should not have been released by the Obama Administration.
They hand terrorists a detailed account of what to expect under questioning, a playbook they can now defend against.
5/20/2009 2:24:24 PM
Donna Brazile
Memos about CIA torture techniques should have been released by the Obama Administration.
Well, I fully supported the administration releasing this.
5/20/2009 2:22:08 PM
Mary Matalin
Memos about CIA torture techniques should not have been released by the Obama Administration.
I cannot disagree more on the release of these documents. It's going to enfeeble our efforts to secure stuff. It's going to enable these terrorists
5/20/2009 2:21:41 PM
Harold Ford, Jr.
Memos about CIA torture techniques should have been released by the Obama Administration.
we are America and we got to live up to a certain standard, and I think what the president did was strike the right balance in how they went about dealing with this
5/20/2009 2:21:16 PM
John Boehner
Memos about CIA torture techniques should not have been released by the Obama Administration.
I think the release of these memos is dangerous
5/20/2009 2:19:03 PM
David Limbaugh
Memos about CIA torture techniques should not have been released by the Obama Administration.
"Lifesaving Memos: ...the administration proved it was playing politics instead of promoting our values or national security..."
5/20/2009 1:17:08 PM
Central Intelligence Agency
Memos about CIA torture techniques should not have been released by the Obama Administration.
C.I.A. oppose the Justice Department’s proposal to air the details of the agency’s long-secret program.
4/26/2009 4:06:05 PM
American Civil Liberties Union
Memos about CIA torture techniques should have been released by the Obama Administration.
ACLU filed lawsuit for release of memos.
4/26/2009 4:05:43 PM
Porter Goss
Memos about CIA torture techniques should not have been released by the Obama Administration.
Former CIA chiefs Michael Hayden, Porter Goss, George Tenet and John Deutch all called the White House in March warning that release of the so-called "torture memos" would compromise intelligence operations.
4/26/2009 4:04:31 PM
George Tenet
Memos about CIA torture techniques should not have been released by the Obama Administration.
Four former CIA directors opposed the release of classified Bush-era interrogation memos.
4/26/2009 4:04:13 PM
Janet Napolitano
Memos about CIA torture techniques should have been released by the Obama Administration.
it was imperative, really, that the reports be released.
4/26/2009 4:00:16 PM
William Kristol
Memos about CIA torture techniques should not have been released by the Obama Administration.
“I’m not confident that forswearing the use of these techniques is prudent.”
4/26/2009 3:58:40 PM
The Dallas Morning News
Memos about CIA torture techniques should have been released by the Obama Administration.
Not only was Obama right, he was courageous.
4/26/2009 3:56:46 PM
Joan Walsh
Memos about CIA torture techniques should have been released by the Obama Administration.
I believe that every step we take to learn more will only strengthen the case that someone must be held accountable for the lawless cruelty that marked the Bush-Cheney torture regime.
4/26/2009 3:56:05 PM
Lanny Davis
Memos about CIA torture techniques should have been released by the Obama Administration.
On the issue of the release of interrogation memos and the decision not to prosecute interrogators, once again President Obama has shown the courage to do the right thing
4/26/2009 3:55:30 PM
Ed Koch
Memos about CIA torture techniques should have been released by the Obama Administration.
"His critics’ argument that it gives terrorists helpful information . . . are ridiculous."
4/26/2009 3:53:38 PM