Just What Does Obama Think He Is Doing?

[Steve_A]

Hi Everyone,

I read in the news today that Barak Obama is doing yet another 180 - it's enough to make even the most radical skateboarder be jealous.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_pentagon_abuse_photos

I'm not for nor against Obama, I'm not even American, but he can't be doing any favours for himself with these radical about turns.

Is this done to keep the population confused and arguing among itself? Or perhaps the whole 'enhancement' of techniques is starting to haunt Pelosi a little to close for comfort? Or could it be something else? After all Cheney has been a little vocal these last couple of days.

Keep a look out, something is in the air.

Best regards,

Steve

[energymyfoot]

I think he did the right thing..We need to move on from the past..

[BROOK]

What's in the air is the fact that the outrage that will happen after the release will be more justification to put those creeps in Jail where they belong

[feeler]

Originally Posted by Steve_A

Hi Everyone,

I read in the news today that Barak Obama is doing yet another 180 - it's enough to make even the most radical skateboarder be jealous.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_pentagon_abuse_photos

This is a bad sign. Obama is acting like a dictator. Where is freedom of speech? Where is freedom of press?

-feeler

[peaceandlove]

Another 180!!!

Caution: Flip-Flop Alarm Is Ringing

KARL DENNINGER BLOG

Has President Obama issued an actual directive to Geithner?

May 13 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Treasury will tell banks to increase transparency in the over-the-counter derivatives market by making prices available on centralized computer platforms, according to people familiar with the plan.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner may announce the decision as soon as today, said the people, who declined to be identified because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. Geithner laid out a framework in March for increasing regulation of financial markets as the worst credit crisis since the Great Depression caused more than $1.4 trillion in writedowns by banks and financial companies worldwide.

That would be a dramatic change from Geithner's and Treasury's position (going back to Paulson) - in fact, its an outright flip-flop.

Continues with links: http://market-ticker.denninger.net/a...s-Ringing.html

[BROOK]

Originally Posted by feeler

This is a bad sign. Obama is acting like a dictator. Where is freedom of speech? Where is freedom of press?

-feeler

Where is the freedom of information ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom..._United_States

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States)

[Humble Janitor]

Originally Posted by feeler

This is a bad sign. Obama is acting like a dictator. Where is freedom of speech? Where is freedom of press?

-feeler

You're going to judge his presidency on ONE decision?

Sheesh.

It looks like the backroom is hard at work. I posted Senator Lieberman's/Graham's letter to Barack Obama the other day in this thread
No worries, Sen. Lieberman! The enemies already know...
http://projectavalon.net/forum/showthread.php?t=13796

The generals also pressed for this on the same grounds, that troops would be endangered by the photographs, i.e. revenge and whatnot.

More news -

Bush's 'Smoking Gun' Witness Found Dead
IndictBushNow files Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to get to bottom of story
http://www.impeachbush.org/site/News...s_iv_ctrl=1281

Colin Powell used al-Libi's tortured and knowingly fabricated testimony to tell the United Nations that Saddam Hussein's government was helping al-Qaeda develop weapons of mass destruction to kill Americans. It was all a lie.

The cover-up of Bush-era crimes is taking a shocking but not unexpected turn. A fateful move has been made and it is certain to backfire.

Under conditions of extreme torture, the prisoner, Ibn al-Sheikh al-Libi, agreed in 2002 to supply the Bush-ordered interrogators what they sought as a political cover for Bush’s marketing of the pending war of aggression against Iraq. Mr. Libi agreed to tell them whatever they wanted in exchange for an end to the torture. The now famous Torture Memos providing legal cover for the torture were written at the same time starting in the summer of 2002.

Libi’s tortured and knowingly fabricated testimony was the source of information used by Bush to sell the war to the U.S. Senate, and the source for Colin Powell’s bogus and lying presentation to the United Nations in 2003.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice are now running around saying that the torture regime “protected the country from terrorist attack.” But the torture was used for the personal political goals of Bush and Cheney: namely, to sell their Iraq invasion to a very skeptical and disbelieving country.

Having been discovered by human rights investigators two weeks ago, Mr. Libi’s story coincided with the release of the Torture Memos and the growing clamor for criminal prosecutions of Bush officials.

His testimony is the smoking gun that would reveal that the torture regime was not for “national security” but for the personal political aims of Bush and Cheney.

He was Exhibit A in the indictment that alleges that tortured confessions and the contrived legal justifications of torture set up by Justice Department lawyers in July/August 2002 were central to the launch of the war against Iraq.

Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died and tens of thousands of U.S. service members have either been killed or badly wounded in a war that was based on lies fortified and promoted by the most sadistic torture.

Mr. Libi is suddenly dead. A Libyan “newspaper source” says that his death is an apparent suicide. His friends don’t believe that.

We are building a movement for the appointment of a Special Prosecutor. This is not a political choice. It is a legal imperative. Mr. Libi’s death must be the first business of the investigation. When other prisoners who had been kept at secret sites were sent to Guantanamo, the Bush administration and the CIA intentionally kept Mr. Libi from being part of that transfer. Mr. Libi was publicly stating that the Iraq-al-Qaeda links attributed to him from his torture sessions were not true.

“Who was the beneficiary” from his death? Why was he spirited away by the Bush administration to hidden foreign prisons after he recanted his tortured testimony and revealed that he was forced to make false statements about Iraq under torture?

IndictBushNow.org is joining with the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund and the ANSWER Coalition to demand that the truth be told. We have filed a Freedom of Information Act Request (FOIA) with the CIA, Department of Defense, Department of State and other agencies to reveal information in their possession about Libi’s imprisonment, torture, false testimony on Iraq and the circumstances of his death. To read a copy of the FOIA, click this link.