Jake Tapper shows occasional signs of actually doing his job:
Former CIA director Michael Hayden on Thursday defended the agency’s use of rectal rehydration, calling it a “medical procedure.”
The back and forth with CNN’s Jake Tapper was in reference to the Senate’s report released this week that describes interrogation techniques the CIA employed in the years after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
When Tapper began talking about specific torture methods and mentioned the use of rectal rehydration, Hayden interrupted the host, saying, “Stop, that was a medical procedure that was done because of detainee health.”
Hayden said officials saw dehydrated detainees and had “limited options” and that using an intravenous needle would be “dangerous with a non-cooperative detainee.”
Tapper retorted, “But puréeing hummus and pine nuts?”
“Jake, I’m not a doctor and neither are you, but what I am told is this is one of the ways that the body is rehydrated, these were medical procedures,” Hayden said.
“You’re really defending rectal rehydration?” Tapper asked.
CIA director John Brennan held a news conference yesterday at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. No other CIA director in history has ever done that. What we can conclude from that is that the CIA is on the run. Brennan sounded like the idiot that he is. Brennan was the number two man at the CIA when Cheney went to Langley three days after 9-11 and ordered the CIA two “get those bastards” and “use whatever means necessary to make ’em talk.” Brennan nodded in compliance and went to work. Now Brennan tells us about “agents who went too far” and “E.I.T’s” and entering into “unchartered territory” and a lot of other crap that only the fascists among us buy into. The CIA is a dangerous organization which is destroying the freedoms and liberties of all of us. They do not give a damn about that and never have. They owe their allegiance to the 1% (oligarchy) and not to “we the people.”
Hillary hasn’t said one single word about the Torture Report or the CIA. Why is that? Hasn’t she been told what her opinion is yet?
Hey Brennan, BEND OVER!
That’s my reaction, you’re defending rectal rehydration . . really? I guess I shouldn’t be though, 1% America has become a rogue nation that can excuse any horror . . . cause, as Fox Spews has it, we’re “awesome.” I’m gonna mix me a drink now.