CIA Director Hayden: CIA will follow waterboarding ban if passed

[babylonsister]

Well isn't that just peachy of him to claim they'd actually follow the law for a change. :eyes:

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/29/hayden-cia-will-follow-waterboarding-ban-if-passed/



Hayden: CIA will follow waterboarding ban if passed.

In a memo to agency employees, CIA Director Michael Hayden said that he opposed legislation in Congress that would place the agency’s interrogation program under the dictates of the U.S. Army Field Manual, but would follow the law. “If the Intelligence Authorization Bill becomes law, these procedures will be taken off the board for American interrogators,” wrote Hayden. The law, according to Hayden, “will have a direct impact on our ability to gather intelligence and to detect and prevent future attacks.”

[TwilightGardener]

1. What choice do they have? Unless a signing statement or "legal memo" can

be drafted on the sly, that is...

[Supersedeas]

11. signing statement if there is any veto override -- count on it

[spanone]

2. well, now ain't that nice of him.....you'd have no fucking choice mr hayden

[ClassWarrior]

3. This is a trap. There are ALREADY laws against torture.

If Congress passes a law to outlaw waterboarding alone, it'll set a precedent that it's NOT torture, and every freak who has been involved in the practice up till now will be off the hook.

NGU.

[EFerrari]

4. Exactly. It was ALREADY illegal, they did it anyway and we're supposed

to believe they will respect a new law?

They will be off the hook AND they will continue to do whatever the hell they want to.

[tanyev]

8. And how many other methods will they come up with that would then

be "legal" until individually outlawed?

[malaise]

5. But what is the Attorney General doing about

those who authorized this illegal war crime.

[jmowreader]

9. Protecting them. Don't be silly.

[malaise]

10. LOL

:D

[L. Coyote]

6. The implications of the impact statement are stunning. What are they doing

that implies such incredible change if they have to adhere to norms of combat?

[C_U_L8R]

7. Don't these idiots know it's already illegal?

geez what goobers.