DOJ reveals that Bush/CIA interrogators threatened KSM’s children; Holder to appoint special prosecutor

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 24, 2009 02:58 PM

Can’t say I’m getting all wee-weed up about the DOJ disclosure today that Bush/CIA interrogators threatened 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s family (info that isn’t even new.)

Nope. No tears.

How about you?

Flashback: 9/11 Children

Flashback: Angels on loan from God

Via Sgt. Tim Sumner, photos of the angel children murdered on 9/11:

nosurrender.jpg
Lan astaslem: Arabic for “I will not submit/surrender”

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Distraction time:

The US attorney general is set to name a special prosecutor to probe CIA interrogators suspected of having violated anti-torture laws, US media said Monday.

Eric Holder, America’s top law enforcement official, will name veteran justice department prosecutor John Durham to examine nearly a dozen cases of potential violations, according to the Washington Post.

…Obama has previously ruled that terror interrogators acting on legal guidelines written by the Bush administration after the September 11 attacks in 2001 should not face prosecution.

The buck stops with Obama, except when it’s politically inexpedient:

Leaders at the Justice Department and the intelligence community have clashed this year over the release of sensitive interrogation memos, military photographs of detainee abuse and how to handle the cases of more than 200 detainees at the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Holder’s decision could complicate the Justice Department’s relationship with the White House, where President Obama has repeatedly expressed a desire to move forward from the national security controversies of the Bush administration. Deputy White House press secretary Bill Burton told reporters Monday that the president had complete faith in Holder and that the decision whether to launch an investigation was the attorney general’s sole prerogative.

“The White House supports the attorney general making the decisions on who gets prosecuted and investigated,” Burton said.

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Update: Left-wing letdown over CIA abuse report distraction.

Hype and change…the subject.

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  1. #101
    On August 24th, 2009 at 9:53 pm, Cowboy said:

    Again, this administration will go down in history as the most corrupt, inept and dangerous in the history of this country.

  2. #103
    On August 24th, 2009 at 10:06 pm, Flyoverman said:

    KSM and all of his buddies merit the same quarter the people in the North and South Towers received.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avapThKUn3s

    Th invsetigation should be why this POS was not lined up and shot 5 years ago.

  3. #104
    On August 24th, 2009 at 10:18 pm, greenfairie said:

    When 750,000 New Yorkers die in a dirty bomb attack in the future, just remember who they voted for.

  4. #106
    On August 24th, 2009 at 10:26 pm, Flyoverman said:

    On August 24th, 2009 at 10:18 pm, greenfairie said:

    When 750,000 New Yorkers die in a dirty bomb attack in the future, just remember who they voted for.

    One would be lgm.

  5. #108
    On August 24th, 2009 at 10:48 pm, chep said:

    I’d like to threaten the terrorists too. They certainly did not stop at cutting people’s heads off, blowing up innocent women and children and savagely killing anyone who did not stand by their ideaologies.

    Obama and Holder are going to look stupid on this. Even MSNBC was reporting about it on the lunchtime news as if it might be a worthless cause. Nevermind that they are trying to treat brutal savages as if they amount to something other than turds.

    It has already been reported that these tactics were highly successful and I believe that a majority of Americans will support them in the interest of national security.

    Keep looking dumb Obama.

  6. #109
    On August 24th, 2009 at 10:52 pm, Jimmie said:

    Liars, Cheaters….Gobdaws (Irish} the lot of them….thick as manure and less that half as useful…have they …tried the patience of WE THE PEOPLE yet?

  7. #111
    On August 24th, 2009 at 11:21 pm, rightwingrocker said:

    Can’t say I’m getting all wee-weed up about the DOJ disclosure today that Bush/CIA interrogators threatened 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s family (info that isn’t even new.)

    Last time I used language that was appropriate regarding Khalid Sheik Mohammed, my comment was deleted.

    I suppose to repeat myself would get the same result.

    Suffice to say that I couldn’t care less about Khalid or his family. Let them suffer like the scumbag’s victims.

    RWR
    http://www.rightwingrocker.com

  8. #112
    On August 24th, 2009 at 11:26 pm, RetFireman said:

    Yeah…I’m all misty-eyed and lumpy-throated over the children of this murdering scumbag, all of whom will one day be joining their local chapter of “Kill All Jews And Americans in the Name of the Moon God” organizations where they will be treated like and revered as heroes, were threatened…emptily…with being killed in order to hopefully gain information which would hopefully lead to exposing and halting the plansvto murder hundreds if not thousands of legitimately innocent victims, many no doubt being children whose parents are NOT murderous Islamic thugs.

    The only thing that upsets me sbout this is the fact that it was an empty threat and those little %}>*#|€%{ are still around, biding their time until they can exact their revenge on this country for bringing their murdering father to justice.

    These freakin Liberals are so backwards and misguided…I can’t even begin to express my feelings. And go on, start in about”lowering ourselves to their level” and “we’re better than that” nonsense. There is only one language they speak, one language they understand, and it is well past the time this country invests in some “Rosetta Stone” programs and learns how to speak it. Save the “they’re innocent children” sanctimony. If you really and honestly believe that, then you are one of those incredibly misguided ones I am referring to.

  9. #113
    On August 24th, 2009 at 11:26 pm, rightisright said:

    Exactly who were these dumb asses that voted for this turd..sorry, but I look at those pictures my eyes swell with tears for the children and their families, then the anger hits…what a bunch selfish, ignorant, stupid, butt wipes voted for this A-hole.

    I see now Dick Head Brown of the once “Great” Briton has been negotiating with Gadafy for the release of this POPuke. I was not a fan of G.W. Bush, but one thing for sure this spineless G. Brown would not have done what he did if G.W. was in office. they might not of liked him, but they weren’t so sure he wouldn’t blow of the face of earth at the same time if pissed him off… you know “cowboy” and all. Now we have this spineless, affirmative action president, worthless POS.

  10. #114
    On August 24th, 2009 at 11:34 pm, rightisright said:

    And go on, start in about”lowering ourselves to their level” and “we’re better than that” nonsense.

    I’m sick and tired of that crap also, it’s got us no where but giving us a group of spineless rino’s kissin left wing butt and losing congressional majority…as far as the rest of world goes #$%@#$ them too, I really don’t give a damn.

  11. #115
    On August 25th, 2009 at 12:27 am, Tantor said:

    This DOJ document did not break the news that interrogators threatened KSM’s children. I read it in a news magazine years ago, probably Newsweek. KSM was indifferent to the threat, saying that if killed, his children would go to paradise, so it did not bother him. The story was trying to tell how hard it was to break the supposedly hard-boiled terrorist masterminds.

  12. #117
    On August 25th, 2009 at 1:43 am, RetFireman said:

    They count on that attitude. They rely on it. Hell, they use it in their propaganda and training of their homocide thugs. They straighy out say that we won’t do such things and to not fall for it. You think KSM responded to that threat because he actually believed his family and children would be harmed?

    Want to know why waterboarding and the rest worked? Because all the way up to the point where he first got damp, he believed with his whole heart that we would not actually go through with it. He knew, as does the rest of the world, or at least did, that this country would not “stoop to their level”. There was no incentive for them to give up anything, for in their minds, we weren’t either serious or committed.

    That all changed the minute it became known that the rules had changed, that the “cowboy” in the White House was willing to do what it took, was committed and serious. The waterboarding only lasted seconds, and he was spilling his guts…along with the others.

    Well, along comes Mr. Socialist-Hippie-Free Thinker and the rest of the panty-waists who go off on “We are better than that” and “We do not stoop to their level”, going even farther and saying that they not only don’t have to tell us anything, but they have the right not to and we will even provide them with some failed Mafia lawyer who hates this country as much as his new client and who will make sure they reveal nothing.

    It was proven that those tactics do not work, and the only thing that did was “Stooping to their level”, and Obama and his cadre of clowns have told the world that we will now harbor, defend, and give safe haven to terrorists and their ilk.

  13. #119
    On August 25th, 2009 at 7:13 am, beachmom said:

    Awwww, poor, poor terrorist. Responsible for thousands of murders and he’s threatened with the lives of his family?
    I’m all teary eyed. After all, he’s only responsible for destroying thousands of families who probably didn’t even know who he was.
    Sheesh!!
    Really?
    Eric Holder is being completely transparent. As is Obama. Holder isn’t going to do anything like this without the boss’ ok.
    Investigations on the CIA interrogators who were working to keep Americans safe and then dropping an already won case against the New Black Panthers for terrorizing voters?

    Agenda anyone?

  14. #120
    On August 25th, 2009 at 8:05 am, Atlanta Media Guy said:

    So Holder drops the charges on the Black Panther Thugs that intimidated voters in Philly. The same Holder is now going after CIA agents that did all they could to keep us safe after 9/11.

    I know hindsight is 20/20, just think if Bush had cuddled up with KSM back then, a jetliner would have crashed into the tallest building on the west coast killing hundreds maybe thousands more.

    As Obama makes us more susceptible to terrorism, the next attack on America will be laid at the feet of this administration and no one else. How much more of this can Americans take? Obama should and most likely will be the last community organizer to be elected leader of the FREEEEEEE world.

  15. #121
    On August 25th, 2009 at 9:23 am, spaceycakes said:

    Kill ‘em all/let G-d sort ‘em out

  16. #124
    On August 25th, 2009 at 12:19 pm, pueblo1032 said:

    Why stop with children??? Go after, MOTHERS, FATHERS, BROTHERS, SISTERS, AUNTS, UNCLES, and don’t forget COUSINS… As SEAN CONNERY said in “THE UNTOUCHABLES”… “They come at you with a knife, you go after them with a gun, they put one of yours in the hospital, you put one of theirs in the morgue”…

  17. #125
    On August 25th, 2009 at 12:26 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8398902

    “that he did not know about until he took the job. ”

    Well duh…. Its the CIA. Panetta should not have known everything about the inside of the CIA until he took over.

    The liberal mindset just hates to have to acknowledge that evil exist and does so not because anyone is a victim of conservative or Christian oppression. The rubber meets the road in regards to reality at places like the CIA and anti-terrorism strategies. The left can’t seem to handle the truth of the thing as the truth of it destroys their polly-anna view of the world and the world’s issues.

  18. #126
    On August 25th, 2009 at 12:27 pm, jsmiddleton4 said:

    “So Holder drops the charges on the Black Panther Thugs that intimidated voters in Philly. The same Holder is now going after CIA agents that did all they could to keep us safe after 9/11.”

    Can you imagine a better political ad AND Holder did this all to himself!

  19. #127
    On August 25th, 2009 at 4:43 pm, emjem24 said:

    These evil bastard terrorists will break these Dem cowards. Terrorists incite fear and cowardice and are scared of nothing.

    On a side note and a disheartening one at that, a majority of Americans are cutting and running from Afghanistan. If the fight is too brutal and too “strenuous” the attitude is “screw it and move on.”

    Many in the military think we have no strategy in Afghanistan right now. You can put the entire US Armed Forces in that country and without a strategy it won’t matter. The Afghan government is weak and corrupt (just like ours) and nothing will be solved until there is not just a functional government but one that is strong. It also helps if there is a functioning, cohesive society instead of the feuding, tribal one that exists in most parts of the Middle East.

    The American people always catch on a little too late. And the ones that pay are always our troops and people who prevent terrorist attacks from happening- like the FBI, CIA, and Border Patrol.

  20. #129
    On August 25th, 2009 at 5:11 pm, love2rumba said:

    Yeah, what a monster that evil McCain is.

    Well McCainiac, He is also talking out of both sides of his mouth when he also opines about how much he misses Sen. Kennedy’s input on health care (socialized medicine nuber alles)…get a brain.

  21. #130
    On August 25th, 2009 at 7:43 pm, love2rumba said:

    that’s ‘uber alles’ not ‘nuber alles’

  22. #131
    On August 25th, 2009 at 7:58 pm, love2rumba said:

    McCain should have been shown the door a long time ago. I’m working to help that Bipartisan collbaorator leave in 2010.

  23. #132
    On August 25th, 2009 at 8:17 pm, TiminPhx said:

    One huge problem, brought about by Clinton and not corrected by Bush is the confusion Americans have between what is war and what is a domestic police operation.

    In wars, we have bombed whole cities in order to protect our own country and to achieve victory.

    Our police here in the states are different creatures and operate under radically different and understandably more restrictive rules.

    When we get into terms about bringing these terrorists “to justice” we start blurring the lines.

    It should be, “When we kill our enemy.”

    There are rules in war, but merely threating to kill someone’s family and not doing so in order to get vital info…

    Well if you object to that, you are a self righteous whackjob that doesn’t care if your fellow countrymen die by the thousands.

  24. #136
    On August 26th, 2009 at 12:08 pm, GraniteMan said:

    Did KSM threaten the families of people who died in the Trade Center attack? If he did it will be too bad for him. They’ll hold him an extra month before they let him go.
    I wish the Obama administration was as honorable as they are trying to be as they look back at history and say—You Bad!
    Instead we get terrorists being freed, health care by stealth, cash for convicts, nationalized businesses, Crazy gay guy trying to nationalize the financial world and everyone running around when there approval ratrings drop saying “They resent a black man who is a success”……. They Bad!

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