ACLU Does NOT Run the CIA

The ACLU has responded to Michelle Bachmann's claim during the Repubublican Presidential Debate that they are running the CIA.

From ACLU Email:

The presidential debates this year have been filled with — how should I put it? — interesting moments. One of them came Saturday night when Michele Bachmann commented that:

"Today, under Barack Obama, he is allowing the ACLU to run the CIA."

Huh?

Yesterday, on Meet the Press, she clarified that she meant to say the CIA is being run in accord with the "philosophy" of the ACLU. Perhaps she needs some clarification on what the CIA is doing and what the ACLU stands for.

Either way, let's help her out by bringing her up to speed.

Add your name to our "Five Clues that the ACLU doesn't run the CIA" message.

CLUE #1: If the ACLU ran the CIA, we wouldn't have undermined our security and values by using waterboarding and other forms of torture.

CLUE #2: If the ACLU ran the CIA, we would have helped restore our nation's standing in the world with a full and complete accounting of any past involvement in torture.

CLUE #3: If the ACLU ran the CIA, the senior officials who authorized U.S. involvement in torture would have been brought to justice in a court of law.

CLUE #4: If the ACLU ran the CIA, there wouldn't have been any secret CIA prisons operating around the world.

CLUE #5: If the ACLU ran the CIA, the American people would never have seen extraordinary rendition, indefinite detention, targeted killing of people far from any battlefield, and other human rights abuses carried out in our name.

Let's help clarify things for Michele Bachmann. Add your name to our "Five Clues That the ACLU Doesn't Run the CIA" message.

Thanks, Anthony D. Romero Executive Director, ACLU

John McCain is a Secret Communist

John McCain: the perfect Manchurian Candidate. A man who has spent more time with communists then any presidential candidate in United States history. McCain cannot deny his radical associations, he's got the wounds to show it. I'm of course talking about his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. All those years of torture, interrogation, and indoctrination could turned him into some sort of communist sleeper cell that would one day become our president. Brainwashing is not that hard to do.

Now why am I saying this and sounding like a John Birch Society crank? Because this ridiculous guilt by loose association crap was used against Obama. The Republican candidates have got their own connections with Bill Ayers they should worry about if they really think its even relevant.

The Annenbergs-- Republicans.  Bankrolled William Ayers with $50 million

As John Martin at Republicans For Obama pointed out:

The Annenbergs-- Republicans.  Bankrolled William Ayers with $50 million 
But Walter and Leonore weren't just giving money to educational foundations started by William Ayers.  They were also giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Republican National Committee and various other Republican groups, as well as to a whole host of Republican candidates, including the following:

• George W. Bush      $4000
• Mitt Romney            $5000
• Strom Thurmond      $1000
• Fred Thompson        $500
• Rick Santorum          $3000

General Petraeus is Like a Birther?

At least according to Neocon and Fox News guest Marc Thiessen.
Despite evidence to the contrary the propaganda outlet and it's guests are saying over and over that torture is what led to Bin Laden. Just like them saying Bush deserves credit for killing Bin Laden. In fact he deserves none.
Marc Thiessen. appeared on Fox & Friends Sunday calling critics of enhanced interrogations "the new birthers"

One general included in that class of people Thiseen portrays as is General David Petraeus. Thiseen does acknowledge that Petraeus is against torture and supports closing GITMO. Now that Petreaus will head the CIA Thiseen critiqes the nomination nonsensically.

"Thanks to Obama the CIA is out of the interrogation business, so there is no immediate impact on U.S. interrogation policy (or lack thereof). But that is also the problem. Appointing a CIA director with such restrictive views on interrogation does not bode well for the chances of much-needed improvements in our detention and interrogation policy."- Marc Thiessen.

As Daily Kos points out

When Thiessen says that the Obama administration has no “interrogation policy” what he means is that it doesn’t torture people. For him, the two are basically synonymous.