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CIA Blogger Fired for Criticizing Torture Policy
PetManimal writes "A contract software developer for the CIA who had a blog on the CIA intranet was fired after criticizing torture in an entry. The title of the post: something along the lines of 'Waterboarding is Torture and Torture is Wrong.' The Washington Post reports Christine Axsmith is not the only CIA blogger -- the spy agency uses blogs to let agents and other workers share information and ideas." From the article: "Hundreds of blog posts appear on Intelink. The CIA says blogs and other electronic tools are used by people working on the same issue to exchange information and ideas. CIA spokesman Paul Gimigliano declined to comment on Axsmith's case but said the policy on blogs is that 'postings should relate directly to the official business of the author and readers of the site, and that managers should be informed of online projects that use government resources. CIA expects contractors to do the work they are paid to do.'"
This guy is un-American. We need to torture people to find out information important to the war on terror. This guy should have taken the following poster
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And put it on his cubicle, because in the end we are trying to save the children
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we wouldnt want these children to be harmed by terrorists just because we didnt have the fortitude to torture them.
These terrorists were caught on the battlefield, even as close as the United States, and they should be tortured until they break and tell us all they know!
If you don't vote, you don't matter, so don't waste your time telling me your opinion
Yeah that's right, US is *not* a civilized country. It's the country where the faggots of the world live. Fuck you and I say complete bullshit ...
Those of you whom believe torture, spying, bombing terrorist hide-outs, and so on are unnecessary are neurotic. You have a severe break with reality.
Please, check yourself into a mental health facility. We will release you when a) We reach the Utopia you seem to think we are already in, b) blow ourselves to kingdom come.
I would rather risk (b) than sit back and take it in the ass like you.
The founders of this country were happier with risking (b) than taking it in the ass as well.
Please, check into that facility or move to the European "We Love it in the Ass" Union.
"Israel and Hizbolla are both doing just that right now."
Ah, lets make no distinction between TRYING to hit civilian targets and trying to limit civilian targets by leafleting and bullhorning warnings.
Hezballah is hiding in civilian populations, hiding munitions in houses, mosques, schools and hospitals because it is IMPOSSIBLE to bomb them without civilian casualties. They USE civilians as sheild and the willing appologists love to trot out the corpses of little children and women, "innocent" deaths as if Israel is actively targeting them.
Meanwhile not a condemnation of bombers walking into a market and blowing themselves up, almost on a daily basis. Rockets fired indiscriminately into civilian populations. Marching little boys down the street with fully armed with rifles in hand.
You see, by equating civilian deaths, you have lined up with Hezballah.
"Yep. Equitable peace at any cost. Do you mean you prefer this forever war?"
How do you define "equitable". Israel has given 98% of what Palistine has asked. Gaza was forsaken, Golan was vacated. Only to have the terrorists move in, and start lobbing bombs into civilian cities. World outcry over a fence to keep them on the other side. Personally, I think Israel has bent over backwards trying to live in peace with its neighbors. Meanwhile, the surrounding countries have people sworn to the destruction of all Jews. So, please define "equitable" in terms that don't allow more bombs to be lobbed into a soverign state from its neighbors.
The only solution acceptable to some is Genocide. And until people realize that, and change it, there will be no peace, it is impossible.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Fired "for" versus fired "after". There is a difference.
Of course, one doesn't expect the moonbat anti-ChimpyBusHitlerMcHalliburton crowd to catch this.
668: Neighbour of the Beast
The perception from outside the wall is that the USA is barbaric.
As someone who's actually traveled outside the country (and is in Korea as I post this), I call bullshit. Views of the U.S. vary from place to place, just as the views on anything else do. And no country is in any way united behind any one extremist position (e.g., "the U.S. is barbaric").
The slow decline of the US has been going on since the 50s.
The slow decline in what? Whether or not a bunch of has-been European powers approve of how we do things? Cry me a fucking river. I'm far more interested in what up-and-coming powers think of us - y'know, the people who'll actually matter during the 21st century. Like Japan, China, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, etc. About the only European nation worth listening to these days is Germany.
Ironic, in an Alanis Morrisette sort of way.
Since then you've done everything possible to make the rest of the world hate you
If by "rest of the world" you mean "Europeans pining after their former place in the sun", perhaps you're right. If you mean certain Islamic countries in the Middle East, I can't really get worked up about that, either. But neither of these regions are remotely close to comprising "the rest of the world".
ignoring the United Nations
I fail to see how this is a bad thing. I'm not interested in anything remotely close to a one-world government, nor in having foreign nations dictate the affairs of my country. I'm quite fortunate to live in a country that can say "fuck you" to the UN and make it stick.
you're honestly looking not much better than one of those tinpot dictatorships in South Africa.
What an ignoramus. Why don't you haul your pasty, fat ass off to one of those "tinpot dictatorships", live a few months there, and then get back to us how how closely the U.S. compares to it. Assuming you get back alive at all, of course.
The only thing this statement tells us is just how bloody ignorant you are when it comes to the rest of the world.
But don't you dare get all holier than thou while allowing the current administration to get away (literally) with murder.
We'll dare anything we like, thanks. Not much you can do about it other than whine here on Slashdot. If you're expecting some outpouring of "American Guilt" you can forget it - most of us have had enough of that, and we're done now.
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?