Carly Fiorina Defends Government Sponsored Torture And Surveillance

[yuiyoshida]

In an interview with Yahoo News, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina defended Bush-era spying and torture, arguing that George W. Bush’s policies kept America safe. Fiorina apparently is trying to position herself as the presidential candidate most willing to bring back the disastrous Bush-Cheney foreign policy, even though George W. Bush’s brother, Jeb Bush is also trying to stake out that claim.

Fiorina is trying to look tough on foreign policy, although it is not clear that following in George W. Bush’s clumsy footsteps is the best way to do that. Fiorina followed GOP revisionist history by arguing that Bush kept us safe and she defended torture by stating:

I believe that all of the evidence is very clear — that waterboarding was used in a very small handful of cases [and] was supervised by medical personnel in every one of those cases. And I also believe that waterboarding was used when there was no other way to get information that was necessary.

Of course, Fiorina’s statement contradicts the evidence. The Senate Intelligence Committee found that “the use of the CIA’s enhanced interrogation techniques was not an effective means of obtaining accurate information or gaining detainee cooperation”. “Enhanced interrogation techniques” like waterboarding, beatings, and rectal feeding, failed to produce intelligence that was useful for foiling terrorist plots, according to the Senate report.

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/09/28/carly-fiorina-defends-government-sponsored-torture-surveillance.html

[marym625]

1. K&R

She's just so horrible. A lying pos. There is nothing redeeming about this woman.

[yuiyoshida]

2. I don't think any of the Republicans have any

Redeeming qualities what so ever, all of them are disasters in the making, all of them too ignorant to be running for public office. All these people remind me of the guys who slept in the back of the High School classroom when things got important.

[marym625]

3. LOL!

That's probably true. Love that.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. she's good, very good. guess she had practice defending to the

press with her failed business endeavors.

She will say anything and she knows her audience (dingbat wingnuts) won't take the time to look anything up.

Chuck Todd let her get away with saying taxpayers paid for abortions. idiot. but she just plowed ahead saying the same bullshit