Recent 9/11 Torture Comments
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From the Left
Obama: 'We Tortured Some Folks' After 9/11 And We Have To Take Responsibility For ItPresident Barack Obama bluntly acknowledged on Friday that the United States conducted torture in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
"I was very clear that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, we did some things that were wrong," he said. "We did a whole lot of things that were right, but we tortured some folks. We did some things that were contrary to our values."
"We crossed the line and that needs to be understood and accepted. And we have to, as a country, take responsibility...
From the Center
Obama 'Torture' Comments Reopen DebatePresident Barack Obama, reopening a debate over U.S. interrogation methods under his predecessor, said a coming declassified report would show techniques used on some terrorism suspects that "any fair-minded person would believe were torture."
Mr. Obama said the declassification of the report as soon as next week would disclose a part of America's history that was wrong and runs "contrary to our values."
"We did a whole lot of things that were right [after 9/11], but we tortured some folks," Mr. Obama said at a news conference Friday.
But Mr....
From the Right
Obama: After 9-11, US 'Tortured Some Folks'The United States tortured al Qaida detainees captured after the 9/11 attacks, President Obama acknowledged Friday, in some of his most expansive comments to date about a controversial set of CIA practices that he banned after taking office.
"We tortured some folks," Obama said at a televised news conference at the White House. "We did some things that were contrary to our values."
Addressing the impending release of a Senate report that criticizes CIA treatment of detainees, Obama said he believed the mistreatment happened because of the pressure national security...
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