The Bush Administration finally released on December 16 three of five Algerian detainees that a U.S. district court judge ordered released nearly a month earlier.

The case against these detainees was so weak that the Bush Administration didn’t even bother to try to charge them with a crime, either criminally or in a military court. The court order on November 20 noted that the men had been held in prison for six years without charges solely on a single anonymous source that the Bush Administration refused to release.

The three former detainees, Boudella al Hajj, Mustafa Ait Idr and Mohammed Nechle are Algerians who had been turned over to the U.S. government by the Bosnian government and transferred to the infamous prison in January 2002. One of the detainees described being beaten regularly by his captors, something that coincides with an upcoming Supreme Court case on torture at Guantanamo.

The release brings up an important question about the credibility of Bush Administration officials in our nation’s detainment policies.

Vice President Dick Cheney told CNN back in 2005: “We've let go those that we've deemed not to be a continuing threat. But the 520 some that are there now are serious, deadly threats to the United States.” Yet the administration let them out, despite the fact that Cheney had earlier told CNN that “if you let them out, they'll go back to trying to kill Americans.”

So did the administration just cut loose three killers of Americans without even trying to charge them with a crime?

Yes, if you believe the word of the Vice President back in 2005.

The trouble is, most people don’t believe Cheney, and for good reason. Cheney had long told Americans that Iraq had “pretty much confirmed” ties to the September 11 attacks. Cheney told “Meet the Press” on December 9, 2001 of 9/11 hijacker Mohammad Atta: “he did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack.”

But the meeting never happened. The Cheney story turned out to be a false lead from Czech intelligence that the Czechs rescinded. That was no matter to Cheney, who persisted in the false allegation long after it had been exposed.

Now the Bush Administration is caught in troubling logical conundrum: Either they have just released dangerous terrorists without even making an attempt at a trial, or the prisoners they released were innocent and had unjustly served six years of prison, and quite possibly torture, at Guantanamo.

Oops. The Bush Administration continues to claim they don’t torture, even though Vice President Cheney admitted to personally authorizing waterboarding. But drowning a prisoner, and then resuscitating them at the very last second is not torture, according to Cheney.

Neither, apparently, is beating detainees. And if it sometimes involves beatings that resulted in deaths, well, that’s not torture either.

… because the Bush Administration does not torture.

If you don’t believe me, just ask Dick Cheney.

He’ll tell you.

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Gary Lewis said:

Timothy Leary Quote: "Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, is has been the authorities - the political, the religious, the educational authorties - who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing - forming in our minds - their view of reality. To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself" Leary

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December 19, 2008
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DaveB said:

	911 and the new world order As Aaron Russo said, in an inteview that you can view on Youtube. 911 was created by the New World Order group to give rise to taking Afganastan and Iraq for the Oil. $20 trillion worth at $60 per Barrell. He has yet to be proven wrong. A true 911 investigation by a clean FBI, as requested by many victim families is the appropriate way to expose this High Cabal.
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Gary Larson said:

Timothy Leary quote? A quote from Timothy Leary? The LSD Guru? What is truly interesting about the Leary quote and comments following other Birch postings, is the response from people who would never, in years past, find themselves in agreement with the Birch Society. I guess it's a result of the strategy to attract a wider cross section of to the populace, so as to build a coalition of freedom fighters. I'm not passing judgement. I just find it amusing that an organization of rigid, straight-laced, socially conservative members (or so they seemed), is managing to appeal to others with their ideas.

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danwhitehead1 said:

	... What is truly frightening is the the left and the right seem to be in agreement on so many points.
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Peter Steele said:

RE: Why Dad's in heaven In his Communism: A Question of Morality, my late father spelled out the violation of the ten commandments by the Communists and said that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. He said that to the Christian Freedom Foundation on April 28, 1968 in NYC. It is in my book as John McManus read the ,manuscript. Dad's right and I feel that America home od the Mayflowers and Sons of the American Revolution is going to Hell in a Handbasket. I'm tired of media lies as God hates lies. BGen Peter F. Steele, USMC [Ret] for the late RADM Peter Steele, USN [Ret]

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