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'... [Osama was] engaged in a firefight with those that entered the area of the house he was in.' (5/3/2011) [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/world/asia/04raid.html] | '... [Osama was] engaged in a firefight with those that entered the area of the house he was in.' (5/3/2011) [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/world/asia/04raid.html] | ||
=='''Extraordinary rendition'''== | |||
Supporting the practise | |||
'I think it’s an absolutely vital tool. I have been intimately familiar now over the past decade with the cases of rendition that the U.S. Government has been involved in.' (12/5/2005) [http://www.salon.com/2008/11/16/brennan/] | |||
=='''Torture'''== | |||
Strongly advocating for torture | |||
'There have been a lot of information that has come out from these interrogation procedures that the agency has in fact used against the real hard-core terrorists.' (November 2011) [http://www.salon.com/2008/11/16/brennan/] | |||
Revision as of 12:22, 6 July 2015
Drone strikes
Claiming there were no collateral deaths...3 months after 42 Pakistani civilians were killed
'I can tell you about the operations that the U.S has been involved in in the past year, there has not been a single collateral death.' (6/29/2011) [1]
Backtracking on CIA Senate hacking accusations
Falsely claiming the CIA did not access Senate computers
'As far as the allegations of the CIA hacking into Senate computers, nothing could be further from the truth, ... We wouldn’t do that. I mean, that’s just beyond the, you know, the scope of reason in terms of what we do.' (4/11/2014) [2]
Abbotobad Operation
Lying about Osama having a weapon
'... [Osama was] engaged in a firefight with those that entered the area of the house he was in.' (5/3/2011) [3]
Extraordinary rendition
Supporting the practise
'I think it’s an absolutely vital tool. I have been intimately familiar now over the past decade with the cases of rendition that the U.S. Government has been involved in.' (12/5/2005) [4]
Torture
Strongly advocating for torture
'There have been a lot of information that has come out from these interrogation procedures that the agency has in fact used against the real hard-core terrorists.' (November 2011) [5]