BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL AID TABLE
CRANKY CLINTON CAN'T STOP LYING.
SHE'S BEEN CAUGHT AGAIN SAYING SHE DID NOT KNOW WHERE BERNIE SANDERS WAS WHEN SHE WAS LEADING HER LOSING BATTLE ON HEALTHCARE.
SO SHE'S A LIAR AND SENILE.
Oh, how the US government manipulates information.
Wednesday, Cheryl Pellerin with DOD News or Propaganda, wrote the following:
Leaders of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant who are captured by the Expeditionary Targeting Force and held for questioning will be detained by the force only for short periods of time and the detention will be coordinated with Iraqi authorities, a Pentagon spokesman said today.
Navy Capt. Jeff Davis told defense reporters here that ETF missions, first announced in October, are conducting operations as part of the coalition fight there against ISIL.
“One of the missions that we anticipate they will do is to capture a small number of ISIL leaders,” Davis said. “The detention of these [leaders] we anticipate will be very short-term [and] coordinated with Iraqi authorities.”
Well that's interesting where did it come from?
It came from the Defense Dept trying to seize the narrative.
Wednesday morning, they were still concerned that the US press might actually actually get off their lazy and useless asses and do their damn job.
The Defense Dept should never have sweated it because the US press never does their job.
Tuesday the Senate Armed Services Committee held a hearing which we covered in Tuesday's Iraq snapshot, "Magical Bernie trumps Tired Hillary" and in Thursday's Iraq snapshot.
Three generals testified before the Committee, Gen Lloyd Austin (CENTCOM), Gen Joseph Vogel (Special Operations Command) and Gen David Rodriguez (US Africa Command). The Chair of the Committee is Senator John McCain, the Ranking Member is Senator Jack Reed.
What had the Defense Dept sweating bullets was the following exchange from that hearing.
Senator Kelly Ayotte: I wanted to follow up on an important question. Both General Rodriquez and General Votel, this is something I've actually asked both your predecessors about and my concern is if we capture Ayman al-Zawahiri or Baghdadi -- [Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi tomorrow where will we detain these individuals under long term law of war detention -- most importantly to interrogate them to find out all that we need to know about al Qaeda and ISIS? And as I asked your predecessor going back to 2011, I asked -- I asked General [Carter] Hamm, your predecessor in AFRICOM, what would happen if tomorrow we captured a member of al Qaeda in Africa? And you know what he told me? He said I'm going to need some lawyerly help on answering that one. I also asked the same of Admiral [William] McRaven, your predecessor, General Votel. And he said to me that it would be very helpful if there was actually a facility that was designated for long term, law of war detention and interrogation. So I guess my question to both of you is tomorrow, if we capture these individuals, given the phenomenal work that the men and women who serve underneath you do ever day, where are we going to interrogate them? Do you know that? Do you know what you would do with them? Especially if you wanted to have a long term interrogation of them?
Gen Joseph Votel: Senator, in my experiences, we've looked at operations where we're actually going to detains somebody we have had a plan in place before we actually conducted the operation for how we were going to potentially detain them and what their legal disposition would be -- whether that was back in the US courts --
Senator Kelly Ayotte: No, General, we just recently captured someone in ISIS and as I understand it, they're not being -- they're being held short term and then they're going to be turned back to the Kurds. So what about long term detention? You would agree that long term interrogation is quite helpful, for example, in gathering the information that we needed to get [Osama] bin Laden. That's what worries me
Gen Joseph Votel: I --
Senator Kelly Ayotte: What do we do in a long term setting? Do we know?
Gen Joseph Votel: I--I would agree that there is a requirement for long term detention, Senator.
Senator Kelly Ayotte: And do we know where that would be now?
Gen Joseph Votel: I-I don't know that. That is a politica -- a policy decision that I think is being debated.
Senator Kelly Ayotte: I think it's a policy decision that has basically never been made under this administration. It's one that has been left up in the air which means it's left up in the air in a way I think undermines our national security interest.
So a captured member of the Islamic State can't be held and will be turned back over to the Kurds.
You'd think the CBS EVENING NEWS would open with that news or NBC NIGHTLY NEWS or . . .
No one wanted to touch it.
The news was, for those who can't catch it, in Iraq a member of the Islamic State was captured, the US briefly interrogated him and would now be handing him back to the Kurds. This was due to not having a facility and this did not seem, to Gen Joseph Vogel, to be the appropriate thing to do.
You can disagree with him, agree with him or have no opinion on what should be done.
But it is news.
And news is what we're supposed to debate and discuss in a democracy in order to be informed citizens participating in our self-governance.
The day after the hearing, THE NEW YORK TIMES, for example, was front-paging 'news' like "Fasting Diets Are Gaining Acceptance" by Anahad O'Connor.
You know who does the most fasting in America?
The extreme poor.
It's not 'trendy' or 'buzz worthy,' so it doesn't make it onto the front page of THE NEW YORK TIMES -- or inside.
Nor does news that really matters like the Tuesday Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.
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