Obama admits CIA 'tortured some folks'

theguardian.com

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It doesn't make sense to fire Brennan for starting the investigation that uncovered the misconduct.

Does anyone want to fire Brennan for starting an investigation?

I thought they wanted Brennan fired for spying on congress and then lying to congress about spying on them.

Well how do you know he had anything to do with it? He is responsible for it either way, but he may not have known about out and may not have lied.

How long has Brennan been in office? According to wikipedia, since March of 2013. Hmmmm... this is long enough that he should have known what was going on.

'yeah, we ran few secret concentration camps in Europe, no biggie'

I don't think you can call something a concentration camp unless it has at least 40 people. Did these?

They are still abhorrent, but the purpose of a concentration camp is to control some ethnic group on a massive scale, not to indefinitely detain people they are capturing individually. So, say you're fighting a bunch of Dutch guerrillas. You round up all the Dutch civilians into concentration camps so that the guerrillas don't have anyone to go to for food.

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