Thursday, April 23, 2009

Noblesse oblige


Condoleezza Rice, President George W. Bush's Secretary of State, personally approved a CIA request to use "waterboarding" and other harsh interrogation techniques.

he verbally agreed to allow the methods to be used on Abu Zubaydah, an al-Qaeda suspect, in July 2002, a Senate report has revealed.

Miss Rice's role in was outlined in a narrative released by the Senate Intelligence Committee as the controversy over alleged torture by the CIA continued to rage. he information indicates that the programme was approved at the highest levels of the Bush administration.

The new timeline suggests Miss Rice played a more significant role than she acknowledged in written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee submitted in the autumn.

It remains unclear, however, who inside the Bush administration first floated the idea of using "waterboarding" – simulated drowning – and other "enhanced" techniques against terrorist suspects in the months after the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.

The Senate Intelligence Committee's timeline came a day after the Senate Armed Services Committee released a detailed exhaustive report positing links between the CIA's harsh interrogation programme and abuses of prisoners at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in Afghanistan and Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

Daily revelations about the interrogation programme have followed Mr Obama's decision to release four US Justice Department memos last Thursday.

The memos, running to 126 pages, were written by officials in Mr Bush's Justice Department and contained explicit details of the CIA's methods of extracting information from al-Qaeda suspects between 2002 and 2005.

They revealed that emerged that the highly controversial technique of "waterboarding" had been used 266 times on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah, two senior al-Qaeda prisoners.

After initially indicating he opposed any prosecutions, on Tuesday he said he was open to congressional investigations of Bush administration officials and possible criminal charges.

According to the new timeline, which compiles legal advice provided by the Bush administration to the CIA, Miss Rice personally conveyed the Bush administration's approval for waterboarding of Zubaydah to George Tenet, then CIA Director, in July 2002.

In the autumn, Miss Rice stated to the Senate Armed Services Committee that she had attended meetings where the CIA interrogation request was discussed but could not recall details.

Days after Miss Rice spoke to Mr Tenet, the Justice Department approved the use of waterboarding in a top secret memo. Abu Zubaydah was subjected to waterboarding some 83 times in August 2002.

VIA...Telegraph

Thursday, April 16, 2009

off Topic Playoffs Post

Im really looking forward to the postseason and getting this championship back to LA..Lebron can get the MVP thats not of my concern he deserves it totally focused on the ring so i can walk down figeroa and go wild..in a respectable way..this video has me hyped ecstatically..

Frontline Report..The Ghost Plane

This was a very good informative depiction into the depths of Rendition im using this info for the report..Frontline World Extraordinary Rendition..Click on Link

Saturday, April 4, 2009

A Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Waste!!






Honda has demonstrated another milestone in man's attempts to control machines by the power of thought alone.This Goes to show you how advance technologically we've become, A contribution to the already outstanding work Japanese developers have become in the world.Sort of reminds me as something as Imaginary like the X-men movies now an Actualization. Using a helmet-like device that measures a person's brain activity and sends signals to the machine, Honda showed how a researcher could make its celebrity robot Asimo move simply by concentrating on the movement.Honda said the technology was not quite ready for a live demonstration because of possible distractions in the person's thinking. ASIMO can perform the motions correctly in 90.6 percent of cases - a record in the field of BMI technology - the scientists told a Tokyo news conference.This is Only a small break-through in the possibilities of the developments as Honda hopes to use this Robot to help people do many duties like Serving dishes and watering plants most objectives around the home.still seems a little Unsubstantial in people believing it works but only time will tell how we could very soon have our robot speak for us..

NOt So Obvious


the most modest and unpretentious way of seeing into the sky.. designed By ENESS For Those with curiosity of the Universe This photo Shows us the future of exploration and most interactive telescope.This Design of telescope shows many shapes or forms unlike our originals, it can seem so contrasting as if space aliens came down and left and forgot it here.One may look at this photo as if the woman represents us and our planet looking outward for means to our existence or simply a new way into the vision of space.Its called the" Humble Telescope" metaphorically speaking as this particular design shows us charisma, beauty, and such effective use.inside the telescope exists a 3D simulation of our entire known universe. Pointing the telescope in any direction immediately shows us what exists in that area of space, so now we can get a greater understanding of where the planets are and where we live in the Milky Way.Overall In today's world we have more now than ever the tools into these sort of developments probably more since the age of Galileo Galilei, major philosopher, scientist and innovator who played a huge role in the science revolution, their is great use to fill our need of awareness outside this world and more understandability.