Title: Scheurer on BBC: Ex-CIA defends CIA torture (09Dec14) Source:
BBC from Youtube URL Source:http://youtu.be/PuOMxxjE8S0 Published:Dec 11, 2014 Author:liarpoliticians Post Date:2014-12-11 14:28:37 by Deasy Keywords:scheuer, enhanced, interrogation, rendition Views:136 Comments:2
Poster Comment:
Questionable statements: 1) Obama stopped the program in 2008. 2) The procedures work.
Michael Scheuer, ex-head of CIA's Osama Bin Laden unit
At 2:26, Scheuer speaks of the program that he conducted at Clinton's direction during his administration and of the terror suspects being sent then to foreign countries for incarceration where they likely would be tortured.
John Patrick O'Neill (February 6, 1952 – September 11, 2001) was an American counter-terrorism expert, who worked as a special agent and eventually a Special Agent in Charge in the Federal Bureau of Investigation until late 2001.
By 1998, O'Neill had become focused on Osama bin Laden, and created an Al Qaeda desk in his division.
O'Neill was pleased to be assigned as commander of the FBI's investigation into the USS Cole bombing in October 2000. However, upon arriving in Yemen, he complained about inadequate security. As his team investigated, O'Neill came into conflict with Barbara Bodine, the U.S. ambassador to Yemen. The two had widely divergent views on how to handle searches of Yemeni property and interviews with citizens and government officials, and they only grew further apart as time progressed.
After two months in Yemen, O'Neill returned to New York. He hoped to return to Yemen to continue the investigation, but was blocked by Bodine and others [My note: iirc from other research, "others" included Scheuer]; the dispute made the US press. Following threats against the remaining FBI investigators, FBI Director Freeh withdrew the team, on O'Neill's recommendation, in June 2001.
Michael Scheuer, described in 2006 by the Washington Times as "a 22-year veteran with the CIA, [who] created and served as the chief of the agency’s Osama bin Laden unit at the Counterterrorist Center" called O'Neill and Richard Clarke "two principal authors of September 11". This statement he bases on the refusal of Clarke and O'Neill to agree to his offers to have bin Laden assassinated. [...] Scheuer said of O'Neill, [...] He once told me that he and the FBI would oppose an operation to capture bin Laden and take him to a third country for incarceration.
O'Neill was pushed out of the Bureau in 2001. He became the head of security at the World Trade Center, where he died at age 49 in the September 11, 2001 attacks.
At the National 9/11 Memorial, O'Neill is memorialized at the North Pool, on Panel N-63.
Edited formatting + for an addition to the last sentence of paragraph 5 in the Wikipeida segment on O'Neill.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
1) Interesting linkage, thanks. 2) It seems that Michael Scheuer was caught off-guard in this interview. 3) There is still a lot of material here vetting the official narrative of 9/11.