By David M. Dastych ——Bio and Archives--August 28, 2009
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I don't believe in "torture" as a method for extracting information should be used on everyone but if aggressively interrogating people that are able to build armies of people willing to strap a bomb to their body and walk into a shopping center and attempt to kill as many people as possible I am all for it! If it saves the lives of 1 or 100 Americans, I am all for it. Only a lawyer who became president would even bring this up. A leader leads by pointing the way forward. A lawyer builds his case by pointing out everything the "other guy" did wrong. NO, they did their best in protecting this country, and we should thank them for it. It may not have been the best thing for Humanity or of course for Al Qaida operatives. The Obama mandate to please all of our former enemies and terror loving adherents by revealing, punishing and jailing the alleged CIA abusers will only incite more violence against US soldiers and other noncombatant targets in the future. And persecution and prosecution will only chill future attempts to obtain valuable information by those whose job is to discern current and future attacks, they will be hampered by the thought---will I be prosecuted for "Saving America" from future 9-11 attacks. The current Report on Interrogations Describes "Threat to Kill Detainee's Children" , wow - such a startling revelation, how horrible of them. But 2,933 persons ( from 90 countries ) died on 9-11-2001.........in order to prevent such catastrophes. They ( CIA ) engaged in behaviors that did not amount to the loss of life on 9-11-2001. There perseverence in interrogating the terrorists was warranted.......I wonder if the apologists will scream and shout prosecute the CIA officials ......when a terrorist nuclear or chemical weapons device is detonated / released in the U.S. in the future. Wake up.....despite Obama's "let's be nice to the terrorists and hope they will go away," choose peaceful means of dissent or become naturalized US citizens pursuing profit over wanton murder.....it's not going to happen in Obama's lifetime. And what's with this following the Army's 19 points on humane and gentle interrogation techniques, it will certainly be a BUST. Terrorists only respond to Terror."
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David Dastych passed away Sept.11, 2010.
David was a former Polish intelligence operative, who served in the 1960s-1980s and was a double agent for the CIA from 1973 until his arrest in 1987 by then-communist Poland on charges of espionage. Dastych was released from prison in 1990 after the fall of communism and in the years since has voluntarily helped Western intelligence services with tracking the nuclear proliferation black market in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. After a serious injury in 1994 confined him to a wheelchair, Dastych began a second career as an investigative journalist covering terrorism, intelligence and organized crime.
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