In his speech, Cheney mentioned 9/11 about 30 times — for reasons that by this stage are obvious to all. Referring specifically to waterboarding, Cheney said that waterboardee Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, “the mastermind of 9/11 … also boasted about beheading Daniel Pearl.”
(Here, I thought, is a really good example of “disingenuous” — a nice concrete example for my grandson. For the only thing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed did NOT take responsibility for, after being waterboarded 183 times, was climate change.)
Friday, May 22, 2009
The Value of Information Gained from Torture
Former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern has offered a most succinct explanation of the value of the kind of information that is to be gained from torture:
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Isn't it interesting though that KSM by some wild random chance just made-up a wild story about an attack on Los Angeles while being waterboarded that ended up accidentally by total coincidence preventing an attack on Los Angeles... wow that is some freaky random stuff.
But I agree, torture is wrong... he should never have survived long enough to be tortured.
Post a Comment