Me and a fellow blogger have been having some good back and forth on the torture dilemma. The pro-torture side is stuck on the definition and procedural aspects of the interrogations. They’re stuck on semantics. Lawyers for the President redefined the techniques as non-torture, so presto, it’s not torture. Yet the same “enhanced methods” we […]
…and it’s back in January. Their assessment – same as mine – there doesn’t seem to be much to corroborate the alleged seriousness of the “Second Wave” attacks. And remember, the pro-torture advocates themselves have established the “ticking time-bomb” scenario as the metric used to justify torturing detainees, so the pro-torture Republicans have a high […]
I assure you I’m not writing these just to bash Republicans. This YouTube Vid is relevant to my previous post regarding the “Second Wave” plot, supposedly foiled by torturing Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. I don’t believe that there was an imminent attack, but if there was something legit that Cheney’s classified documents would show was disrupted, […]
As most now know, memos written by then Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee have become know as “The Torture Memos” because they justify the use of torture harsh interrogation techniques on GWOT detainees. Here is the conclusion from on of the first memos, written. For the foregoing reasons, we conclude that torture as defined in […]
Here’s the headline for this story. “Harsh techniques Brought Good Info” This is a line deleted from a memo written by Adm. Dennis C. Blair, Obama’s national intelligence director. The Rush echo-chamber will surely be running with it 24/7, or until the next thing comes along. The story actually goes on to raise doubt about […]
“If somebody can be water-tortured six times a day, then it isn’t torture.” Rush Limbaugh. April 20, 2009 “If someone can listen to Rush torture logic for three hours a day, then it isn’t logic” Sonicfrog April 20, 2009 On the drive home from sub’ing today, I waded through Sean Hannity’s and Fred Thompson’s radio […]