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Tortured Logic – WaPo's Pre-emtive Takedown Of The "Second Wave"

…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 burden of proof to live up to. Here is the latest from the WaPo. As I said before, this is probably going flop even harder than the “WMD’s in Iraq” fiasco.

Torture…. Interrupted (Alert – Geek Stuff)

Well, I could (and probably will) go on and on about the tortured logic infecting the GOP, but my computer used to record and store my music is having a nervous breakdown. It’s a Windows XP machine, and has been running problem free for over two years, so I guess I’m overdue. Firefox keeps crashing, the internet connection disconnect without warning, and even the command line has become unstable. If you type “cmd” in the run box, the screen goes blank for a second and then … nothing; I’m back to the desktop.

So it looks like it’s time to reinstall XP. Too bad, because I had this computer tweaked to be a fine DAW. Oh Well. At I don’t have the dreaded “Blue Screen Of Death” to contend with.

Tortured Logic – Complicity And Cheney's "Second Wave" Memos.

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, then let’s see them. So how does the Obama administration respond????

OK.

First – Hillary.

You should know by now you don’t do obfuscation very well…. Does the phrase “I don’t recall” ring a bell ????

Second – Cheney. Come on!!! I can’t believe you don’t have a lackey somewhere in the CIA willing to leak a document or two favorable to the cause. It’s not like leaking documents is something so unfathomable or so beyond the realm of possibility for either the Cheneyites or the CIA. So, come on. Get that mole machine working.

Third – This is going to be a land-mine for certain Democrats on the hill. It’s already been revealed that Queen Nanci Pelosi knew about the use of these torture techniques since 2002, as did fellow Dem Jane Harmon. I’ve been saying for a few years now that the Dems, or at least key ones, knew about these policies from their inception. Why do you think Pelosi et. al. have been SO DAMNED RELUCTANT to make any move forward on getting to the bottom of torture policies that she claims to believe are so abhorrent. They were in on it – DUH!!! Many Dems are going to have some ‘splainin’ to do before this is through.

But getting back to my point. There are two likely endings to this particular episode. Either some memo will come out, one way or another, showing some plot was being talked about, money changed hands, but it was no where near a point where the terrorists even had a concrete plan or the resources tocarry it out. Keep in mind that the Bush / Cheney torture faction has proclaimed torture vital in order to prevent an “imminent” 24’ish attack. The little bit of info we do have on the so called “Second Wave” LA plot comes nowhere near that metric, and would be seriously moving the goalposts by the torturistas (fun word, I’m running with it). It will be almost as big a dud as the Super-Dooper Santorum WMD Memo of 2006.

What will more likely happen is that the Obama administration will say there is no document of the kind because… well… there really isn’t. It does not exist. This is a winning strategy, because it’s very hard to prove a negative. Regardless, the torturistas will be up in arms claiming Obama is hiding the truth, and we’ll have to listen to Rush / Hannity / Levin scream in protest about it for years after. And long term, it works too. It plants a shadow of doubt on the Obama administration and will give those prosecuted the chance to claim they were railroaded. It’s sort of the G Gordon Liddy / Ollie North approach. OK, some might end up going to jail for a while but in the end, they’ll get out and start their own radio shows…. Yay. Can’t wait for that.

Tortured Logic – Now They're Just Making S**t Up

My Favorite radio host, Mark Levin, was just on his buddy Sean Hannity’s radio show, proclaiming that the enhanced interrogations of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed resulted in the disruption of a terrorist plot to attack Los Angeles. Problem is, the plot was disrupted in 2002, and KSM was not captured until 2003. Levin is saying that there was a second plot that was thwarted, but there is on record of that anywhere online, just speculation. There is one memo dated May 2005 between Principal Deputy Attorney General Steven G. Bradbury and the senior deputy general counsel for the CIAJohn A. Rizzo that says there was a second plot discovered through torture, but it has no details, and seems rather empty considering there has never been any mention of specific circumstances of the “Second Wave” plot, which could have been used to bolster President Bushes rational for using these techniques. This has all the stench of the Super-Dooper Santorum WMD Memo of 2006, a super secret doc that was going to prove menacing WMD’s were found in Iraq, which turned out to be paper dud, though it did show him to be a complete idiot contribute to his loss in the 206 election.

And, remember, this IS the same Bush appointee led CIA that , in the past, has not been shown to be, well, honest, and denied for instance they ever had any tapes of interrogations, up until the moment that it was revealed they had destroyed at least two of these non-existent tapes. I wonder if any of those tapes involved sessions with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed cofessing the “Second Wave”. I guess we’ll never know.