Comfortable?
- From: Islander <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:56:22 -0700
In responding to questions about the terror suspect interrogation legislation from the press today on the occasion of the visit of South Korean President Roh, Bush stated:
"It is very important for the American people to understand that in order to protect this country, we must be able to interrogate people who have information about future attacks.
"So the question I ask about any piece of legislation is, will the program provide legal clarity so that our professionals will feel comfortable about going forward with the program? That's what I'm going to ask."
Since when is our legal system about making CIA interrogators comfortable? This is simply Bush-speak about providing some form of legal cover for what were illegal actions by those civilian employees of the CIA who feel that they are beyond the law. It is becoming increasingly clear that all the propaganda about how we do not torture prisoners and how the CIA does not need to resort to torture were lies.
But, we knew that already, didn't we?
Meanwhile, the Bush administration has not been able to point to a single example of how torture provided useful information. Bush's attempt at that in citing the "intelligence" obtained from Abu Zubaydah was actually already known from other open sources six months earlier.
Is there any example that can be cited where exceeding the limits in the Geneva Convention actually saved American lives?
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