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To meddle in the government of society and to speak about it is the greatest business and, so to speak, the only pleasure that an American knows.... An American does not know how to converse, but he discusses; he does not discourse, but he holds forth. -ADT
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"According to CIA sources, Ibn al Shaykh al Libbi, after two weeks of enhanced interrogation, made statements that were designed to tell the interrogators what they wanted to hear . . . al Libbi had been subjected to each of the progressively harsher techniques in turn and finally broke after being water boarded and then left to stand naked in his cold cell overnight where he was doused with cold water at regular intervals.
" His statements became part of the basis for the Bush administration claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biochemical weapons. Sources tell ABC that it was later established that al Libbi had no knowledge of such training or weapons and fabricated the statements because he was terrified of further harsh treatment." (Emphasis added.)
I'm glad to see that torturing people is working as well as it is. As the President would say, it's hard work.
Of course, "the United States does not engage in torture." (Bottom of article.) And since this is so clearly true, we don't need a law that bans it. And, if we do have to have a law, we need to allow intelligence agencies to torture, according to Dick Cheney, but, of course, we don't torture. Couldn't some newspaper (or all of them) call out the administration on the sheer chutzpah of repeatedly lying with a straight face?
I'm sorry. I mean, "un-coddling bad-thinkers." Newspeak doubleplusgood!
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