Posted on 12/16/2014 5:08:56 PM PST by Starman417
One of the torture boogeymen- one of the architects of the CIA program- did an interview with Megyn Kelly. His perspective and that of "Beale", really should be listened to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTzwa9S444c
For 9 years, it's been the critics who have been at liberty to shape the battle-space narrative on "torture" as it pertains to the CIA detention and interrogation program that began and ended on Bush's watch (not Obama's), exposed in 2005 by WaPo. And the critics continue to distort the narrative and feed into the worst imaginings and distorted perceptions of our enemies abroad as well as that of fellow Americans, here at home.
Without interviewing key officials, there's no context in the Feinstein Majority Views Report. I've read online comments from low information headline news readers who do not even realize it is a lopsided, non-bipartisan committee Report. "Torture" has been thrown around out there for so long now, that it's an accepted, unchallenged definition to many Americans (and global citizens). Yet, you know what? According to a number of recent polls, Americans still don't care. That's disheartening to the Kos Kiddies, who grumble most of these uncaring Americans must be church-goers.
The 524-page executive summary of the tabloid investigation reads like Democratic staffers data-mined then drew partisan observations without contextualizing. Imagine strangers going through your emails and then trying to make sense of it all without ever interviewing you about them.
The early days of the Program were chaotic. They were overwhelmed, under-staffed/trained to deal with setting up a competent detention program in the heyday of the war(s), immediately after OEF. So they were self-correcting as they went; and by Rodriguez' account, after the initial growing pains and after August 2002, the program was functioning smoothly and managed professionally. The Report mentions the abuses, but seems to fail in noting where corrective measures and reprimands were administered:
Michael Hayden, the CIA director from 2006 to 2009, told The Sunday Times that the report was “relentlessly accusatory” and the CIA had admitted to errors in the early years of the interrogations.“A case in point was a contractor [David Passaro] who used a flashlight to beat a detainee...it was reported immediately and he was prosecuted and convicted in North Carolina and was sentenced to [eight years] prison [in 2004]."
Similarly, the CIA had reacted swiftly when the Gul Rahman died of hypothermia. “The agency made a big mistake. “It put a young officer into a position for which we had not prepared him. The incident was immediately turned over to the Department of Justice. It has been investigated twice and each time prosecution was declined.”
Feinstein’s report concluded Rahman was not a terrorist but a victim of “mistaken identity”.
Hayden said outrage over rectal rehydration had been uninformed. “It was a medical procedure, not an interrogation technique.” Rather than using a needle or feeding through the nose, it “was considered to be the safest approach for a non-compliant detainee and so that’s why it was done”.
119 HVTDs were enrolled in the CIA Program. Of these, 24 were apparently wrongfully placed into it. Of the 119, 39 HVTs experienced some form of EIT. Of those 39, only 3 were ever given CIA swimming lessons. The last was KSM in 2003.
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
damn woman... let the man talk!!
He was an excellent speaker. Very real, righteously angry, direct and concise.
I certainly wanted to hear him more than her - imagine if the poor guy had been on O’Reilly!!! We would have heard two or three words in between BOR’s blathering.
ain't THAT the truth...
I enjoyed both evenings’ interviews.
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