[Mr. Brightside]

Enhanced interrogations have been authorized for
about a dozen high value al Qaeda targets -- Khalid
Sheik Mohammed among them. According to the sources,
all of these have confessed , none of them has
died , and all of them remain incarcerated.

[cripplecreek]

OK I admit it. Reading that triggered a bout of giggling.

[ThreePuttinDude]

bttt

[finnman69]

1 to 6 pale in comparison to being dragged behind a truck and set on fire

[martin_fierro]

gee, that's just too damn bad.

[COEXERJ145]

The detainees were also forced to listen to rap artist Eminem's "Slim Shady" album.

Okay, now that is just plain wrong! LOL!

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Well I would consider listening to "eminem" as over the line in torture...bwahahahahaha!

[digger48]

10 bucks says Ted Kennedy has PAID to have hookers make him squeal like a 3 year old girl

[A CA Guy]

They are still trying to hide the Yoko Ono singing torture.

That's right, peace through Yoko's vocals. With her we can declare the terms of peace with terrorists.

[GSlob]

Hooking the perp to an air compressor and inflating him a bit is a very effective technique. It leaves no traces besides the perp looking a bit puffed.

[neodad]

What? No panties on the head?

[spinestein]

Talking heads on the left have been trying to convince the public for the last several years that coercive interrogation techniques don't work, but now we're relearning what's been known for decades (a lot of it from KGB reports): nobody can withstand even a short time of professional interrogation without giving up ALL that they know.

Torture doesn't even enter into it. Making the prisoner uncomfortable and manipulating them psychologically in specific ways is all it takes to make them babble.

[Candor7]

I am SCHOCKED!

Whatever will those nasty CIA agents do next, whip them with freshly steamed pork noodles?

Shame!

[SERKIT]

John McCain and others are suffering from "Collective Stockholm Syndrome by Proxy". The enemy wins because they have established heartfelt sympathy among us. The terorist sympathizers are now in love with would-be captors, actual captors, beheaders, and criminals. This is a bunch of crap!

We need to establish a "third way" in dealing with all of this nonsense. The "criminal prosecution" tactics failed under Clinton.

The recognition of head-loppers as being worthy of the Geneva Conventions is failing under Bush-McCain. The Geneva Conventions contemplated state-on-state wars with uniformed combatants and allowed for repatriation at the conclusion of the conflict. Since we are battling a non-state ideology bent on our total destruction, it just doesn't work (can you say asymmetric war?).

Let's step away from the application of the Geneva Conventions and apply a third-way justice system that is NOT simply a criminal court, and NOT a bastardized military tribunal - neither fits. We need a separate system in dealing with the head-lopping terrorists whereby we can play kinda dirty...somewhere between becoming head-loppers ourselves but also allowing an interrogator to place panties on the head for intimidation or not be bound to providing Korans to terrorists and lemon-chicken prepared under Islamic proscription. Otherwise, throw in the towel.

[Fairview]

Aw, my heart is breaking. I'm just so so so so sad for the poor fellows.

[ODC-GIRL]

Perhaps we should get REALLY tough and send in the French taunters of Monty Python fame.

"I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."

That might do the trick.

[VOA]

CIA's Harsh Interrogation Techniques Described
(Khalid Sheik Mohammed BEGGED to confess)

It would be interesting to see if post-election polling reveals
that revelation of the treatment of KSM et al....
may have picked up votes for Republicans in this election.

[bpjam]

Great, somebody else leaking our techniques so that Al Qaeda can just watch ABC or read the NYT and start training to withstand those techniques. Fantastic. Maybe we can just email the details of our methods over to Al Jazeera so that all of the AQ guys hiding in the caves can see them as well.

And the NYT is printing leaked portions of NIEs again. Apparently, there is no secret in this country (that involves Bush) which the MSM doesn't feel an overwhelming compulsion to print or air. We might as well just abandon the idea of having 'intelligence' in the US since the agencies involved don't have enough employees who care more about their countries safety than they do about harming Bush.

[raftguide]

I smell a Miranda warning coming for captured terrorists: "You have the right to remain silent...You have the right to have Al Jeereza (?) at your side before any interrogation!"

[spinestein]

Ron Jeremy's long lost brother

[JasonC]

I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just.