Woodward and Bernstein, Call Your Office: Washington Post Now Irrelevant to the Left

NewsReal Blog ^ | September 2, 2009 | David Forsmark

[HorowitzianConservative]

If a dead tree edition of the Washington Post falls on the front porch, and the rest of the media ignores its top investigative story, has it really made a sound?

After former Vice President Dick Cheney appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, the MSNBC bloviators were all atwitter and aghast. Among the canards they shouted back at Cheney’s calmly delivered stiletto jabs of facts was “Torture doesn’t work! It doesn’t, it just doesn’t because we say it doesn’t!”

As we will see, Matthews, Olbermann, Maddow and Co., will drag any ambiguous quote by a Republican—or someone who once worked for a Republican—into the argument to “prove” their point. They will even quote out of context some portions of documents which disprove their point.

However, they are studiously ignoring a major story by the newspaper they once considered their Holy Writ, the paper that made many of them want to be leftist “journalists” and fight the power in the first place.

Here are some key early paragraphs from the story, How a Detainee Became an Asset by Peter Finn, Jody Warrick and Judy Tate:

“These scenes provide previously unpublicized details about the transformation of the man known to U.S. officials as KSM from an avowed and truculent enemy of the United States into what the CIA called its "preeminent source" on al-Qaeda. This reversal occurred after Mohammed was subjected to simulated drowning and prolonged sleep deprivation, among other harsh interrogation techniques.

[Old Sarge]

Two words: Lefortovo Prison.

Our methods are pikers by comparison.

[a fool in paradise]

They will say he was the exception to the rule. Except it is a lie by omission since he was the exception to the rule to begin with, a number of the “horrible” techniques we have heard about (like waterboarding and making empty threats on his family) were done to a handful of people and he was in that group. What was the physical harm?

If lingerng sychological effects are the problem, then psy ops are out, as are long time detention period. And those decrying the techniques didn’t speak out about psy ops used at Waco.

[domenad]

PIUNG

[editor-surveyor]

Is that a Chinese ping?

[peeps36]

The same group of liberal bed wetters would support torture 100% if it was done under a democrat administration. Politics trumps our safety , the lives of soldiers and everything else imaginable in the tiny minds of these people. Nothing is more important then liberal politics to this group of morons.