Posted on 09/24/2006 5:17:10 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
On Fox News, Bill OReilly interviewed(video included) Brian Ross on the subject of coercive interrogation techniques.
I couldnt find a transcript online, so heres one I put together, just for my own reference. Maybe youll find it useful, too.
(Excerpt) Read more at mensnewsdaily.com ...
None of this is torture, and all of it works.
Interrogation works. The CIA is 100% sure.
Brian Ross is no fan of the Bush Administration. If he reported positive results, it pulls the rug out from under Kerry, etc.
Thanks for posting this. From a liberal newscaster at that. Of course waterboarding works, and it's a mind game, not physical torture.
From the article:
O: Can this hurt you if they continue to do it? Can it kill you? Waterboarding?
R: IF they continued it it could, but essentially it creates a gag reflex where you think you are about to die you think youre drowning youre not.
Just between you and me, anything that can kill me, and is in the control or discretion of someone that would just as soon see me dead, is not a mind game, it is torture..
That is to say, the immeadiate threat of death is torture, if only psychological ...
That being said, I have no problem whatsoever with torture if it gets the information we need..
The enemy is beheading our soldiers, setting them on fire, dragging them through the streets, hanging them from bridges, and "Frankly, my dear, I don't Give A DA*N" at this point about the Geneva Conventions..
It doesn't seem to me that anyone is abiding by the Geneva Conventions except the U.S. and their allies..
So I say, bring out "Grey's Anatomy", a scalpel, and a pair of battery cables..
Torture was good enough for the last 50,000 years, it's good enough for now..
Let me question these scum.I'm a back to basics kind of guy-all I need is my trusty blowtorch and a pair of pliers.
Uhh...Brian Ross.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1699197/posts
This is a thread about the detainees who were left at Abu Gharib after the Americans left. They are heard screaming and begging for the Americans to come back, BTW the ICRC has stopped visiting that location due to "security issues" ha!
I have a feeling that regardless what the outcome of this absurd "tourture" debate is , certain prisoners will be "taking care of" in order to get information. There will be a public face in this all but behind VERY closed doors Im sure CIA will do what is necessary to get vital info. at least I hope this is the case.
Translation: 20-30 seconds is the most most people can take of this technique, its that effective.
Bingo , give this man a cigar. We have a winner.
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