Posted on 02/12/2008 7:07:35 PM PST by Sub-Driver
9/11 mastermind coerced with Starbucks treats
By staff writers
UNLIMITED food and frappuccinos replaced waterboarding and sleep depravation in order to build a case against the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.
FBI and military investigators gave Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and five other men, who have been charged with murder, food whenever they were hungry and Starbucks coffee as part of their interrogations as part of “rapport-building” methods, the Washington Post has reported.
Officials told the newspaper that investigators used friendly methods – including letting the men decide when interviews would start – in the hope of the prisoners confirming information they had already given to CIA officials through “coercive methods”.
US law prohibits the admission of any evidence obtained through torture, which includes waterboarding - a controversial interrogation method used by the CIA to simulate the experience of drowning.
"The (investigators) went in and said that they'd love to talk to them, that they knew what the men had been through, and that none of that stuff was going to be done to them," one official told the Washington Post.
“It was made very clear to them that they were in a very different environment, that they were not with the CIA anymore.
“There was an extensive period of making sure they understood it had to be voluntary on their part.”
According to the newspaper, the FBI and the military wanted to distance themselves from any CIA interrogation methods and treated the men as near-equals.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
The food police will be filing a complaint on this.
“Come to the Dark Side. We have maple scones.”
Why not just shoot these guys up with whatever drug does the trick for as long as needed to extract information? Then prosecute them in a military court and begin the hangings - one a week with all other Islamofascists in the front row center to watch their fellow killers get their necks stretched. Then, each week, reinterrogate the surviving slimebags and see if they can produce more info to keep their skins a little bit longer. Nice and clean - no torture, no nothing that leaves any marks other than a slight drug induced hangover for a day or two.
My guess is that it was the promise of a nice tart..
If you really want to torture them with Starbucks burnt coffee just make them pay for it.
...or 72.
You see, water boarding works.....hehehehe
What no pork roll sandwiches? Barbecue pork ribs?
Ah the irony of the libs’ fave, Starbucks, being used as “torture”! Waiting for Starbucks to sue...
Just damn.
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kinder, gentler . . .
Didn’t Noriega get Cindy Lauper music blared at him for weeks on end?
Noriega ought to complain.
Real men — women’s panties and Starbucks coffee.
Its part of the process. Break them down, endear yourself to them and they become to your side. Simplistic explanation interrogation techniques. Think Patty Hearst. Only this time for good, not evil.
They made them an outrageos promise of tea and strumpets, but that was refused. The effendis wanted goats..
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