Posted on 03/12/2010 5:52:00 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A top aide to former US president George W. Bush has defended the use of harsh interrogation techniques, insisting he is "proud" of the methods and they had helped prevent terrorist attacks.
Karl Rove also told the BBC in an interview broadcast Thursday that he did not believe waterboarding -- a simulated drowning method -- amounted to torture.
"I'm proud that we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists and gave us valuable information that allowed us to foil plots," he said.
"I am proud that we kept the world safer than it was by the use of these techniques. They are appropriate, they are in conformity with our international requirements and with US law," he added.
"Flying airplanes into Heathrow and into London... bringing down aircraft over the Pacific, flying an airplane into the tallest building in Los Angeles" were all terror plots that were thwarted by tough interrogation, he insisted.
Asked specifically whether he thought waterboarding was torture, he replied: "No it's not.
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As far as I’m concerned every torture technique should be on the table. If that saves my kid from getting hurt interogaters can peel skin off terrorists to get information they need to keep our toops and ourselves safe. This is a war not a tennis match we are involved in.
ditto
Under the current liberal definition of torture that action would not have been permitted.
Perception is reality...If they think they might die or worse they are more apt to talk...
As well he should be.
The only thing he should be ashamed of is not allowing ANY interrogation procedures to be used.
I kinda like the Jack Bauer “9mm hole in the leg” approach...
I find it interest that about the same time Libs started worrying about "torture" in the US, the State Department made Saddam's prisons off limits over here. I was billeted next to the prison where female political prisoners were kept. People who had been in them said you could see blood and chains on the wall and chains suspended from the ceiling.
Interesting. Wonder why they made those prisons off limits??
Good Lord...How many mass graves have been found so far in Iraq?...Yes they are such delicate creatures...
The ONLY thing that you need to know about rove is that he “HAS SYMPATHY FOR rham emanuel AND obama”. Rove is no solution... but he WAS ONE of the problems.
LLS
RYMB!
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