I watched part of the interview this morning. Lauer was going on and on and on about whether or not we tortured the Al Qaeda prisoners who had been in CIA custody before they were recently turned over to Gitmo.
Lauer was particularly incensed that Khalid Sheik Mohammed had been water boarded -- strapped to a board and made to think he would be drowned.
He and the President were literally going toe to toe over it. GWB was taking no guff. The President finally made it personal and said he was doing everything possible to "protect your [Lauer's] family." Lauer looked like the idiot he is. As for me, at that point I was hoping Dubya would deck the fool, but since he couldn't, I turned the interview off.
Lauer was objecting to our waterboarding KSM? Oh, brother. Say no more.
#1. We waterboard our Special Ops guys to teach them how to withstand interrogation in the event they are captured.
#2. If there was ever a terrorist that SHOULD be tortured, it's KSM. And, as I recall, the president said in a speech last week that attacks were averted as a result of KSM's interrogation.
What concerns me is that since the Lindsey Grahams of the world went ballistic over Abu Graib, which, as far as I can tell didn't involve one second of torture for any jihadist, is that the left will not permit this kind of interrogation to go on in the future.
And CIA agents involved in interrogations won't push because they will fear litigation.
And whenever one of the malignant leftists and even a few Republicans talk about how we don't want our soldiers mistreated in the event they're captured, I wish just one reporter would ask when was the last time that our military was treated according to the Geneva Convention? I think the answer is never.
Since the media is filled with Bush hating leftists, and I have become a closet conspiracy theorist when it comes to their efforts against this President, I'm wondering if it's deliberate so that the full impact of the dressing down that the Commander in Chief and Leader of the Free World gave the worm Lauer isn't as obvious.
Lauer would really lose his mind if he knew what I think should be tolerated when trying to get information out of these muslim terrorist pigs.