Great read. Thanks!
Jose, if you authorized torture, you are a pig and have assisted in ruining this country.
As a JAG Officer, I cannot tell you how many times I taught in Geneva-Hague Convention classes that, despite how other heathens conduct themselves, Americans are better than that. Our eschewing of torture as required by the Conventions we are signatories to caused many prisoners of war to prefer to be captured and neutralized because they were assured of decent treatment. Once you betrayed our principles, there was no reason for anyone to cooperate with us.
Jose, you can go to hell and take your depraved “program” with you. You made every JAG Officer a liar and we hate that.
If it didn’t work, they wouldn’t use it. It’s a waste of everyone’s time...and time was likely of the essence in most/some cases.
The left’s opposition is a good example of the idiotic spin the left puts on everything it doesn’t like: rather than admit that it’s effective but argue that we shouldn’t use these interrogation techniques based on moral grounds, they adamantly argue that it’s ineffective, destroying their own credibility. They do exactly the same thing to discredit their positions on the environment and economics.
You waterboard a man, Khmer Rouge style, he will tell you everything he knows. Everything. Every time. Every man.
If he is first cautioned that any info he gives up, if found to be un true...will result in additional, punitive board time, he will only tell the truth.
100% of the time, without fail.
Zero Dark Thirty may not have been how it happened exactly, but it's close enough. The essential message of that movie... Waterboarding worked and Obama can't make a decision. That Jessica Chastain chick was pretty awesome looking too.
God preserve the memory of CIA agent Johnnie Mike Spann, who was essentially torn to death by islamist savages in Afghanistan.