Washington Post: CIA interrogations verging on inhumane

Ha'aretz ^ | Last update - 08:08 26/12/2002 | Reuters

[mjaneangels@aolcom]

I can not believe that the Compost finally wrote a story about my tax dollars going to work for all Americans.

[Colorado Doug]

Paragraph #3 clearly states prisoners are forced to stand or sit for hours.

I don't know. That's some harsh business. My mother used to use that on me, worse still, I might have been grounded for a week or two after.

[yellowroses]

I think we should do like the Russians did in Moscow. They used pig carcuses as shrouds for the terrorists bodies. Then publicly dumped them all into a big, deep hole.

No one gets into paradise like that. Maybe it'll make them think twice about dying for Allah......

[smoking camels]

I was also referring to my preferred method of dealing with the liberals I meet in life. I have a different method for phony conservatives like you.

[ex 98C MI Dude]

"What we've got here is... failure to communicate..."
And that is exactly how the leftist media want it. They then may blame Bush for failing to see the "signs". And of course get a dig in at the military.

[Petronius]

If, in your grand taxonomy, a "phony conservative" is someone opposed to torture in principle, then I'm guilty as charged - and damn proud of it.

Your unique codification system might suffer from the fact that most conservatives (as well as liberals and anarchists) are also opposed. Moral disdain for it seems to transcend ideological boundaries. Are you suggesting that it is a cornerstone of conservative thought?

[185JHP]

The "water board" water torture has been used on our own people during SERE training. I personally like the idea of squirting some succinylcholine chloride in them. They don't die, they just think they're going to. Its use is described in the book "24 Hours" by Greg Iles. If you like thrillers, it's a good one. It has some great flying sequences in it, too, involving a Beech Baron. FReegards

[Heff]

CIA interrogators have been using "stress and duress" techniques on captured enemies in Afghanistan that blur the line between legal and inhumane, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

Are they kidding?

This first sentence is wrong. It says the Washington Post "reported". That must be a joke. Secondly, the fact that the CIA uses inhumane tactics isn't news, and I am glad that they do.

Someone please ask this jackass reporter what was so humane about crashing four loaded jets into the Towers, Pentagon and that field in PA?

After we've tortured them to near death, send a few of them back so they can tell their friends what awaits them if they continue to screw with the USA. It worked for Black Jack Pershing. You be amazed what horror you can actually survive.

As you were!

[FBD]

^ Is that the worlds' smallest violin playing, "My heart pumps peanut butter? Heh, heh... I want one of those!

[hobbes1]

At times they were held in awkward, painful positions and deprived of sleep with a 24-hour bombardment of lights - subject to what are known as "stress and duress" techniques, the report said. Those who cooperated were rewarded with "creature comforts" as well as feigned friendship, respect, cultural sensitivity and, in some cases, money, from their interrogators, it said. On the other hand, some who did not cooperate were turned over - "rendered," in official parlance - to foreign intelligence services whose practice of torture has been documented by the U.S. government and human rights organizations, the Post said.

So whats your point ? If I have a problem with anything it's letting someone else do our dirty work.

[Gary Boldwater]

That is a concern. Look what FDR did to innocent Japanese Americans. My concern is: supposed the have innocent people in custody - do you think they're going to let them go once the mistake is realized? Do they want the world to know what happened? Are my grandkids going to be paying reparations as I had to to the Japanese Americans? I'm not against rough methods of interrogation at all, as long as the interrogators are answerable to the people they serve.

[smoking camels]

I am basically opposed to torture. I don't delude myself like you do however, that I am soooo moraly better than my fellow man. And that is why I jumped you.

[Robert357]

CIA interrogations verging on inhumane

I have absolutely no problem with this. While in NYC at a conference I went to St Pat's church on Veterans' day just 2 months after 9/11. I heard the New Yorkers pray for the lost members of their families and church. I went to ground zero that day and watched the fire still burning after 2 months.

I have no problem with our government killing the people responsible for that. I encourage it. I have no problem doing whatever is needed to get the intellegence information out of Taliban & Al Quada. If the US government wants to keep its hands clean, I also have no problem with our government turning uncooperative prisioners over to others who are less concerned about human rights.

[Ace's Dad]

BTW - History testifies to the utility of torture - for getting people to admit to things they didn't do! Of what use is a type of interrogation that can compel the subject to admit she's a witch, or a wrecker of the latest five-year agricultural program?

As I understand it we are only seeking information, not confessions. This so called "torture" is nothing compared to real torture!

[Scarlet_Pimpernil]

You nailed it , excellent post.
If the Public Schools taught critical reading skills, people wouldn't rap a fish in the Washington Post