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Huffington Post: Harsh Interrogation Tactics Used To Try To Find Iraq-al Qaida Link
A former U.S. Army psychiatrist, Maj. Charles Burney, told Army investigators in 2006 that interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, detention facility were under "pressure" to produce evidence of ties between al Qaida and Iraq.
"While we were there a large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link between al Qaida and Iraq and we were not successful in establishing a link between al Qaida and Iraq," Burney told staff of the Army Inspector General. "The more frustrated people got in not being able to establish that link . . . there was more and more pressure to resort to measures that might produce more immediate results."
Why the Huffington Post is namby-pamby-ing around with "harsh interrogation techniques" is, at this point, beyond me. The U.S. tortured people to get them to say what George W. Bush and Dick Cheney wanted to hear. Count me as one Obama voter who is not satisfied with "looking forward." I want these assholes behind bars.
posted by VMM at 10:47 PM
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Here is the part I missed.
Cheney: "Did he talk?"
Interrogator: "Yes sir, we think he's told us everything."
Cheney: "Better waterboard him to make sure he's not holding out on us."
Interrogator: "Again sir?"
Cheney: "What do you mean again?! Waterboard the sonofabitch!"
Interrogator: "But we've already waterboarded him 82 times."
Cheney: "You know what they say: the 83rd time's a charm."
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