Tag Archives: Interrogations

Khalid, Khalid, burning bright

A few years ago at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago I learned that the playful porpoises one sees at shows are sad shadows of wild untamed porpoises. They aren’t even really porpoises, they’re mere automata, cynically reprogrammed into performing machines. The regimen they endure is arguably more relentless and exacting than that imposed to make the  inmates at Guantanamo Bay [...]

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – Waterboarding, Good for Me and Good for You

Newsweek’s Mark Hosenball says the Inspector General’s report and other recently-released documents pertaining to Bush-era interrogations of top al Qaeda operatives do not show that waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation techniques EITs “actually worked.” Hosenball concedes that the detainees gave up a treasure trove of valuable intelligence, but the documents do not “convincingly demonstrate” that [...]

Administration Interrogation Policy Suffers Additional Belly Slaps, Attention Grabs

Director Blue at the HotAir Green Room:  Classified information – what really led to the Panetta’s gonna quit rumors. Scott Ott at the DC Examiner:  Couric to lead Obama’s new elite interrogation unit.

CONTENTION OF THE DAY – Pass the Popcorn, Pauline

The graph is based exclusively on non-Latino whites (because that’s who the book is about). If you want to see a visual representation of the development of the bubble that Barack Obama has been living in since he left Hawaii, that graph is it. Judging from the GSS [General Social Survey] data, every white socioeconomic [...]

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