Posted on 05/10/2011 8:07:41 AM PDT by ventanax5
In this O'Reilly Factor exposé Marc Thiessen, the former chief speechwriter for President Bush, explains the enhanced interrogation methods used to start the chain of events which eventually lead to the death of Usama bin Laden. While most people believe that these methods are used to extract information, Thiessen explains that enhanced interrogations are used to create a more cooperative environment. After the subject is broken, interrogators can then start to extract the desired information, sometimes as simply as having a conversation with the person.
BILL O'REILLY, HOST: Now for the top story tonight: an inside look at how the coerced interrogation worked in the bin Laden case. As you may know, only three captured terrorists were waterboarded, all Al Qaeda big shots and, again, the information they provided has been vital in defeating the terrorist group.
Joining us now from Washington, Marc Thiessen, the former chief speechwriter for President Bush, who had access to the intelligence on this subject that the president had. Now, I want to set this up. The president asked you to write a speech on coerced interrogation. You also use the information to write a book called "Courting Disaster." Is that correct?
MARC THIESSEN, FORMER CHIEF SPEECHWRITER FOR PRESIDENT BUSH: That is absolutely correct, yes.
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“enhanced interrogation methods” is to torture as ‘choice’ is to abortion. It’s more sales ready.
I’m sure that’s what it sounds like to some. But that’s not true, yet. If we knew how to define torture, the case might be argued; but while we’re defining torture down, there’s absolutely no way to determine whether or not enhanced interrogation is torture. Juan Williams continuously straw-mans on this issue, citing eye-gouging and fingernail extracting. That’s torture. Waterboarding, sleep-depriving, slaps-in-the-face, bland meals, etc., would not have qualified as torture even 25 years ago and can’t qualify as torture today, if the word continues to have meaning.
Of course it creates a more cooperative environment...most people will become more cooperative when they think you’re going to drown them.
I’d like to see him do an expose’ on how being doused with jet fuel and falling 1200’ kills you
I’d like to see him do an expose’ on how being doused with jet fuel and falling 1200’ kills you
On a continuum that has sleep deprivation and waterboarding on one end, and applying a blowtorch to your scrotum at the other end, "enhanced interrogation methods” can be used to describe methods that produce discomfort, but no lasting or permanent bodily damage.
I could care less if they nailed a terrorist nuts to a table and sets the room on fire and wait until you get answers,just get answers.
One major point that nobody’s making: Hassan Ghul was CAPTURED IN IRAQ!!!!! In 2004!!!!!
So, the key to the eventual capture of OBL was captured in a country that Obama would never have gone to war with, and the information they got from him was extracted using interrogation techniques that Obama never would have authorized.
Somehow, this is supposed to make us admire his courage and leadership.
According to the Democrats/media, if one is a Democrat they are brilliant, courageous, and charismatic, a natural leader. If a Republican, dumb, corrupt, a cowboy, and hates women, children and the elderly. Those are givens.
I’m with you. I’ll even volunteer to donate my carpenter skills with an estwing.
I remember this guy from when he was a guest on Dennis Prager’s show a year or so ago, and he was saying basically yhe same thing; how KSM gave us a graduate-level course on Al Qaeda operations.
And the key point is that the enhanced interrogation wasn’t used to get information, it was used to get him to cooperate. Once he had resisted the interrogation techniques to his utmost, to where he could honestly say that he had resisted as much as he could, then according to his religious beliefs it was then OK for him to cooperate with us and give us anything we wanted.
So we knew very little about how Al Qaeda worked before then, and he gave us a ton of valuable information, and it wouldn’t have been possible had he not been waterboarded.
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