, explains further: Posted on 01/27/2010 3:32:05 PM PST by Starman417
"CIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding"
Yup, thats the headline the lefties are jumping all over today from Foreign Policy. The article purports:
Well, it's official now: John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn't know what he was talking about.
Of course there is more than meets the eye on this story. The fact of the matter is that Kiriakou says he "didn't know what he was talking about" because he wasn't in the room when the waterboarding took place. The whole piece uses over 900 words to assert that the success of waterboarding is in question because Kiriakou used second hand information to come to the conclusion that waterboarding works, but completely ignores the fact that the interrogators themselves confirmed KSM broke because of waterboarding and the declassified documents prove that attacks were prevented because of the information that was extracted.
Marc Thiessen, author of Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack
Read more at floppingaces.net...
Yet ANOTHER government employee trying to keep his job.....they come out of the woodwork to profess allegiance/support/Bush-bash to save their sorry asses, or, they are USED to take their words out of context and be used however they need.
Maybe we could use him to test waterboarding ~ get it overwith one way or the other.
Wait, this coming from the same Left that espouses that sleep deprivation is torture?
Can we waterboard the Left?
This particular assertion about him supposedly “recanting” is B.S. The article shows clearly that LEGALLY, he had second-hand info, so he couldn’t attest to the facts, BUT OTHERS DID. Those who were PRESENT attested to the effectiveness, and the prevention of a plot, which NO state-run-media wants to mention, as it would not be consistent with Bush-Bashing and the “Hold Hands and sing Kum-bayah” crowd silliness.
maybe they should ask KSM if it worked or not, he should know...
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