Hey Media, KSM Was NOT Waterboarded 183 Times

April 30, 2009 · Filed Under Media, War on Terror

The media has been frothing at the mouth over the recently released torture interrogation memos.

The NY Times has devoted as much ink as possible to deceiving the public into believing terrorists were tortured and Bush is a war criminal.

However, the only thing criminal are the lies the nearly bankrupt NY Times prints.

One of their favorite lies of late has been that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times.

That’s the kind of red meat The Times has been dreaming about for years and has been only too happy to peddle it.

Unfortunately for The Times, it isn’t true.

That 183 figure represents the number of times water touched his face. Since the object of the technique is only to scare, water is only poured on the face for maybe 5 or 6 seconds at a time.

Then KSM was allowed to catch his breath briefly before more water was poured. But each time the water is poured counts separately.

So a single waterboarding might consist of 15 or 20 pours, maybe more.

The Justice Department memos don’t explain all that, because they were never meant for public consumption. The CIA never dreamed those documents would be plastered all over the Internet and the evening news.

The real outrage here has nothing to do with interrogations and everything to do with the outrageous irresponsibility of Obama for releasing the documents.

Our president doesn’t give a f*ck about national security, and would rather placate the ACLU then do what is necessary to protect this nation.

-Chris Jones