Nobody Cares If Terrorists Were Tortured

August 25, 2009 · Filed Under War on Terror

Attorney General Eric Holder has been salivating at the chance to prosecute someone for “torturing” terrorists after 9/11 and it looks like he’s getting ready to do just that.

What Holder will soon find out is that he’s badly miscalculated public opinion on this issue. He’s expecting public outrage to grow after releasing the previously classified AG report that lists detainee abuses, but there will be no outrage.

The vast majority of Americans have a lot to worry about right now with the economy in the shitter, etc. Whether or not the CIA roughed up some terrorists after they knocked our buildings down is just not something most people are concerned about.

Some of the allegations against the CIA interrogators include threatening one terrorist with a gun, threatening to kill the mother and children of a terrorist, mock executions, and other seemingly useful techniques.

Why should anyone care if the CIA threatened to kill the children of 9/11 mastermind KSM? We didn’t touch his children — we just threatened him with that to get him to talk. Seems pretty reasonable to me.

It seems logical that you would threaten the lives of the people closest to the terrorist you’re interrogating.

If you have a gun handy, why would you not threaten the person you’re interrogating with it?

This administration has no idea what kind of shit storm they’re unleashing with this political witch hunt. Fortunately, this makes it all the more likely that Barack Obama will be a one-term president.

Then we can get back to the business of killing the enemy and gathering intelligence.