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Up In Smoke: CIA Subjected Cole Bomber To Second-Hand Smoke
This via CNS News:
Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, according to the 9-11 commission report, was the mastermind of the Oct. 12, 2000, attack on the U.S.S. Cole that killed 17 U.S. sailors.
Nashiri was also the target of an "unauthorized" CIA interrogation technique (that had not been legally vetted by the Justice Department) that is described in a May 7, 2004, CIA inspector general’s report that was partially declassified by the Obama administration this week.
CIA officers blew smoke in Nashiri’s face, according to the report, and they used cigars.
The IG’s office described this smoke-blowing as one of several "unauthorized or undocumented techniques" it discovered had been used in isolated incidents by CIA employees interrogating high-level al-Qaida terrorists.
"An Agency (redacted phrase) interrogator admitted that, in December 2002, he and another (redacted phrase) smoked cigars and blew cigar smoke in al-Nashiri’s face during the interrogation," said the IG report.
I know it sounds like a brutal war crime, but the interrogators had a reason for blowing smoke:
"The interrogator claimed they did this to ‘cover the stench’ in the room and to help keep the interrogators alert late at night," said the IG report. "This interrogator said he would not do this again based on ‘perceived criticism.’ Another agency interrogator admitted that he also smoked cigars during two sessions with al-Nashiri to mask the stench in the room. He claimed he did not deliberately force smoke into al-Nashiri’s face." The interrogators learned their lesson: Don’t blow smoke at terrorists.
Only in America could something this absurd actually be real. Second-hand smoke is considered an “unauthorized” interrogation technique?
I guess if you happen to break wind in front of a detainee you have to report that as well.
What he should have done is put that cigar out in al-Nashiri’s eye. Now that’s what I call an “unauthorized” technique. Oh yeah!!!
-Chris Jones
New Detainee Abuse Pictures Surface
New detainee abuse pictures have strangely surfaced even as president Obama moved to block publication of the photos.
I’m not posting them, but you can follow the link if you have to see them.
-Chris Jones
Hey WaPo, STFU About Torture
How many times are the liberal newspaper columnists in this country going to keep dipping into the “torture” well? The story has been written about ad nauseam for years.
The angry columns demanding that someone be “held accountable” for the unbearably loud music detainees were subjected to or the 3 cases of waterboarding are way beyond tedious at this point. We’ve heard it all before and most people still don’t care.
Yet for some reason, The Washington Post is treating us to yet another torture screed — this time courtesy of Anne Applebaum.
I could give a sweet rat’s ass if we tortured and in fact I hope we did — and still are. None of the techniques described thus far in the thousands of columns around the country sound like torture to me. The only thing I’ve seen any evidence of is enhanced interrogation which was used very successfully against a number of difficult terrorists.
The economy is in the shitter and I’ve got bills to pay. Whether or not Akmed or Mohammad were kept up nights with underwear on their head is so far from anything I care about it’s actually funny.
I realize liberals always need to either play the victim or be an advocate for one, but your sympathy (as usual) is sorely misplaced.
If this country were really serious about fighting and winning the war on terror, Gitmo would be empty. Not because we let people go or sent them home, but because after their (vigorous) interrogations (very vigorous) they would be shot in the head.
The only issue I have with the CIA “black sites” that Anne Applebaum is so outraged about is that we know about CIA “black sites.” We should find the asshole who leaked the information about the black sites and put his ass in one of them.
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