Effectiveness Of Harsh Questioning Is Unclear

Washington Post by Joby Warrick, Peter Finn | Apr. 26, 2009 (News Report)

During his first days in detention, senior al-Qaeda operative Khalid Sheik Mohammed was stripped of his clothes, beaten, given a forced enema and shackled with his arms chained above his head, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. It was then, a Red Cross report says, that his American captors told him to prepare for "a hard time."

Over the next 25 days, beginning on March 6, 2003, Mohammed was put through a routine in which ... Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Apr. 26, 2009

Other than being framed on the question of effectiveness rather than legality or morality, Warrick and Finn provide a good analysis of the news, and point out moral and legal questions, along with crucial points that destroy Cheney-ites claims of effectiveness because info was gathered prior to the torture they claim produced it.

Reading the history of the US under Bush and Cheney is like consuming sado-maso porn. They have molested the national honor.

“The systematic, calculated infliction of this scale of prolonged torment is immoral, debasing the perpetrators and the captives,” said Philip D. Zelikow, a political counselor to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice who reviewed secret Bush administration reports about the program in 2005. “Second, forfeiting our high ground, the practices also alienate needed allies in the common fight, even allies within our own government. Third, the gains are dubious when the alternatives are searchingly compared. And then, after all, there is still the law.”

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