How ’07 ABC Interview Tilted a Torture Debate
Published: April 27, 2009
In late 2007, there was the first crack of daylight into the government’s use of waterboarding during interrogations of Al Qaeda detainees. On Dec. 10, John Kiriakou, a former C.I.A. officer who had participated in the capture of the suspected terrorist Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan in 2002, appeared on ABC News to say that while he considered waterboarding a form of torture, the technique worked and yielded results very quickly.
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MSM and the political establishment often go to any lenght to support the status quo.But here the NY Times does a fine job of revealing how far one major media outlet skewed a debate by chosing to give a platform to a source with little credibility.