On Fox, Michael Feldman notes report that Cheney's office sought to use torture to establish link between Iraq and 9-11

Expand All Expand 1st Level Collapse All

- by nerzog (May 15, 2009 1:21 pm ET)
  2
  
  Wow. FOX is slipping. That's twice this week that something resembling real Journalism has found its way into their broadcast.
  
  Heads will roll!
  
  Reply Report Abuse
  - by TheDayV (May 15, 2009 1:33 pm ET)
    1
    
    I was waiting for him to get shouted down or cut off.
    
    Reply Report Abuse
- by shaggles (May 15, 2009 1:41 pm ET)
  
  What? So even using torture they couldn't get somebody to cop to that pile of BS but Cheney is still peddling it.
  
  Reply Report Abuse
  - by nerzog (May 15, 2009 1:46 pm ET)
    
    I've seen several interrogation experts interviewed, and they all say that techniques like waterboarding have traditionally been used to force people into false confessions.
    
    Maybe this is the can of worms that will finally consume Darth Cheney.
    
    Reply Report Abuse
- by latanza (May 15, 2009 1:42 pm ET)
  4
  
  i support tactics of torture and psychological warfare by all means. If it were up to me, by the time I got through with enemies of America, they would not be a threat or an issue to releas anywhere on the globe because they would be made[b] harmless. We have trained our soldiers and special opts guys in a very unique way and it is going to take extreme strategies to break them-the same is true for the opposing troops. You disarm and neutralize threats, You don't house them! I support waterboarding and all other kinds of methods until we have one that no one is aware of, (unlike waterboarding), that effectively and definately meets the goals of gaining intel and defeat of the enemy. Our aim when we went to war was to kill the enemy, so I guess breaking the enemy was the lesser of the two evils.
  
  Check this out, we have not been found to immoral and unethical, we always were! The savatry of slavery was worse than waterboarding and the only reason it wasn't challenged for 700 years is because it netted profits! When did we become collectively humane. If I were the President, this would not even be a public debate.
  
  Reply Report Abuse
  - by cmiller442 (May 15, 2009 2:27 pm ET)
    
    "I support tactics of torture and psychological warfare by all means."
    
    I guess it's too bad for you that these types of things are morally wrong and, in many cases, illegal. Bin Laden said his goal was to destroy our country from the inside out. We've spent billions on wars we should not have been involved in, we've witnessed thousands of our best warriors die for a dubious cause, we've seen attacks on our own soil kill thousands more, and finally we've completely ignored our moral compass and stooped to the low level of our enemies because of the actions of a few ruthless, fear-mongering neocons.
    
    If I didn't know any better, I'd say we're now fighting more amongst ourselves than any foreign enemy.
    
    Reply Report Abuse
  - by puttforever4682 (May 15, 2009 2:37 pm ET)
    
    " If I were the President, this would not even be a public debate. "
    
    I wonder latanza --would you control debate by the strength of your personality or are you implying that our press would have new restrictions placed on it. This might include all means of suppression, presumably.
    Please consider that there are ways to get information from prisoners that are not torture.
    
    Reply Report Abuse
  - by nerzog (May 15, 2009 2:44 pm ET)
    
    Would you try to determine which of your prisoners was really an "enemy combatant" before rendering them harmless, or just apply these techniques across the board to everyone you capture? Do you think all of the detainees were literally captured on the battlefield after they ran out of bullets or something?
    
    In your John Wayne utopia, is there any need to determine guilt before punishment?
    
    Reply Report Abuse
  - by snoopy (May 15, 2009 4:21 pm ET)
    
    There goes the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th & 8th amendments.
    
    Especially the 8th: which prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishments.
    
    Reply Report Abuse
  - by mikehuck1976 (May 15, 2009 4:24 pm ET)
    
    Wow. Slavery supporter. They still make you? I thought you went the way of the BetaMax.
    
    Reply Report Abuse
- by TheThief672 (May 15, 2009 2:01 pm ET)
  
  I would really like to see the Bush administration sent to jail.
  
  Reply Report Abuse

On Fox, Michael Feldman notes report that Cheney's office sought to use torture to establish link between Iraq and 9-11

Most Popular Tags

RSS Feeds


	Username or Email Password Forgot your password? or Create An Account Email Username (required, for posting on forums) Zip Code Click here to subscribe to Media Matters action alerts and newsletters. or Log in to an existing account

On Fox, Michael Feldman notes report that Cheney's office sought to use torture to establish link between Iraq and 9-11

Most Popular Tags

RSS Feeds

Connect & Share