Torture due to desperate search to find Iraq/911 link
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It was during this period that CIA interrogators water-boarded two alleged top al Qaida detainees repeatedly — Abu Zubaydah at least 83 times in August 2002 and Khalid Sheik Muhammed 183 times in March 2003 — according to a newly released Justice Department document.
"There was constant pressure on the intelligence agencies and the interrogators to do whatever it took to get that information out of the detainees, especially the few high-value ones we had, and when people kept coming up empty, they were told by Cheney's and Rumsfeld's people to push harder," he continued.
It's like the old adage about how far you have to go to cover a lie... the topic has been prominent in the mainstream media so I wanted to address the "why" behind the "what" and "who".
"There was constant pressure on the intelligence agencies and the interrogators to do whatever it took to get that information out of the detainees, especially the few high-value ones we had, and when people kept coming up empty, they were told by Cheney's and Rumsfeld's people to push harder," he continued.
It's like the old adage about how far you have to go to cover a lie... the topic has been prominent in the mainstream media so I wanted to address the "why" behind the "what" and "who".
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- tags:
- Bush, War on Terror, War Crimes, Torture in War, 1 more
