June 11, 2004
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Making Light asks a good question, with some good answers in the comments section:
3. Given that (a.) anyone who has any expertise in intensive interrogation knows that tortured prisoners will tell you anything they think will get you to stop hurting them; and (b.) given that it’s a disastrously stupid move to plan your operations and allocate your resources on the basis of such worse-than-nothing “intel”; and (c.) given that we have a fair number of experts who know all those things who are working in our government and military who know all those things in detail, what do you suppose was the actual point of getting advance permission to torture prisoners?
This is in reference to the Bush administration's insistence that the law doesn't apply to it.
'What?' you say. 'The Bush administration thinks the law doesn't apply to it? That's left-wing conspiracy nonsense!' you go on. But you are wrong. The administration's lawyer wrote a memo about this very thing. And recently, Attorney General John Ashcroft basically told off Congress on this very topic, as reported by the only news show that matters any more: The Daily Show.
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Doesn't surprise me one bit. Nothing this administration does surprises me anymore. Ughhhhhhhhhhh
They were saying publicly from the very beginning that the Geneva Conventions would not apply to those prisoners. I think their reasoning was that the prisoners were not part of a regular army?
Sounds like now they deny saying it. Always trying to rewrite history. Sadly it isn't very hard to do.
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