Here’s the outline of this story: Shortly before committing suicide, a lawyer in Guatemala made a Youtube video explaining that he was about to be assassinated by the government. So maybe not suicide, eh? Subsequently, a guy sent out a tweet on Twitter about it, and was arrested and put in jail. Now the whole nation is in demonstration against the government, using social networks to organize.
Dick Cheney tortured a guy in hopes that the guy would lie about there being an al-Qaeda/Iraq connection. Tortured a bunch of guys, in fact.
Dick Cheney, who famously shot a guy in the face, and then the guy apologized for having been shot in the face.
Dick Cheney, who really ran the country during the so-called Bush Years.
Ticking time bombs? Forget it. That’s all bullshit. Dick Cheney ordered a guy to be drowned under controlled circumstances, just shy of a couple hundred times in one month, in hopes that the guy would lie and tell what Dick Cheney wanted to hear.
And why did Dick Cheney want this? He wanted it so he could tell *you* that a ‘high-ranking al Qaeda operative’ admitted that al Qaeda had an operational connection to Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi government.
Dick Cheney didn’t want to find out if there was a connection. Dick Cheney knew there wasn’t a connection. But he wanted a terrorist to lie, and say there was, so he could then lie to *you* about it.
And so, he found a terrorist and drowned him a couple hundred times in one month.
But for most of 2002 and into 2003, Cheney and Rumsfeld, especially, were also demanding proof of the links between al Qaida and Iraq that (former Iraqi exile leader Ahmed) Chalabi and others had told them were there.”
It was during this period that CIA interrogators waterboarded 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.
