Monday, January 18, 2010

Disentangling Fact from Fiction

Marc Thiessen has written a fascinating article on CIA interrogation techniques that shows there's a world of difference between the methods used by real-life interrogators and those used by Jack Bauer. Highly recommended.

7 comments:

RebeccaH said...

"...And they knew it was important work, and I just have an enormous amount of respect for the people who are in this program. And I have such profound disrespect for those who ran for the tall grass when it started to become exposed, and even less regard for those who now seek to take political advantage of it.”

Amen.

richard mcenroe said...

You mean you CAN'T just shoot them in the thigh? That's it, I'm withdrawing my application!

Yojimbo said...

Just reason number one million and one why these naive ill-informed little brats have to be defeated. Eight years of this crew would just be a total disaster of monumental proportions. The national security and enegry policies of the first four years might just do us in, but eight!

The article also shows why it is a bad mistake to take terrorist from the battlefield straight to the civil courts, if you needed any more reasons that is.

Boy on a bike said...

Can't they get the information that they need using non-violent techniques, and then torture them afterwards, just for the hell of it?

richard mcenroe said...

BoB -- That comment was crude,insensitve, racist and I'll bring the beer cooler.

Minicapt said...

Torture is illegal; but attitude adjustment can be useful.

Cheers

Irobot said...

You mean that 24 is not a documentary. I'm disappointed.

It was an excellent article. The writing was matter-of-fact and it needed no emotive verbiage to get its points across.

Thanks Paco.