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McCain on Waterboarding of 9/11 Planner: “Unconscionable”
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On April 22, 2014 @ 1:22 pm In The Point | 37 Comments
un·con·scion·a·ble
ˌənˈkänSH(ə)nəbəl/Submit
adjective
1. not right or reasonable.
Or so Senator McCain, who has developed quite a fondness for Jihadists lately, believes.
McCain… elaborated on an event that was reported Monday by The Post, noting that officials waterboarding a terror suspect reported to CIA headquarters that they had “gotten everything we can out of the guy.”
“The message came back, ‘Waterboard him some more.’ That is unconscionable,” McCain said.
There wasn’t much “suspect” about the suspect.
Abu Zubaydah rose from very low level mujahedin to third or fourth man in al Qaeda. Served as Osama Bin Laden’s senior lieutenant, managed a network of training camps and was one of the planners of 9/11.
Unconscionable. I don’t think Senator McCain knows what that word means.
Asked about the report, McCain said it offers further evidence of the inefficiencies of using torture on American enemies. “When you torture someone they will say anything you want to hear to make the pain stop. So I never, ever believed this bologna that, well, because of waterboarding they got information,” he said.
That’s an oversimplification. While torture doesn’t magically produce information, it’s a viable part of a sustained interrogation program. If you accept the first thing that a tortured terrorist says, then yes it’s worthless.
That’s why you say, ‘Waterboard him some more’ instead.
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