{"id":23205,"date":"2011-05-04T07:32:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T11:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23205"},"modified":"2011-05-04T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T13:41:07","slug":"the-tortuous-debate-about-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23205","title":{"rendered":"The tortuous debate about torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA Director has admitted that, to a point, &#8220;harsh interrogayion methods&#8221; were used with some success in the bin :aden operation. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/may\/3\/debate-flares-anew-on-harsh-interrogation\/\">Washington Times<\/a>, Panetta said;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CIA Director Leon E. Panetta said some threads of intelligence among the multiple origins came through the use of harsh interrogation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly, some of it came from detainees and the interrogation of detainees, but we also had information from other sources as well,\u201d Mr. Panetta said on NBC News.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to deny that waterboarding was among the tactics used to extract the intelligence that led to the successful mission, Mr. Panetta said: \u201cNo. I think some of the detainees clearly were, you know, they used these enhanced interrogation techniques against some of these detainees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CIA director also said that \u201cthe debate about whether we would have gotten the same information through other approaches I think is always going to be an open question.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That must drive the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16908\">Anthony Camerino<\/a> crowd crazy since Camerino has spent thousands of George Soros dollars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14664\">to preach to us about how useless &#8220;torture&#8221; and being generally mean to Islamists<\/a> doesn&#8217;t work as an interrogation technique. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10227\">Not to mention the President<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How tough can waterboarding be if a giant pussy like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=4644\">Matthis can voluntarily tolerate it<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Added: &#8220;Torture lover&#8221; Uncle Jimbo on the subject at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2011\/05\/talking-torture-w-alyona.html\">Blackfive<\/a> and on Russia TV. Somehow Jim thinks that yellow suit he wore last week looks good on TV, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA Director has admitted that, to a point, &#8220;harsh interrogayion methods&#8221; were used with some &hellip; <a title=\"The tortuous debate about torture\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23205\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The tortuous debate about torture<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,131,37,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-i-hate-hippies","category-ivaw","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}