Perhaps they just didn't know what they were doing?
Not a chance.
Rice, Cheney and others personally gave the go-ahead for torture on behalf of the United States of America. It is really that simple.
www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/23/cheney.rice.waterboarding/index.html
Waterboarding was considered torture in the middle ages, when it was developed. It was torture in the Nuremberg trials, as prosecuted by the US an the Allies. It was torture when the US was conditioning their pilots to prepare for the technique. It is considered torture by any human being that has been subjected to it. It is also an effective technique for getting false confessions out of prisoners - which was the entire reason the practice was invented and implemented throughout history.
That's right, it IS torture. When the US and the Allies found enemy soldiers guilty of waterboarding, we EXECUTED them for torturing our soldiers.
It does NOT produce factual intelligence. It DOES coerce a person into saying what the torturer wants them to say.
Guess this helps explain Condie Rice's promotion, even though as National Security Advisor, she oversaw the worst disaster ever in advising the President of a threat to National Security.
Rice, Cheney and others personally gave the go-ahead for torture on behalf of the United States of America. It is really that simple.
www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/23/cheney.rice.waterboarding/index.html
Waterboarding was considered torture in the middle ages, when it was developed. It was torture in the Nuremberg trials, as prosecuted by the US an the Allies. It was torture when the US was conditioning their pilots to prepare for the technique. It is considered torture by any human being that has been subjected to it. It is also an effective technique for getting false confessions out of prisoners - which was the entire reason the practice was invented and implemented throughout history.
That's right, it IS torture. When the US and the Allies found enemy soldiers guilty of waterboarding, we EXECUTED them for torturing our soldiers.
It does NOT produce factual intelligence. It DOES coerce a person into saying what the torturer wants them to say.
Guess this helps explain Condie Rice's promotion, even though as National Security Advisor, she oversaw the worst disaster ever in advising the President of a threat to National Security.
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