Why is the WaPo telling me what I was telling you? Last spring when Abu Zubaydah was in the news, former FBI Ali Soufan made news claiming that "traditional" interrogation techniques worked with Zubaydah while "enhanced" CIA techniques had been ineffective.
Yesterday the WaPo finally reported the blindingly obvious (to anyone who read the record) - contra the proposed Sofan timeline, enhanced CIA techniques had been employed almost from the outset. The WaPo confirms that some of the useful intelligence gleaned from Zubaydah followed the CIA involvement.
If they'd listen to you more often and steal your stuff they'd be more credible, TM
Posted by: clarice | July 20, 2009 at 01:36 PM
But TM, you had nothing about the "Masters of the Mind [Expletive]".
Posted by: Neo | July 20, 2009 at 01:53 PM
they will announce that Mr. Rogers will be in charge of all interrogation from now on...
"come on Mr. Zubaydah, I know you know where the explosives are....let's drink some warm milk and eat some cookies and put on our cardigans and be friends and see what King Friday has to say"
Posted by: matt | July 20, 2009 at 02:04 PM
But that would be 'doubleplusungood',
clarice,
Posted by: narciso | July 20, 2009 at 02:07 PM
--"come on Mr. Zubaydah, I know you know where the explosives are....let's drink some warm milk and eat some cookies and put on our cardigans and be friends and see what King Friday has to say"--
Or they could torture them by having Lady Elaine rubbing her breasts up against them.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkywatzky | July 20, 2009 at 02:07 PM
Put them in a room with Hillary.
Make them watch Chavez videos.
Posted by: Amused Bystander | July 20, 2009 at 02:11 PM
Put them in a room with Hillary.
OMG. Please, I'll talk!
Posted by: Extraneus | July 20, 2009 at 02:13 PM
"Or they could torture them by having Lady Elaine rubbing her breasts up against them."
Do your worst,I'll never talk.
Posted by: PeterUK | July 20, 2009 at 02:40 PM
Ali Soufan takes a seat alongside Comey at the "heroes of the day who just made shit up to get anti-Bush attention yet the exposure of their lies won't get equal attention" table.
Posted by: MayBee | July 20, 2009 at 03:50 PM
Heroes for protecting us; heroes for taking the blame for it.
Posted by: Let me get a busboy for that table. | July 20, 2009 at 05:17 PM
Force them into a ménage à trois sandwiched between Nancy Pelosi and Helen Thomas.
Posted by: fdcol63 | July 21, 2009 at 08:01 AM