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Ashcroft defends waterboarding
Testifying on the Bush administration’s interrogation rules before the House Judiciary Committee, Ashcroft defended the technique while answering a question from Rep. Howard Coble, R-North Carolina.
“Waterboarding, as we all know, is a controversial issue. Do you think it served a beneficial purpose?” the congressman asked.
“The reports that I have heard, and I have no reason to disbelieve them, indicate that they were very valuable,” Ashcroft said, adding that CIA Director George Tenet indicated the “value of the information received from the use of enhanced interrogation techniques — I don’t know whether he was saying waterboarding or not, but assume that he was for a moment — the value of that information exceeded the value of information that was received from all other sources.”
FUCK. Ashcroft is one of those people that hates torture… BUT DOESN’T CONSIDER TORTURE TO BE TORTURE. Whatever helps you sleep at night, douchebag.
It’s sad that our countries politics includes nothing more than spinning already spun information into sunshine and rainbows when in reality it’s still raining shit and somehow we lost the Sun.
Tags: asshole, Torture, waterboarding