Keith Olbermann on Waterboarding
Posted: November 8th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Once again, Keith Olbermann is right on point as he justifiably rages against this administration’s use of torture. He discusses the heroism of Daniel Levin (former Acting Assisitant U.S. Attorney), who subjected himself to waterboarding just to see if it should be categorized as “torture”. This was three years ago. Upon deciding it was unquestionably torture, he was dismissed. So much for truth in government. Watch this great little Olbermann moment:
November 9th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
The issue of waterboarding — why are we discussing it? On an ethical and moral level, there is no doubt that waterboarding is torture — as a former Special Forces guy pointed out, it is not “simulated drowning, it is drowning.” On a purely pragmatic level, we know that the only thing troture yields is an answer that the person eing tortured hopes will stop the torture. I.e. it does not yield truth, just a statement, any statement. Furthermore, we also know that many of our enemies today are willing to die in executing their attack. So why are we debating the issue? Let’s say that we get information that there is a dirty bomb in an unspecified town in the US. And we have in custody a man we are fairly sure is part of the plot. That, in brief, is the ‘ticking bomb scenario’ that proponents of keeping waterboarding in the president’s arsenal invoke. So here we are torturing a guy who is in al likelhiood prepared to die. Is this really going to yield actionable intelligence? Not very likely. According to the evidence, he will in all likelihood say whatever it is that will make the torturers stop torturing him. By the time the torturers discover he was lying, the bomb has gone off. And he is content because the mission is accomplished — and through his ‘confession’ he had managed to send his torturers on a wild goose chase that ensured the succss of the mission.
So, again, why are we discussing torture? Why are we not investing our time and energy instead in sound police work? And why are we putting into office a man who does not have the moral fiber to say what the Geneva Conventions and US law have already said: that waterboarding is torture.
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