The WaPo's new farce, "How A Detainee Became an Asset"
Hint: It involves merciless torture.
I'm calling it right fucking now: BULLSHIT
"What do you think changed KSM's mind?" one former senior intelligence official said this week after being asked about the effect of waterboarding. "Of course it began with that."
BULLSHIT
But for defenders of waterboarding, the evidence is clear: Mohammed cooperated, and to an extraordinary extent, only when his spirit was broken in the month after his capture March 1, 2003, as the inspector general's report and other documents released this week indicate.
BULLSHIT
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Critics say waterboarding and other harsh methods are unacceptable regardless of their results, and those with detailed knowledge of the CIA's program say the existing assessments offer no scientific basis to draw conclusions about effectiveness.
No, I'm pretty sure that's what any sane fucking human being says.
In summary: Fuck you WaPo, fuck your spineless, context-free equivocation. Fuck you for riding the righteousness of Watergate into the basely unethical, amoral wasteland of torture justification. Fuck you for having no journalistic standards. Fuck you and your cat.
BULLSHIT