Real Time | Former CIA Official Bob Baer On Waterboarding

Bob Baer's a former CIA officer. He appeared on Bill Maher's Real Time a few days ago and discussed torture, specifically "waterboarding" as torture, and why torture doesn't work.


That the media is still debating this is the most amazing thing and going into convoluted language("enhanced interrogation techniques") to say TORTURE. Our armed forces executed Japanese soldiers in WW2 for waterboarding POW's.
Here's John Amato:

It's very annoying that we still have to bring people out to explain over and over again that waterboarding is torture and "torture is bad.

We have to blame the media on this in reality because torture apologists will do and say anything to cloud the truth, but the media endlessly debates the same things over and over again. It's settled law and has been settled for decades. Torture is illegal and torture is a crime.

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America | The New Torture Poll

58%-40% of Americans say no to torture in a new Washington Post/ABC News poll which was released yesterday
















Glenn Greenwald:
By a wide margin -- 58-40% -- Americans say that torture should never be used, no matter the circumstances. Let's repeat that: "no matter the circumstance." That margin is enormous among Democrats (71-28%) and substantial among independents (56-43%). As usual these days, Republicans hold the minority view, but even among them there is substantial categorical opposition to torture (42-55%).

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Keith Olbermann On Waterboarding And Torture

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Waterboarding Defined For Bushistas

Bush's Attorney General nominee has said he doesn't really know enough about waterboarding to know whether it's torture. Even though it's been considered so for a very long time. I know, I know, specific amnesia is a necessity to play in dubya's playhouse:

















"I don't know what's involved in the technique. ... I think it would be irresponsible of me to discuss particular techniques with which I am not familiar."
-Michael Mukasey

Well thank goodness we have Waterboarding.org to educate the intentionally dense Bushco candidates for the top law enforcement office in the land.

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