Mainstreaming Torture: Newsweek Writes A 24 Episode
Via Digby, Newsweek hires Stuart Taylor, with an assist from longtime Newsweek Beltway blowhard Evan Thomas, to write an episode of 24:
The issue of torture is more complicated than it seems. . . . Waterboarding—simulating drowning by pouring water over the suspect's mouth and nostrils—is a brutal interrogation method. But by some (disputed) accounts, it was CIA waterboarding that got Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to talk. It is a liberal shibboleth that torture doesn't work—that suspects will say anything, including lies, to stop the pain. But the reality is perhaps less clear.
(Emphasis supplied.) The question I have is simply this - who told Newsweek, Taylor and Thomas that torture works? Sounds like a breach of national security. Maybe we should get Jack Bauer to torture them until they reveal their sources.
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