Lindsey Graham Cites Debunked Report To Argue For Torture

[babylonsister]

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Graham Cites Debunked Report To Argue For Torture
By Zachary Roth - May 13, 2009, 12:24PM


It looks like Lindsey Graham just cited John Kiriakou's interview with ABC News, in which the former CIA interrogator claimed that the use of enhanced interrogation techniques broke Abu Zubaydah within minutes.

Did Graham miss the fact that ABC News's report has been authoritatively debunked -- and that ABC News has acknowledged as much?

Looks like he did -- or doesn't care.

[sabra]

1. and Soufan debunked him even before he finished the question

stating that Kiriakou has retracted his claim and that he wasn't even part of the interrogations...

[TheCoxwain]

2. The best part was that he was immediately challenged on it by soufan ( witness for hearing)

Graham totally had egg on his face

[Justitia]

3. I feel like I'm in the fucking Twilight Zone! I cannot believe US officials are advocating TORTURE!

I know, I know, these people are depraved assholes, but every now & then, it hits me like a slap in the face: People in our gov't are PRO-TORTURE! Like we live in a 3rd world, despotic country! Unfuckingbelievable!

[TheCoxwain]

5. When the dust settles on this one ( in probably 10 years) Republicans will look giant ASSHOLES they

are..


think Joe McCarthy .... then and now.

[Justitia]

8. I'm just flabbergasted & gobsmacked that ANYONE THINKS THIS IS OKAY!!!

How the hell can they allow themselves to be recorded in history as defending & promoting TORTURE???

Disgusting, shameful & criminal. I hope their parents, kids, neighbors & friends think they are dogshit.

Every now & again the enormity of it just really hits me again - today is one of those days.

You mentioned McCarthy....he still has his defenders today and he was fucking slime. Drinking himself into the grave was too easy a death for him.

[BOSSHOG]

4. You Go Lindsay, you stand tall for those conservative values

[UnrepentantUnitarian]

6. If you folks want Lindsey Graham, you can have him!

We progressives in SC (all 5 of us) would just have to get along without him...somehow. Special deal: If you take our Lindsey Graham in the next ten minutes, we'll throw in a Jim Diment. All you have to pay is shipping and handling.

[Justitia]

10. You have my empathy - I'm stuck w/pro-Torture Sen. Box Turtle (Cornyn).

Sorry, I can't take on another freak just now.

:hug:

[SpiralHawk]

7. Freaking Republicon Homelanders....

No respect for America, morality, or the truth.

FREE CLUE: Jesus Christ would not torture anyone, since he was so brutally tortured himself by the Republicon Homelanders of his era...

[bushmeister0]

9. One brave South Carolinian brave enough to publicly defend the Union

once said South Carolina was too small to be a country and too big to be an insane asylum.

Apparently, he was wrong. South Carolina is just one big insane asylum.

[HelenWheels]

11. Numerous waterboarding

Wasn't Abu Zubaydah waterboarded many, times? If the "enhanced techniques" broke him within minutes why did they have to waterboard him so many times?