GOP Rep Peter King defends CIA threatening to kill detainee's family and mock executions

[sabra]

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0809/King_on_Holder_You_wonder_which_side_theyre_on.html

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King, channeling both the sense of outrage and of political opportunity felt in parts of the GOP, defended in detail the interrogation practices -- threats to kill a detainee's family, and or to kill a detainee with a power drill -- detailed in a CIA inspector general report released yesterday.

"You're talking about threatening to kill a guy, threatening to attack his family, threatening to use an electric drill on him – but never doing it," King said. "You have that on the one hand – and on the other you have the attempt to prevent thousands of Americans from being killed."

"When Holder was talking about being 'shocked' , I thought they were going to have cutting guys' fingers off or something – or that they actually used the power drill," he said.

Pressed on whether interrogators had actually broken the law, King said he didn't think the Geneva Convention "applies to terrorists," and that the line between permitted and outlawed interrogation policies in the Bush years was "a distinction without a difference."

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"You will have thousands of lives that will be lost and the blood will be on Eric Holder's hands," he said.

[randr]

1. Excellent

Let the GOP take the side of war criminals and the unAmerican actions they performed.
Stunning considering the repugs have more blood dripping from their hands than anyone in recent history.

[Winterblues]

2. If by cutting off their fingers we get even more information should we do that as well?

Where is the line with these people or is there a line at all?