Daniel Levin, the Dept of Justice and waterboarding

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More on our Pro Torture nation from that bastion of left wing bias, the Wall Street Journal:

Pentagon Forbids Marine to Testify


By Jess Bravin

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration blocked a Marine Corps lawyer from testifying before Congress today that severe techniques employed by U.S. interrogators derailed his prosecution of a suspected al Qaeda terrorist.
The move comes as the administration seeks to tamp down concerns about detainee policies that flared up after attorney general-designate Michael Mukasey declined to tell senators whether he believes that waterboarding, or simulated drowning of prisoners, constitutes torture. The debate has focused on whether severe interrogation practices, some of which critics consider to be torture, are legal, moral or effective.

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Remember that game kids use to play called uncle? If you twisted a kids arm enough and made him eat enough dirt he would say uncle through as many teeth he has left. But in the end you weren't his uncle.

If you put enough water into someone lungs to activate their gag reflexes they will sing Air Supply songs to you and tell you that 3x4=56, if it makes you happy.

I can't see how it is a good idea for us to sink ourselves to the point where we are as bad as the people we are fighting. Why don't we go MKULTRA on their asses and get them hooked on opiates and then force withdrawals till they talk?

The only thing that pisses me off is that politicians (none of which have faced anything more than a dentist drill in their lives) are sooooooo worried about aligning themselves with a party that they will think that torture or whatever sugar coated term they have for it, is an OK idea.