John Kiriakou and the torture debate

A newly declassified CIA report states that waterboarding was used 83 times on Abu Zubaydah and 183 times on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.  In 2007, John Kiriakou stated that waterboarding was used only once on Zubaydah before he began to talk.  It doesn’t take more than elementary logic to conclude that either waterboarding doesn’t work well, the CIA was torturing its prisoners unnecessarily, or John Kiriakou made up lies to tell on national public television to get the CIA and the Bush Administration off the hook.  Or, of course, more than one of the above.

Sad times we live in.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/world/20detain.html

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