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Correcting the record on the waterboarding of KSM
Sister Toldjah —
... Fox News has a report that will garner little to no attention from the mainstream press on the issue of how many times KSM was waterboarded before he started singing. Popular news outlets, citing figures from the memos Obama released on EITs, have reported that it was done to him “183 times” - which is not the case: ...
Surprise! Media Lied About KSM Being Waterboarded 183 Times
JammieWearingFool —
This piece of garbage may have had water poured on him 183 times, but it wasn't waterboarding . Let's see how fast all the media outlets and leftwing blogs who breathlessly reported this go and correct themselves. The New York Times reported last week that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, was waterboarded 183 times in one month by CIA interrogators. The "183 times" was widely circulated by news outlets throughout the world . It was shocking . And it was highly misleading . The number is a vast inflation , according to ...
Why Are They Telling Me What I Was Telling You, Fox News Edition
JustOneMinute —
Fox News reads the OLC memos , does some arithmetic, talks to some people, and comes to the same conclusion I reached on April 20 . Here is the breaking news from Fox: The New York Times reported last week [ link ] that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, was waterboarded 183 times in one month by CIA interrogators. The "183 times" was widely circulated by news outlets throughout the world. It was shocking. And it was highly misleading. The number is a vast inflation, according to information from a U.S. ...
Gallup: 55% support harsh interrogations of terrorists
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... agree. Democrats - much like Democratic representatives in Congress — are more divided. Forty-six percent say Congress should hold hearings, while fifty-one percent say they are not necessary. Interestingly, the NYT poll has a 46/37 plurality saying that waterboarding is never justified, which may mean, per the Gallup results, that Americans are okay with most other forms of harsh interrogation but turn squeamish at that one in particular. I wonder what percentage of them have the wrong idea of what it means : A U.S. official with knowledge of the interrogation program told ...
Fox: Waterboarding Numbers "Highly Misleading"
Weekly Standard Blog —
Joseph Abrams reports for Fox:
The New York Times reported last week that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, was waterboarded 183 times in one month by CIA interrogators. The "183 times" was widely circulated by news outlets throughout the world.
It was shocking. And it was highly misleading. The number is a vast inflation, according to information from a U.S. official and the testimony of the terrorists themselves.
A U.S. official with knowledge of the interrogation program told ...
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Despite Reports, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Was Not Waterboarded 183 Times
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... Despite Reports, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Was Not Waterboarded 183 Times
The New York Times reported last week that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, was waterboarded 183 times in one month by CIA interrogators. The "183 ...
Only 183 POURS? Oh, Well, That's Alright Then
Preemptive Karma —
... April 29, 2009 Only 183 POURS? Oh, Well, That's Alright Then FOX News : A U.S. official with knowledge of the interrogation program told FOX News that the much-cited figure represents the number of times water was poured onto Mohammed's face -- not the number of times the CIA applied the simulated-drowning technique on the terror suspect. According to a 2007 Red Cross report, he was subjected a total of "five sessions of ill-treatment." "The water was poured 183 times -- there were 183 pours," the official explained, adding that "each pour was a matter of seconds." Well, he ...
183 pours, not 183 waterboards
Majikthise —
And the award for the least convincing attempt to spin torture goes to.... Joseph Abrams of Fox News who claims that Khalid Sheik Mohammed was not waterboarded 183 times. No, he says, that's a gross exaggeration. Despite what some pinkos would have you believe, the interrogators just covered his face with a cloth and interrupted his breathing by dousing him with water 183 times, spread over a total of five sessions. So, they didn't waterboard him on 183 separate occasions, they kept him strapped down in between attempts: The New York Times ...
Not as wet as previously reported
Power Line —
... It turns out that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was not waterboarded 183 times in one month by CIA interrogators, as the liberal MSM widely reported. Instead, according to Joseph Abrams of Fox News, 183 represents the number of times water was poured onto Mohammed's face -- not the number of times the CIA applied the simulated-drowning technique on him. Abrams cites a 2007 Red Cross report which states that the terror mastermind was subjected to a total of "five sessions of ill-treatment." ...
What is it about “last resort” that Obama doesn’t get?
Uncommon Misconceptions —
... And lest anybody missed it: the two suspects were not “waterboarded 266 times.” They were waterboarded less than 15 times, but during the sessions, water was applied 266 times. Which means they kept track of, and documented, the exact number of times they applied water during each session. ...
Bad Idea: Five Gitmo Combatant-Detainees to be Tried in New York
Ace of Spades HQ —
... and sending these guys to criminal trials. His minders probably pulled him aside twenty minutes after sitting down in the Oval Office an explained that if he did that, he'd never see a second term. As a result, we have this bifurcated prosecution. Some go to criminal trials, some go to military commissions and not a rhyme or reason to it except the President wants to be reelected. Sidebar: that number, 183, has become the received wisdom on KSM's waterboarding. It is not actually the number of times he was waterboarded and it's a shame that the NY Post is repeating it. ...
