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Bush’s Torture Policy Kills Americans
Wonk Room —
... Pseudonymous Air Force interrogator Matthew Alexander published an important item in yesterday’s Washington Post, noting what a disgrace the Bush administration’s embrace of torture has been. I think this section bears emphasis: ...
I'm in the room without a light, The room without a view
SteveAudio —
I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq I should have felt triumphant when I returned from Iraq in August 2006. Instead, I was worried and exhausted. My team of interrogators had successfully hunted down one of the most notorious mass murderers of our generation, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq and the mastermind of the campaign of suicide bombings that had helped plunge Iraq into civil war. But instead of celebrating our success, my mind was consumed with the unfinished business of our mission: fixing the deeply ...
The Torture PR Offensive
Daily Kos —
... What works? Smart, targetted intelligence. I'm turning into a broken record on this, but we need to listen to the guy who was in the trenches in the fight against terrorism: ...
Fox News Defends Bush Administration’s Use Of Torture
Think Progress —
... ,” he said. “In the real world it doesn’t happen.” And torture doesn’t “protect” anyone, as Kristol claimed. In fact, it has been directly linked to increased casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s lead interrogator noted: ...
Matthew Alexander: McCain Backs Torture as Recruiting Tool for Al Qaida; Policy Led to the Deaths of U.S. Soldiers in Iraq
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Since writing an op-ed ("I'm Still Torture by What I Saw in Iraq", Nov '08) for the Washington Post over nine months ago stating that the U.S. policy of torture and abuse was Al Qaida's number one recruiting tool and ultimately caused the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands, of American soldiers in Iraq, several critics have questioned the validity of my argument. I based my opinion on my personal experience in conducting and supervising over 1,300 interrogations and on statistics compiled by my Task Force and briefed to us by a DoD expert on foreign fighters in Iraq. ...
