outsidethebeltway.com - 4/19/2009
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Marcy Wheeler picks an interesting factoid out of the “Bradford memo,” one of several documents detailing the interogation techniques used by the U.S. intelligence community released last week by the Obama administration” Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in ...
Prove It
mahablog.com 4/19/2009 — We’ve learned that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in one month. This begs the question: If torture is so good at extracting information, why did it need to be applied 183 times in one month?
Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002. Of this, CIA officials ...
Today's Sickening Calculation
discourse.net 4/19/2009 — Emptywheel » Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Was Waterboarded 183 Times in One Month .
I cannot get my mind around how anyone can seriously argue that this isn’t certain to happen again unless some people are tried and convicted for these acts ...
Waterboarded 183 Times in a Month
newshoggers.com 4/19/2009 — By BJ Bjornson
This post deserves a great deal of attention.
I've put this detail in a series of posts, but it really deserves a full post. According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March ...
183 times
washingtonmonthly.com 4/19/2009 — 183 TIMES.... Marcy Wheeler scrutinized some of the Bush administration's torture memos and discovered a striking statistic. According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah ...
The Bybee Memo Can’t be Used for Good Faith Defense on Water-Boarding
emptywheel.firedoglake.com 4/17/2009 — The March 10, 2005 "Techniques" memo makes it clear that the torturers who claim the Bybee memo legalized their water-boarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah are wrong.
That's because the torturers didn't do what the memo ...
McCain Unequivocally Says That Waterboarding is Torture
librarygrape.com 4/20/2009 — Credit where credit is due. Sen. John McCain on Fox News this morning said, in no uncertain terms, that waterboarding is undoubtedly torture. Reacting to the fact that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times , McCain had this to say: One is too much. Waterboarding is torture, period. I ...
Waterboarding “Guidelines” and CIA Prosecutions —
The Moderate Voice
Marcy Wheeler’s Saturday piece reporting that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah were waterboarded a total of at least 266 times has caught a lot of well-deserved attention — most notably from Scott Shane, who credited Marcy as the source for his article in today’s New ...
Torture Takeaway: It's Not Effective —
TalkLeft
As Big Tent Democrat and the New York Times noted, Marcy Wheeler of Empty Wheel broke the story of the number of times the C.I.A. used waterboarding on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah. Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in a month. That's an average of 6 times a day. Doesn't this show ...
Journalistic Credit —
TalkLeft
The NYTimes reported : The new information on the number of waterboarding episodes [of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah] came out over the weekend when a number of bloggers, including Marcy Wheeler of the blog emptywheel , discovered it in the May 30, 2005, memo. (Emphasis supplied.) ...
The Frequently Ticking Time Bomb —
Matthew Yglesias
Marcy Wheeler offers some close reading and observes that “According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002.”
This should, I think, put to rest the notion that ...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Waterboarded 183 Times One Month —
PoliGazette
Or so says liberal blogger EmptyWheel at least:
According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo , Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002.
On page 37 of the OLC memo, in a passage discussing the differences ...
Still trying to wrap my head around this... —
Rising Hegemon
Cannot fucking believe it -- I know it's the Bush regime so I should never be stunned but this is shocking : According to the May 30, 2005 Bradbury memo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times in March 2003 and Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times in August 2002. 183, that's an ...
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