Scarborough Singing Torture’s Praises Again
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firedoglake.com — Joe Scarborough weighs in this morning with an opinion on the effectiveness of torture on Kalid Shaikh Mohammed : SCARBOROUGH: I know for a fact that waterboarding brought our interrogators, brought Americans, probably about 70-75 percent of what they get. What they got from Khalid ...
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Frank Naif: You Call This Pressure on Obama to Keep Torturing?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... been involved in torture and extrajudicial imprisonment. And does anybody who matters think that torture is worth the cost to American greatness? Republican cheerleaders such as Joe Scarborough, like, totally think torture is totally awesome! This past Monday morning Scarborough exclaimed, "I know for a fact that waterboarding brought our interrogators, brought Americans, probably about 70-75 percent of what they get." Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake debunked Scarborough's ridiculous claim right away, citing The Dark Side by ...

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