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theagitator.com - 4/26/2009
Torture Roundup
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The “torturing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed saved Los Angeles” theory doesn’t work chronologically. The plot was allegedly foiled in 2002. Mohammed wasn’t captured until early 2003. One of Abu Zubaydah’s interrogators writes an op-ed in the New York Times . He says not ...
huffingtonpost.com - 4/29/2009
Hannity Waterboard Offer: Olbermann Increases The Pressure
— huffingtonpost.com — NEW YORK — The debate over torture is getting personal for two of cable TV's prime-time hosts.... After Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity made a seemingly impromptu offer last week to undergo waterboarding as a benefit for charity, MSNBC's Keith ... (more) Hannity Waterboard Offer: Olbermann Increases The Pressure

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Patterico's Pontifications:  Waterboarding Worked, Part 3: The WaPo Falls for the Lazy Argument on the Timing Issue of the Library Tower Attack

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Waterboarding Worked, Part 3: The WaPo Falls for the Lazy Argument on the Timing Issue of the Library Tower Attack
Patterico's Pontifications — ... of the changes in airport security after Sept. 11. And President George W. Bush, in a speech in 2007, said the plot was broken up in 2002, before Mohammed’s capture in Pakistan on March 1, 2003. Let’s place to one side the laughable notion that we should be reassured by our wonderful airport security, and focus on the timing issue raised here. This lazy approach to the issue has been accepted at face value by Tim Noah, Andrew Sullivan, Radley Balko, and any number of other people predisposed to argue against the style of ...

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