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Joe Scarborough's 6-minute defense of torture. (video)
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Joe Scarborough's 6-minute defense of torture. (video)
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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/12/09/scarborough-loves-tor ture

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Think Progress:  Scarborough: ‘That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever heard’ that torture doesn’t work.

The Latest on Air America:  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Monday, January 12, 2009

Firedoglake:  Scarborough Singing Torture’s Praises Again

Daily Kos:  Calling Your Bluff, Joe. Put Up or Shut Up.

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Scarborough: ‘That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever heard’ that torture doesn’t work.
Think Progress — Today on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough waged an ardent, six-minute defense of torture, arguing with the Financial Times’ Krystia Freeland that torture is always effective — and that waterboarding, sleep deprivation, and stress positions aren’t torture anyway. He mocked Freeland’s objections as “sophomoric” and declared that torture has saved American lives: SCARBOROUGH: Yes I do. Yes I do. And 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 Shaikh Mohammed opened doors that ...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Monday, January 12, 2009
The Latest on Air America — The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Monday, January 12, 2009

Scarborough Singing Torture’s Praises Again
Firedoglake — 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 ...

Calling Your Bluff, Joe. Put Up or Shut Up.
Daily Kos — The theme gets wider and deeper by the day. Cheney, Bush, Duncan Hunter, Karl Rove, Bill O'Reilly, William McGurn and a multitude of others all say torture works. They hint, or say directly, that Barack Obama would be foolish to give it up. They declare this would put America at risk of another 9/11. They say arguments to the contrary are "leftwing rubbish." Message: Not only should those who ordered and implemented torture not be prosecuted, they also deserve medals. Anybody who would deny U.S. intelligence agencies the torture tool undermines America and enables the mass murder of Americans. Joe Scarborough has joined the growing ...

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