Guidebook to False Confessions": Key Document John Yoo Used to Draft Torture Memo Released
If HP is going to just be a news aggregated website, it should at least aggregate some accurate stories.
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You're half right.
It's to get false information, but it's got nothing to do with the wishes of the interrogators. The EIT order came from inside the White House.
It was to set up a justification to attack Iraq. To link 9/11 and Iraq. To link Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda.
About Torture
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Waterboarding is torture, and it's long settled law.
It wouldn't matter whether it works or not (it does; it'll get you confessions, lies, everything, just to make it stop) -- It wasn't used to get accurate information. It was used to get false information.
That has been proven, known, for some time now, and every article like this is just for disinformation purposes, to distract attention from that fact and keep the 'official line' in play. To keep you from asking, "Why was it used to get false information?"
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The road to our neverending wars in Afghanistan and Iraq lead right through JohnMurtha's seat in Congress, and witnessed by Paul Kanjorski.
To my knowledge, Paul Kanjorski is the one of several witnesses (all congressmen) who can directly place GeorgeWBush at the scene of the conspiracy to deceive Congress into backing the attack on Iraq with evidence falsified by the CIA.
It's through Kanjorski's account that we learn the BushCheney Administration's scheme, which included the CIA's fabricating photographs for the explicit purpose of deceiving Congress into authorizating the use of military force in Iraq.
http://www.counterpunch.org/brasch09032007.html
After you read that, read this, where JohnMurtha showed up again in this report (this got no reporting in the MSM), where Kanjorski told his constituents in a townhall meeting that he voted to give Bush the authorization to go to war in Iraq based on a briefing he attended with other congressmen at the WhiteHouse (with Bush & CondiRice) in which the CIA presented "smoking gun photos" of Iraq having the ability to fly nuclear/biological weapons to the US mainland.
The photos later turned out to have been faked by the CIA, staged in the southwest US:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/26/dick-cheneys-torture-kabuki/
The story then continues with JohnMurtha's role & intersects with the "Nancy Pelosi was briefed by the CIA on waterboarding/'No, I Wasn't'"-story (remember that?). It appears that Murtha was used by the CIA & BushCo to deceive the 'Gang of 8' and Congress about the waterboarding/torture. With this story (read here), we get some insight into how Cheney got all of his & Bush's crimes past congressional oversight (through his knowledge of how congressional subcommittees operated, from his earlier stint as a congressman):
Here's a background clip of the person that Marcy Wheeler/emptywheel references in the link above, Greg Sargent, who in this clip is being interviewed by Rachel Maddow about the Pelosi-CIA story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQD7ELc5Nmo
There's a part 1 to the clip, which is the lead-in where Rachel summarizes the situation before she gets to Greg Sargent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBjQ7Sv9u0Q
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The purpose of waterboarding was not to get real or accurate information: It was to get false information.
The videotapes would have shown that, and that is why they were destroyed.
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What US Taxpayers funded & What Obama's Covering Up --
CIA gave waterboarders $5M legal shield:
When the CIA decided to waterboard suspected terror detainees in overseas prisons, the agency turned to a pair of contractors. The men designed the CIA's interrogation program and also personally took part in the waterboarding sessions.
But to do the job, the CIA had to promise to cover at least $5 million in legal fees for them in case there was trouble down the road, former U.S. officials said.
Turns out the contractors needed that secret agreement as taxpayers pay to defend the men in a federal investigation over an interrogation tactic the United States now says is torture. The deal is even more generous than the protections the agency typically provides its own officers, giving the two men access to more money to finance their defenses.
It has long been known that psychologists Jim Mitchell and Bruce Jessen created the CIA's interrogation program. But former U.S. intelligence officials said Mitchell and Jessen also repeatedly subjected terror suspects inside CIA-run secret prisons to waterboarding, a simulated drowning tactic.
The revelation of the contractors' involvement is the first known confirmation of any individuals who conducted waterboarding at the so-called black sites, underscoring just how much the agency relied on outside help in its most sensitive interrogations.
Normally, CIA officers buy insurance to cover possible legal bills. It costs about $300 a year for $1 million in coverage. Today, the CIA pays the premiums for most officers, but at the height of the war on terrorism, officers had to pay half.
The Mitchell and Jessen arrangement, known as an "indemnity promise," was structured differently. Unlike CIA officers, whose identities are classified, Mitchell and Jessen were public citizens who received some of the earliest scrutiny by reporters and lawmakers. The two wanted more protection.
The agency agreed to pay the legal bills for the psychologists' firm, Mitchell, Jessen & Associates, directly from CIA accounts, according to several interviews with the former officials, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.
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