Many say "waterboarding" is torture, including the former CIA agent discussed in this story.
Nor does he like torture. He wishes we wouldn't do it any more.
But he also says the use of waterboarding back in 2002 saved lives, and that it's use was probably necessary at the time.
Whether we should use forms of interrogation such as this, in this day and age, is not the easy question some unthinking moralists make it out to be.
Showing posts with label war on terror; torture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war on terror; torture. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Thursday, September 13, 2007
Water-boarding KSM
Confessed terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed--because he was subjected to water-boarding. Quote: "Water-boarding has been denounced as "torture" by human rights groups and many U.S. officials, including Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who likened it to a mock execution.
But what if that one episode of water-boarding KSM had not occurred? It is a question at the center of the debate over the harshest technique in the CIA's repertoire that has raged for three years now, a time frame, intelligence officials note, in which the technique has not been used.
Would the agency have eventually worn KSM down?"
We can't be sure. Torture is nothing we want to take lightly. But in this day and age, and given the kind of terrorists we're dealing with, it doesn't seem all that sensible to take its use completely off the table.
But what if that one episode of water-boarding KSM had not occurred? It is a question at the center of the debate over the harshest technique in the CIA's repertoire that has raged for three years now, a time frame, intelligence officials note, in which the technique has not been used.
Would the agency have eventually worn KSM down?"
We can't be sure. Torture is nothing we want to take lightly. But in this day and age, and given the kind of terrorists we're dealing with, it doesn't seem all that sensible to take its use completely off the table.
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