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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Says He Gave False Information to End Torture
Celebrity look-alikes


06/16/09
I know it works on me (sans polygraph, even).
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Judging from the photo, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed seems to be a reputable and honest man.
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Every informant, source or subject has some motivation to give you information. In the case of torture, the motivation is to end the unpleasant experience. If it is extra food or cigarettes, the motivation is the reward. It's not the type of motivation that makes the subject give bad info. It's the fact that he thinks he can satisfy the motivation by outsmarting the interrogator instead of telling the truth.
Torture is wrong and it is not something that we should be doing to human beings. However, the idea that KSM would hold up indefinitely to water-boarding while creating a bunch of clever lies is nonsense.
An example of how the lack of corroborating evidence is detrimental is the situation where a newspaper has to retract a story because it was based on one anonymous source that couldn't be corroborated.
I don't think that this waste of flesh should have been tortured, but his testimony that he lied is meaningless. We would expect the lies.
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Also, we're supposed to be smarter than this.
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But I'll also stick to the budget argument. I mean, we all know a big bureaucracy like the CIA is going to make every effort to spent its budget no matter what, but to use a firearms metaphor, there are ways of actually aiming a weapon that actually increase its effectiveness versus just spraying random fire.
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[www.washingtonpost.com]
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Abu Zubaida was not even an official member of al-Qaeda, according to a portrait of the man that emerges from court documents and interviews with current and former intelligence, law enforcement and military sources. Rather, he was a "fixer" for radical Muslim ideologues, and he ended up working directly with al-Qaeda only after Sept. 11 -- and that was because the United States stood ready to invade Afghanistan. "[/i]
Still, Cheney continues to lie about all the plots they foiled.
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Oh, wait ...
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