Clap harder!
I wonder if anybody is left with the capacity to be surprised by the mendacious incompetence of the Bush administration. Bueller? Bueller?
Can anybody say they didn’t see this coming?
“There was constant pressure on the intelligence agencies and the interrogators to do whatever it took to get that information out of the detainees, especially the few high-value ones we had, and when people kept coming up empty, they were told by Cheney’s and Rumsfeld’s people to push harder,” he continued.
“Cheney’s and Rumsfeld’s people were told repeatedly, by CIA . . . and by others, that there wasn’t any reliable intelligence that pointed to operational ties between bin Laden and Saddam, and that no such ties were likely because the two were fundamentally enemies, not allies.”
Senior administration officials, however, “blew that off and kept insisting that we’d overlooked something, that the interrogators weren’t pushing hard enough, that there had to be something more we could do to get that information,” he said.
There’s this thing people invented, they call it “prison.” I’m pretty sure Dick Cheney will still be able to call up Sean Hannity from there, so what are we waiting for?
-jb
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