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Lamont Cranston · 05.17.2009, 04:39 AM

well for all you ghouls out there here are 60 of them: http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2006/...890771990.html
it appears to be more of that originally released set, that guy with the glasses and mustache is the same
"Lawrence Wilkerson, aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, alleges that the main impetus for torturing prisoners in 2002- early 2003 was not to foil terrorist plots but rather to scare up evidence of a Saddam-al-Qaeda tie. US interrogators never found such a link"
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS.../iraq.torture/

I'd also add that a pretty good judge of if the 'preventing further terrorism' argument had any merit they'd be citing examples, the Bush administration leaked information like a sieve both accidentally from outraged individuals and more importantly deliberately to score cheap political points* - so any Top Secret argument goes out the window.
*which incidentally this claim means that is also what the torture was about rather than crazed desperate men believing they're really doing good after watching too many episodes of 24

05.17.2009, 04:39 AM	#47
Lamont Cranston 100% Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 725	well for all you ghouls out there here are 60 of them: http://www.smh.com.au/ftimages/2006/...890771990.html it appears to be more of that originally released set, that guy with the glasses and mustache is the same "Lawrence Wilkerson, aide to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, alleges that the main impetus for torturing prisoners in 2002- early 2003 was not to foil terrorist plots but rather to scare up evidence of a Saddam-al-Qaeda tie. US interrogators never found such a link" http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS.../iraq.torture/ I'd also add that a pretty good judge of if the 'preventing further terrorism' argument had any merit they'd be citing examples, the Bush administration leaked information like a sieve both accidentally from outraged individuals and more importantly deliberately to score cheap political points* - so any Top Secret argument goes out the window. *which incidentally this claim means that is also what the torture was about rather than crazed desperate men believing they're really doing good after watching too many episodes of 24 __________________ This is how it will all end: not with floods, earthquakes, falling comets or gigantic crabs roaming the Earth. No, doomsday will start simply out of indifference.
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