Reply #16: Everything was a lie and a fraud, right down to the "keeping us safe" meme [View All]

[donkeyotay]

of preventing attacks on America. How many of those color-coded terra alerts were based on someone being tortured in a Bush-approved dungeon? All of them?

Zubaydah was water-boarded, beaten, threatened, subjected to mock executions, and… Under such duress… (Zubaydah) said yes over and over again when asked if Al Qaeda was interested in bombing shopping malls, banks, supermarkets, nuclear plants, apartment buildings, and water systems… After each vague affirmation, the “information” was quickly cabled back to Washington, where it ended up in the president’s daily briefing and in FBI warnings that invariably leaked to the media. Many of the breathless and panicked warnings of Al Qaeda plots that marked the Bush-Cheney administration’s first term, with its periodic orange alerts that came to nothing, came from Zubaydah’s interrogation.

K'd, R'd and bookmarked.