“Some people say Baker’s reckless charges have severely damaged Spc. Baker’s morale and crippled his ability to extract information from Al Qaeda prisoners — information that could save American lives,” reported Fox News personality Brit Hume. “They’re demanding that Baker retract his allegations and offer a full apology to Spc. Baker.”
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June 20, 2005
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“Getting IRFed at X-Ray meant receiving a good old-fashioned ass whipping, after which the lucky detainee would be hogtied, made to kneel with his hands behind his back and foot shackles locked together, for four hours,” saysMr Saar.
’They will do what is needed to get the information – and fast’
At Bagram, where the White House argues that al-Qa’eda prisoners are “unlawful combatants” and thus not entitled to the protection of the Geneva Convention, the CIA has carte blanche to employ the “stress and duress” techniques that it has honed since the Vietnam war.
As one informed CIA official puts it: “Let’s just say we are not averse to a little smacky face. After all, if you don’t violate a prisoner’s human rights some of the time then you aren’t doing your job.”
Posted by: Outraged | Jun 20 2005 7:20 utc | 1
Baker seems to have forgotten how well fed he would have been during the nominal incarceration that would have preceded his nominal beating.
Chicken almondine!
I think the defense should simply investigate whether or not Baker received the Gitmo fusion cuisine, and if he did… well, clearly the Pentagon would already have balanced the scales of justice: case closed.
Ask a U.S. Congressman. no, really…
Posted by: citizen | Jun 20 2005 16:29 utc | 2
Citizen —
LMAO: “Gitmo fusion cuisine”
ditto the balanced scales
Weird that SCOTUS didn’t include a culinary option in the Rasul and Hamdi decisions. Who needs a hearing when you’re getting two kinds of fruit???
Posted by: Noodles Jefferson | Jun 20 2005 17:42 utc | 3
It was the “Warning: Satire Alert!” braces that I found the most cynical.
Posted by: s9 | Jun 20 2005 18:46 utc | 4
It was the “Warning: Satire Alert!” braces that I found the most cynical.
I had to: Some people really believed it.
Posted by: Billmon | Jun 20 2005 19:24 utc | 5
I had to: Some people really believed it.
why wouldn’t they? it aint like Limbaugh never said stuff like that.
Posted by: dan of steele | Jun 20 2005 19:54 utc | 6