{"id":56226,"date":"2014-12-09T13:43:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T20:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=56226"},"modified":"2014-12-09T15:52:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T22:52:38","slug":"two-of-the-central-lies-of-torture-apologetics-are-now-buried-with-a-stake-through-its-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/12\/two-of-the-central-lies-of-torture-apologetics-are-now-buried-with-a-stake-through-its-heart.html","title":{"rendered":"Two of the central lies of Torture Apologetics are now buried with stakes through their hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

The beloved lies that \u201conly three high value targets\u201d were tortured<\/a>\u00a0and that the torture amounted to nothing more than a \u201cdunking<\/a>\u201c:<\/p>\n

1. The CIA used previously unreported tactics, including \u201crectal feeding\u201d of detainees (p. 100, footnote 584):<\/p>\n

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2. CIA officers threatened the children of detainees (p. 4):<\/p>\n

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3. Over 20 percent of CIA detainees were \u201cwrongfully held.\u201d One was an \u201cintellectually challenged\u201d man who was held so the CIA could get leverage over his family (p. 12):<\/p>\n

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4. One detainee, Abu Hudhaifa, was subjected to \u201cice water baths\u201d and \u201c66 hours of standing sleep deprivation\u201d before being released because the CIA realized it probably had the wrong man (p. 16, footnote 32):<\/p>\n

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5. The CIA, contra what it told Congress, began torturing detainees before even determining whether they would cooperate (p. 104):<\/p>\n

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6. CIA officers began torturing Khalid Sheikh Mohammed \u201ca few minutes\u201d after beginning to question him (p. 108):<\/p>\n

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7. The CIA planned to detain KSM incommunicado for the rest of his life, without charge or trial (p. 9):<\/p>\n

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8. During waterboarding sessions, KSM made up a story that Al Qaeda was trying to recruit African-American Muslims\u2026in Montana (p. 118):<\/p>\n

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9. In 2003, Bush gave a speech at a UN event condemning torture and calling on other nations to investigate and prosecute torture allegations. The statement was so at odds with US practices that the CIA contacted the White House to make sure enhanced interrogation techniques were still okay (pp. 209-210):<\/p>\n

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10. The CIA torturers told CIA leadership that torture wasn\u2019t producing good information from KSM. But CIA leaders didn\u2019t relay that information to Congress (p. 212):<\/p>\n

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11. A detainee was tortured for not addressing an interrogator as \u201csir\u201d\u2014and for complaining about a stomach ache (p. 106):<\/p>\n

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12. CIA officers cried when they witnessed the waterboarding of\u00a0Abu Zubaydah<\/a>\u00a0(p. 44):<\/p>\n

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13. Within weeks of his arrival in CIA custody, Zubaydah was \u201con life support and unable to speak\u201d (p. 30):<\/p>\n

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14. Bush Justice Department official Jay Bybee, who is now a federal judge, told Congress the torture of Al Qaeda detainees led to the US capture of\u00a0Jose Padilla<\/a>. That wasn\u2019t true (p. 207):<\/p>\n

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15. The secretary of state wasn\u2019t informed when the CIA made secret deals to open detention facilities abroad (p. 123):<\/p>\n

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16. Even President George W. Bush wasn\u2019t informed where the facilities were\u2014because he feared he\u2019d \u201caccidentally disclose\u201d the information (p. 124):<\/p>\n

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