Two Too Many Words

HuffPo headline today: "CIA Bans Use Of Water-Boarding During Interrogations"

So, what, now they can only use it during breaks between interrogations?

Ba-dump-bump-gurgle.

(And, yes, I see that at least one commenter beat me to the day's easiest one-liner. C'est la vie.)

I always wondered what different information you'd get from a drowned farmer than you'd get from a non-drowned farmer or, indeed, from the one-in-several actual baddies who happened to get scooped up in The Company's fast-cash-for-anybody-suspicious-or-ethnic-looking offer (kids full price). Now I guess we'll never know.

Comments

[Purple Girl]

Hey- watch out for our own asses. I was followed from an exit thru a small town, out to the country by a local cop. He even tried hiding behind a pick up truck that he allowed past him. He followed me for at least ten mile- mainly open or corn fields. I had not been speeding, nor anything crazy. He was stalking me- either for legal suspecion or unethic- I'm not sure. I slowed to 40 on a 55 just to try to get him to pull me over or pass me. He did neither. finally he turn left ( about 2 town lines later). Only reason I truely believe he followed me was my bumper stickers - PEACE in various philosophical symbols and "True patrriots defend the constitution" too radical, perhaps it was my Buddhist beads on the review mirror. RED NECK MENTALITY LIVES IN THE WHITE HOUSE FOR A REASON.
Perry Michigan, off I- 69 (actually it was Tuesday 9/11/07- he must of thought those were Jihad stickers because he couln't read :) :)

[Davis Sweet - Huffpost Blogger]

Yeh, them suspicious furriners sayin' "Peace be Upon Him" all the damn time, lib'rals puttin' peace pie stickers on their cars where the "America, We Stand as One" ribbon ought to be... This means war!

While I'm thinking about it, like anyone cares, the best part of that goofy "America, we stand as one" video from a couple years ago: the pigeons thrown into shot with their wings closed and flapping themselves crazy to get a grip on the air. 2:18. Almost as funny when you watch it on MUTE.

[OldKnute]

Oh my Stars!

What progress we are making.

Look what we are now having to deal with.

TRUTHS.

Our embassies are Spy safe-houses.
Our Government DOES or DID torture.
We DO keep secret prisons.
We admit to violations of BASIC human rights.
We DID alter the intelligence and justifications for war.
We HAVE invaded a sovereign countries on the bases of LIES.
We DO abduct foreign nationals on foreign soil, NOT in a war zone for torture and interrogation.
We DO over-fly nations without permission with prisoners aboard, in violation of international laws and for purposes of torture and some cough* accidental deaths have occurred.

What have we come to?????

Not MY America!

But yes, tears are one thing BOTH my eyes are capable of!

Yes, this WAS,, My America.

My,,,,,,, AMERICA.

My,,, America.

My,,, Am,,,,

All the best

Knute (Neo-LIB)

[sarge]

3 too many words. CIA....why not "U.S. bans torture"?...what have we become? In a limited, narrow way, we have now banned one specific form of torture! Isn't that decent of us!

[DruishAmericanPrincess]

Seems like it would be more appropriate to say c'est la guerre!

[Davis Sweet - Huffpost Blogger]

I had to look again, because I actually had that in the post at one point. Edited it out, I guess, because I wasn't at war with the poster.

[mommadona]

Why can't they just say it?
"Forced Near-Drowning".
There.

The other sounds like a fun day at the beach on your 'board', dude.

[Davis Sweet - Huffpost Blogger]

I always thought that too! "Hey, kids! Let's go WATERBOARDING!" It sounds like so much fun until you actually get strapped to the drowning thing.

[unitron]

I wonder if the CIA has a definition of "snowboarding" that differs from the commonly accepted one?