"dark and dank and horrific"-Bush White House has its own interrogation room.

[kpete]

Bush White House has its own interrogation room.

In Ron Suskind’s new book, Suskind describes a disturbing case in Washington, D.C., where security officials detained and interrogated Usman Khosa, a Pakistani U.S. college graduate, because he was “fiddling” with his iPod near White House gates. Officials took Khosa to an interrogation room “beneath” the White House:

He turns as a large uniformed man lunges at him. The backpack!” the man yells, pushing Usman against the Italianate gates in front of Treasury and ripping off his backpack. Another officer on a bicycle arrives from somewhere and tears the backpack open, dumping its contents on the sidewalk. <…>

Usman is trundled from the SUV, escorted through the West Gate, and onto the manicured grounds. No one speaks as the agents walk him behind the gate’s security station, down a stairwell, along an underground passage, and into a room — cement-walled box with a table, two chairs, a hanging light with a bare bulb, and a mounted video camera. Even after all the astonishing turns of the past hour, Usman can’t quite believe there’s actually an interrogation room beneath the White House, dark and dank and horrific.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/07/bush-white-house-has-its-own-interrogation-room/

[aquart]

1. So we could waterboard Bush in the comfort of home?

[Greyskye]

2. Any better links?

Never mind. Thanks for the fix.

[onehandle]

3. Uh, I would guess that the White House has had an "interrogation room" for decades.

I think they have some sort of service too. Let's call it a "Secret Service."

[XemaSab]

15. A Secret Service?

How can they reconcile that with the constitution?

Ya know, the other day I went down to the liquor store and there was this big dude hanging out... he looked like he might be Italian, you know, with the spiky hair and big cross? I bet he was one of those "Secret Service" guys.

I'm going to go lock my doors and call the cops. :scared:

[SalmonChantedEvening]

4. Some people should not be allowed to watch war movies.

They can't help but act them out.

Another shame on us courtesy of these animals. :grr:

[nickyt]

5. "dark and dank and horrific" - perfect description of this current cabal. n/t

[peacetalksforall]

11. It's the first floor going DOWN on the way to Dick's office. Seriously,

did you catch the reference to VIDEO CAMERA?

[tannybogus]

6. It's called the Oval Office.

:evilgrin:

[DearAbby]

7. Bushit's personal version of "COPS UNCENSORED!!"

why the hell is there an interrogation room at the white house?

[electropop]

17. It used to be called the movie theatre.

Bush eats a lot of popcorn in there.

[bananas]

8. Makes you wonder what torture chambers were built under Cheney's house

Probably connected by an underground tunnel to the White House.
There could be people chained to the walls down there.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE2DC143AF932A25751C1A9649C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

Disco Dick Cheney
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: December 11, 2002

Some hush-hush bang-bang is going on at the vice president's house: big blasts twice a day, morning and night, that cause the whole neighborhood to quake and shake.

Rattled neighbors cannot learn what's going on at Mr. Cheney's Disclosed Location from the Navy, which maintains the official residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory.

<snip>

[Skink]

9. Torture and Bowling.

[DCKit]

10. That's where Dick Cheney sleeps during the day. n/t

[elehhhhna]

12. Jeffylube Gannon's toothbrush is in there. I just know it.

[AnnieBW]

13. Condi's got her Jackboots on

Dick's got his gun. Whee-haaa! We're gonna torture us a real, live, Ay-rab!

[dsotm-wywh]

14. Is this really surprising to anyone?

There are many underground tunnels, rooms, areas all over DC. Even a few years back when I went on one of those "special" tours you can set up with your Senator if you call ahead of time, they took us in the tunnel where the Senate offices are to the Capitol Building and they told us that the tunnels run all the way underground to the White House and there are tunnels from both of those places over to the Pentagon. There's a whole world under Washington where pretty much anything can go on.

[eppur_se_muova]

16. "Fiddling with iPod" = off to Guanomo. What a world. nt

[Cleita]

18. The good news is that when Bush and Cheney are arrested, authorities will

have a place already set up to interrogate them. Yeah, I know when pigs fly. It makes me happy thinking about the possibility though.

[bluesmail]

19. The location where Tim Russert got his leg dislocated.

????.....:evilgrin: