Bush Boasted about Tortured Captive

[BuyingThyme]

Bush Boasted about Tortured Captive

By Jason Leopold
March 8, 2009

About the time President George W. Bush was boasting of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri’s capture in late 2002, the alleged mastermind of the USS Cole bombing was undergoing waterboarding, according to top-secret documents released in a New York federal court case.


One heavily censored page of what appears to be a CIA internal report about the torture of “war on terror” detainees reads: “Interrogators administered waterboard to Al-Nashiri.”

The same page indicates that a dozen of 92 destroyed videotapes of the CIA’s interrogations were of detainees undergoing brutal treatment. “There are 92 videotapes, 12 of which include EIT applications,” the page says.

Though U.S. officials confirmed more than a year ago that al-Nashiri and two other detainees were subjected to the drowning sensation of waterboarding, the page, which was released on Friday, represents rare documented evidence that the technique, regarded as torture at least since the Inquisition, was used against prisoners in American custody.

On Dec. 3, 2002, President Bush cited the capture of al-Nashiri as an important victory in the “war on terror.” In a speech to an excited crowd at the fairgrounds in Shreveport, Louisiana, Bush declared:

“The other day we hauled a guy in named al-Nashiri. It's not a household name here in America. I can understand why some go blank when they hear his name. But he was the al-Qaeda commander in the Gulf States.

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/030709c.html

[Richard D]

1. I wonder when we find out about . . .

. . . bush and cheney's closed circuit TV.

[spanone]

9. perhaps they were active participants? sounds like cheney's idea of fun

[Tangerine LaBamba]

2. Jason Leopold?

As soon as I see that name, I read no further. The guy's bogus and I wouldn't believe anything he writes.

Here's a nice little bit on Leopold - from the Columbia Journalism Review, no less:

http://www.cjr.org/politics/jason_leopold_caught_sourceles.php

[geek tragedy]

3. Rove will be indicted THIS WEEK!!!! n/t

[Tangerine LaBamba]

4. Yes, that's right...........

Except it's a secret indictment so it's sealed. And he has twenty-four business hours to get his affairs in order. And the law firm where his lawyer works was locked down for fifteen hours. And how blindly gullible could people be to believe the crap that was spewed at truthout by Leopold and Pitt? Utter nonsense.

If you want a great big laugh, read Leopold's entry at wikipedia. He's obviously written it himself - not a hint of scandal, nothing about plagiarism, faking stories, etc. And then read the Columbia Journalism Article at the link I posted above.

What's really astonishing, as the CJR pointed out, is that anyone - anyone with half a brain - hires him to write anything.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. lol! and the battles that ensued here over him!

[Egnever]

5. What I want to know is

If they got anything useful from the sessions. Anything that saved one American life or iraqi life for that matter.

[BuyingThyme]

6. No.

But they'll tell you yes.

[Egnever]

7. They have been trying to tell me yes for a while now

all the while denying it was going on at all. I am not so impressed by what "they" have to say.

[BuyingThyme]

10. kcik