Senior Administration Official on Ghailani: We Convicted a Guy the Bush Administration Tortured

[kpete]

....the government case against Ghailani was undermined precisely by Bush and Cheney and their foaming-at-the-mouth supporters on the Right, which increasingly deserves to be called simply American Fascism. The case was undermined by the use of torture.
http://www.juancole.com/2010/11/bush-cheney-use-of-torture-derails-ghailani-prosecution.html

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Senior Administration Official on Ghailani: We Convicted a Guy the Bush Administration Tortured

“So, we tried a guy (who the Bush Admin tortured and then held at GTMO for 4-plus years with no end game whatsoever) in a federal court before a NY jury with full transparency and international legitimacy and — despite all of the legacy problems of the case (i.e., evidence getting thrown out because of Bush-Admin torture, etc,) we were STILL able to convict him and INCAPACITATE him for essentially the rest of his natural life, AND there was not one — not one — security problem associated with the trial.”

“Would it have been better optically if he had been convicted of more counts? Sure. Would it have made any practical difference? No.”

more:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/11/senior-administration-official-defends-ghailani-trial-verdict.html

[rfranklin]

1. The right wing nuts want torture and execution...

It makes them feel empowered. They are fearful people who feel weak and threatened. It only by such demonstrations of violence that they begin to feel in control of the world around them.

[xchrom]

2. Recommend

[lumberjack_jeff]

3. "optically"?

Surely there are less stupid ways of saying that "it would have looked better".

[Solly Mack]

4. Yep. We sure did. (convict a man that the US government tortured - with impunity)

K&R