NPR Minimizes Torture Again

[babsbunny]

http://www.correntewire.com/npr_minimizes_torture_again

not torture
NPR

Sat, 05/07/2011 - 6:10pm — Mytwords


On Thursday's ME, finishing up a series (see Tues. ATC & Wed. ATC) of cooperative reports on "enhanced" and "harsh" interrogations (known under US domestic and international law as torture) - Tom Gjelten was on with his handler, former CIA Director Michael Hayden, to set the record straight on the "debate" about "enhanced interrogations."
In the Thursday piece, Gjelten is explaining how some of the first leads in tracking down Osama Bin Laden's courier came "from detainees who were interrogated while in CIA custody." Gjelten tells us that "about a third of the CIA detainees were subjected to what the agency euphemistically called enhanced interrogation techniques." So far, so good. It's helpful that he describes CIA spin as euphemism. A listener might expect that the next step would be to have someone from the ACLU or Amnesty International or Human Rights Watch come on to detail just what these now-admitted techniques (and unadmitted ones) were and how many detainees didn't make it through the enhanced care of the CIA.

[Buzz Clik]

1. Another bullshit anti-NPR thread at DU. "Tom Gjelten was on with his handler"

:rofl:

[Buzz Clik]

3. I encourage everyone who reads this thread to listen to the NPR piece:

http://www.npr.org/2011/05/05/136005405/did-harsh-interrogation-tactics-lead-to-bin-laden

Just a quick listen will show what nonsense the article in the OP is.

Those who criticize NPR want the reporters to emulate Fox's approach in which they interrupt interviews to inject their opinions or red-meat reactions for their viewers. Those of us who listen to NPR want objective reporting, not political porn geared to stimulate the fancies of the extreme left.

[sketchy]

2. kick

n/t