Gitmo interrogator speaks
Posted on February 17, 2008
Interrogators received intelligence from detainees that helped U.S. troops in Afghanistan attack Taliban fighters last summer — and they did it through casual questioning and not torture, the military’s chief interrogator here said.
In a rare interview with The Associated Press, veteran interrogator Paul Rester complained that his profession has gotten a bad reputation because of accounts of waterboarding and other rough interrogation tactics used by the CIA at “black sites.â€
Lawyers for Guantanamo detainees, however, allege their clients have been subjected to temperature extremes, sleep deprivation and threats at this U.S. military base in southeast Cuba.
Bryan Preston is one of my favorite writers in the blogosphere, and I wish I could get him to write here, but he is busy. He says everything that needs to be said on this better than I can. I wish I could lift his entire piece and paste it here, but that would be just wrong…so I’ll quote a big chunk and highly suggest you go over to Hot Air to read the rest.
It’s at this point that the MSNBC report ought to sidebar into who these lawyers are and who is paying for them (hint: they’re far far left ACLU and National Lawyers Guild types funded in part by Wahhabi money). MSNBC would also do well to report that some Gitmo lawyers have engaged in extracurricular activities on behalf of their clients. MSNBC would earn a big gold star if it also noted that al Qaeda trains its terrorists to make up allegations of mistreatment and torture if they’re captured so that the press and the left will run with those allegations and crack war morale. MSNBC also leaves out the fact that for all the “mistreatment,†our troops on Gitmo guard duty have been subjected to a whole range of attacks from the detainees, to whom our military gives Korans, prayer rugs, an arrow pointing the way to Mecca and meals that are better than those our own troops are eating in the fields of combat. For some reason, though MSNBC leaves all of that context out. I’ll add the sidebar that their layers of editors and fact checkers never add, since it’s important to evaluating what the terrorists and their lawyers say.
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You are so right about bryan. He is the class of the field. I don’t automatically look at a by line when i read pieces but I can be reading something on hotair and know without looking who wrote it.