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To: Sully- who wrote (11521)	7/16/2005 2:13:49 AM
From: Sully-	of 35834

If we hadn't had politicians using bombast and hyperbole to characterize Gitmo, this story wouldn't have come out. Betsy's Page The American Armed Forces Press has news in their discussion of the treatment of the prisoners at Gitmo that should have been in every media outlet. You know that guy that had to wear women's underwear and was otherwise degraded? You know, the guy who admitted proudly that he was to have been the 20th hijacker on September 11th. Well, it seems that the interrogation techniques that made the New York Times complain that we were turning our female interrogators into lap dancers have actually been successful in getting this guy to talk and tell us information we wanted. <<< "He described the facilitators he met along the way, the methods of financing the (Sept. 11) operation, the way he obtained his U.S. visa, and the logistics involved in traveling to the United States and communicating with his handlers along the way," Craddock said. By the fall of 2002 Kahtani had successfully resisted all interrogation techniques for eight months, so interrogators at Guantanamo requested, and received, permission to use more aggressive techniques. Craddock said officials were particularly interested in information about any possible attacks on the one-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. The application of these more aggressive techniques between November 2002 and January 2003 "led to breaking Kahtani's resistance and to solid intelligence gains," Craddock said. >>> This was always my main question about the techniques used in interrogation. Did they work? If they did, fine. Send in the ladies and start dancing. And the senators who were having coniptions that such treatment might lead the enemy to treat our guys worse if captured than the gentle Geneva convention treatment that we know the terrorists are inclined to use with those they capture can answer to the American people why they wouldn't want us to use all the methods we can to get someone like Kahtani to talk. And note that there was not torture or deprivation involved in these techniques. Think of how their hyperventilating has actually achieved that which they wanted to avoid. If we hadn't had politicians using bombast and hyperbole to characterize Gitmo, this story wouldn't have come out. The senators could have had a closed-door hearing, but it needn't have been made public. So, those that the senators didn't want to offend wouldn't have known about the women's underwear story. Aren't some things just better kept secret. We don't have any need to know publicly what is going on at Gitmo. The senators can provide oversight and keep their big mouths shut. If that is possible. betsyspage.blogspot.com lincolntribune.com betsyspage.blogspot.com betsyspage.blogspot.com

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