Heckuva Job, George, Dick, Jay, John, Rummy…
The Bush administration insisted that “enhanced interrogation techniques” — torture — were necessary to extract information from prisoners and keep Americans safe from terrorist attacks. Never mind that it was immoral, did huge damage to this country’s global standing and produced little important intelligence. Now, as we had feared, it is also making it much harder to try and convict accused terrorists.
Because federal judges cannot trust the confessions of prisoners obtained by intense coercion, they are regularly throwing out the government’s cases against Guantánamo Bay prisoners.
A new report prepared jointly by ProPublica and the National Law Journal showed that the government has lost more than half the cases where Guantánamo prisoners have challenged their detention because they were forcibly interrogated. In some cases the physical coercion was applied by foreign agents working at the behest of the United States; in other cases it was by United States agents.
By the time you get done reading the whole thing, your desk will have a six-inch deep imprint of your forehead. And here’s one last paragraph to gt you started:
Even in cases where the government later went back and tried to obtain confessions using “clean,” non-coercive methods, judges are saying those confessions too are tainted by the earlier forcible methods. In most cases, the prisoners have not actually walked free because the government is appealing the decisions. But the trend suggests that the government will continue to have a hard time proving its case even against those prisoners who should be detained.
The Bush Administration fucked it all up, the whole ball of wax. Bin Laden’s still alive, we lost in Iraq, we’re going to lose in Afghanistan, and now we have one more reminder of what happens when you put an incompentent C+ legacy student and his CIA father’s corrupt chums in charge of the government: when you try to skirt the law and due process, you end up losing. The bit on Binyam Mohamed’s torture is classic: they got the guy to name another prisoner as a terrorist… after they’d cut up his dick, stuck him in a cat carrier (or hung him by his thumbs from the ceiling, that’s what they mean by “stress position”), and kpt him awake for days and days under music blasting from loudspeakers. Gee, I wonder why the judge didn’t trust the evidence? I wonder how ashamed the Obama DOJ lawyers feel pushing cases this obviously flawed and weak? Personally, I’d recuse myself out of embarrassment and disrespect for my employer.
All of this was, of course, predicted by the rational people. Not that it matters.
So my remaining question is, when do we hang Jay Bybee and John Yoo on national TV from RFK Stadium?
And I mean that seriously: someone should be swinging, at the state’s expense, for a fuck up this big, this predictable, and this easily avidable. How much have we spent on this fucking war now? Trillions? Kajillions? Let’s just call it a mega-shit-ton of money and lives, and with absolutely NO FUCKING BENEFIT AT ALL.
August 30th, 2010 at 12:36 am
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