In dozens of top-secret talks and meetings in the White House, the most senior Bush administration officials discussed and approved specific details of how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, sources tell ABC News.
The so-called Principals who participated in the meetings also approved the use of "combined" interrogation techniques -- using different techniques during interrogations, instead of using one method at a time -- on terrorist suspects who proved difficult to break, sources said.
Highly placed sources said a handful of top advisers signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top al Qaeda suspects -- whether they would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning, called waterboarding.
And here's the document, it's in PDF format.
When someone's declared war on you, there are certain rules that need to be followed. It's called the Geneva Conventions. However, when one side breaks these rules in such a manner that they are a direct threat to all of mankind, they do not get to have the same protections that the Geneva Conventions affords.
That includes attacks on civilians, not wearing a uniform, hiding in mosques, and not fighting for a sovereign country. Al-Qaeda is all of these, and the fact that our government is being attacked for using these techniques to thwart another attack is disgusting at best.
A lot of people don't understand that Al-Qaeda isn't a threat just to America. They've threatened Europe, parts of Asia, and even Russia.
Yet, with them videotaping beheadings, attacking civilians for various reasons, and the murder of 3,000 people, there are still people who scream out in protest when they aren't treated with kid gloves.
We're not putting them into an industrial shredder. We're not cutting off limbs. We're not pouring acid on their faces.
Yet, the panty waist types out there make it sound like we are.
My basic technique that I would use it to say "Look, I'm going to ask you nicely and be polite to you. If you give me the information that I am seeking, I will make your life comfortable. I'll give you warm food, a comfortable place to sleep, etc. If you do not give me the information that I want, or you lie to me, I'm going to turn up the heat on you, to the point that I will do things like waterboarding."
In that scenario, the person is warned way ahead of time that it's nice way first, then it'll get uglier as time goes on.
Eventually, I'll get the information that I want.
Travis
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