So if I read the links correctly (and I believe I did ;^), the interrogators that don’t use the so-called “enhanced” interrogation techniques are pleased that they won’t be allowed to use them… Big Deal. How do the folks that did use the “enhanced” interrogation techniques feel about – if they agreed it would be noteworthy, as it is, it is a few fellows that are happy the administration agrees with them.

Personally, I agree that the so-called “enhanced” interrogation techniques are likely in-effective, but I also feel that our enemies should fear capture rather than welcome three hots and a flop in a tropical resort (Cuba).

I wish there was another metric, I like to support my arguments with citations, but this filter dis-encourages that practice.

Thanks for the clarification.

You tread dangerously close to the troll line.

our enemies”: specious. Many are clearly not anyone’s enemies – or were, prior to capture and torture.

“three hots and a flop”: 23 hour lockdown in solitary (many have gone mad), random torture, no charge or trial….

“tropical resort”, tell me, do you not understand that there were no attacks on the USA in the past seven years because those who would realized their work was being done for them by the torturers and their fan-boys?

http://www.vancouversun.com/Health/Khadr+child+soldier+Harper/1211864/story.html

Personally, I agree that the so-called “enhanced” interrogation techniques are likely in-effective, but I also feel that our enemies should fear capture rather than welcome three hots and a flop in a tropical resort (Cuba).

How do we know the prisoners at Gitmo are our enemies, again? Oh never mind. We’d best use those ineffective torture techniques on them just in case.

Sure, all of those other things are irrelevant – but the watch is the real proof!

Come on, nobody is *that* dumb to hold anyone over a watch. But suppose that one day an Wikipedia article gets a description on how to create a doomsday weapon with an iPhone and 1 kg of “substance X” and a week later there’s suddenly a surge of iPhones and “substance X” mail orders to a few specific addresses already under suspicion – it’s very safe to assume that possession of iPhones must be included among reasons for incarceration *in these particular cases*.

That kind of evidence would explain the hundreds of trials and convictions. Oh, wait…..

If anyone can show me that these watches are the SOLE reason for being detained it’d be greatly appreciated.*

*I am not condoning torture or any of that, I’m just not that easily misled.

I worry that all of Obama’s “Change” will be like this, lip-service and window dressing while leaving the core of the Bush Regime’s absurd abuses in tact.

Eventually I painted the screen black and used it as a prop in a science fiction movie. To me, in the late 1980′s, that watch looked like a futuristic blade-runner type of watch.

They are cheap, reliable, and a reason why 28 prisoners have been held in extrajudicial detention in Guantanamo.(Emphasis added)

Let’s be clear, posession of these watches can be cited as a reason these detainees are, well, detained, but it is not the sole reason they were detained. Posession of the watch is not the primary reason those 28 folks are being detained.

It’s a clever angle to make a point, but it could be a bit misleading – the careful reader will pick up the distinction.

from Wikipedia Philippines Flight 434…
“When Yousef went into the lavatory with his dopp kit in hand, he took off his shoes to get the batteries, wiring, and spark source hidden in the heel (below where metal detectors in use at the time could detect), removed an altered Casio digital watch from his wrist to be used as a timer, unpacked the remaining materials from his dopp kit, and assembled his bomb.”