Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Tenet questioned on verschaerfte Vernehmung

Youtube copy of 60 Minutes grilling amoral criminal hack -- uh, I mean former CIA Director Tenet on "enhanced interrogation techniques." (title: "Ex-CIA Director Faces Torture Questions") Notice how pissed he gets, he refuses to actually talk about it and instead just issues the blanket "we do not torture formulation." But then a lot of weasel words pop up:
  • "in this program that we are talking about" -- implies there are other programs.
  • "I don't talk about techniques" is another favorite used here -- to avoid revealing that we are in fact doing things that common-sense definitions count as torture.
  • the "context of 9/11" has to come up of course -- which is an excuse, not a denial.
First few minutes of the video possible use in last lecture, or fascist lecture if want to make link there to verschaerfte Vernehmung.

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