By Ann Wright, t r u t h o u t — Last week, senior al-Qaeda operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed reportedly confessed during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) at the US prison in the US Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. … To the amazement of the audience, [Lindsey] Graham said with a twinkle in his eye that “Americans don’t mind torture; they really don’t.” Then he smiled broadly, almost gleefully, and said that the US had used certain interrogation techniques on “Sheikh Mohammed, one of the ‘high-value’ targets” – techniques that “you really don’t want to know about, but they got really good results.”<\/p>\n
I firmly believe that Graham’s statement acknowledged that US officials have tortured prisoners, and he, as a senator, knew what was done and agrees with the torture because “it got results.” (More)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Ann Wright, t r u t h o u t — Last week, senior al-Qaeda operative Khalid Sheikh Mohammed reportedly confessed during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal (CSRT) at the US prison in the US Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. … To the amazement of the audience, [Lindsey] Graham said with a twinkle…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-evidence"],"yoast_head":"\n