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The More You’re Waterboarded, the Less Like Torture It Is

By | 04.27.09 | 12:46 pm

According to Andy McCarthy, senior fellow at the National Review Institute, the idea of calling waterboarding torture is just silly. And the fact that Khalid Sheikh Mohamed was waterboarded 183 times just reinforces how ridiculous calling it “torture” really is.

As he said on a conference call with reporters organized More…

Why Is the Military Commission Releasing 9/11 Prisoners’ Statements?

By | 03.10.09 | 4:17 pm

You’ve probably heard by now that the five alleged plotters of the 9/11 terrorist attacks have not only admitted to the deed once again, but cackled and boasted about it. As soon as the U.S. military commission approved for release their statement, titled “The Islamic Response to the Government’s More…