Still Preparing You for the Report

I'd wager one of the main reasons the Senate report is being held up is to allow all the pre-release leaks to numb you. Yeah, yeah. We've heard it already.

The description of the torture meted out to at least two leading al-Qaeda suspects, including the alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, far exceeds the conventional understanding of waterboarding, or “simulated drowning” so far admitted by the CIA.

“They weren’t just pouring water over their heads or over a cloth,” said the source who has first-hand knowledge of the period. “They were holding them under water until the point of death, with a doctor present to make sure they did not go too far. This was real torture.”

  UK Telegraph

What? As opposed to waterboarding or simulated drowning? I guess now we have to move the bar for what constitutes torture again.

Dianne Feinstein, the Democrat chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee that authored the report has promised that it will expose “brutality that stands in stark contrast to our values as a nation”.

Apparently the brutality we have already seen does not.

A second source who is familiar with the Senate report told The Telegraph that it contained several unflinching accounts of some CIA interrogations which – the source predicted – would “deeply shock” the general public.

Oh, I doubt it. I think you’re overestimating the humanity of the general public.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.