Torturers Don't WANT The Truth!

Why didn't I think of that??? Via Eschaton

A recent Times article pointed out that the methods for torture we used were taken adapted from tolitarian communist techniques valued not for their success in obtaining the truth but in their ability to obtain false confessions...

You see, al-Libi was a fine graduate of our exciting new school of interrogation. On him we used torture techniques designed to encourage the subject to tell the interrogaters what they wanted to hear. And, miracle of miracles, he did indeed tell them what they wanted to hear...

Bush administration needs evidence to support their war. They use torture techniqes designed to extract false confessions to obtain that "evidence," which they then use to sell the war despite knowing full well of the lack of reliability of the information.

They say a good criminal investigator needs to be able to "get inside the head" of the criminals. But understanding where these pro-torture neo-con crazies are coming from is positively scary...

I am becoming increasingly convinced that Dick Cheney is mentally unstable (what kind of medication is he on these days for his heart problems?) and I wouldn't be surprised if the people who eventually go to arrest him find his body lying in a puddle of blood with a suicide note claiming "I don't care what anyone says, I was right, dammit!"