The CIA should be required to stick with the same rules of civil discourse as the Koz children.

It really leaves one to wonder where liberals stand on human rights when they go crazy over non-issues in U.S. interrogation but remain silent as rogue governments torture, rape, and kill – as long as those people are non-Western and fighting for a liberal interest group (ex. Palestinians).

I’m actually surprised that the NYT has come down hard on Iran – during Bush their articles went along the lines of “Iran is not so bad, not like the Nazi comparisons, and due to a mistranslation Mr. A may not have technically said he wants Israel wiped off the map.” Blah blah. Now they’re a lot harder on Iran but I suppose Barry the golden boy is in office now and libs have the opportunity to pretend to be tough….

Report: CIA Conducted Mock Executions of Detainees

WASHINGTON — The CIA’s internal investigator found that agency interrogators conducted mock executions of terror suspects and in one case threatened a detainee suspected in the USS Cole bombing with a gun and power drill, congressional officials said late Friday.

The disclosures are contained in a 2004 report by the CIA’s inspector general, which has been kept secret and is to be released next week, two officials told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the report has not yet been cleared for release.

The report’s findings were first reported by Newsweek on its Web site Friday night.

In one case, interrogators brought a gun and power drill into a session with suspected Cole bomber Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, the report says. The homicide bombing of the warship USS Cole killed 17 U.S. sailors in Yemen in 2000.

In another episode, a gunshot was fired in a room next to a detainee to make the prisoner believe another suspect had been killed, according to the report, which a federal judge has ordered to be made public Monday in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.

Nashiri was one of three CIA prisoners subjected to waterboarding, a brutal interrogation technique that simulates drowning that was among 10 techniques approved by the Bush administration’s Justice Department in 2002. President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder have denounced waterboarding as torture.

“The CIA in no way endorsed behavior– no matter how infrequent– that went beyond formal guidance,” said agency spokesman Paul Gimigliano. He declined to comment on the contents of the IG report.

Threatening a prisoner with death violates U.S. anti-torture laws. …

http://www.foxnews.com/politic.....ower-drill

I see no proof here that any prisoner was directly threatened.

But no, even this is unacceptable.

Next up – it will be deemed “torture” to withhold the Sweet & Low from a prisoner’s coffee.

Meanwhile, we fight this:

Taliban Cut Off Fingers of 2 Afghan Voters

KABUL — Taliban militants cut off the ink-stained fingers of two Afghan voters in the militant south during the presidential election, the country’s top election monitoring group said Saturday. …

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,541623,00.html

The AP really has learned from Vietnam; fighting in any way to “win” is strictly forbidden.

Unless it means ramming through legislation that the majority of Americans vehemently oppose, whether gay marriage, open borders, or ObamaCare.