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HEARING
BEFORE THE
OF THE
FIRST SESSION
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NOVEMBER 8, 2007
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C O N T E N T S
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NOVEMBER 8, 2007
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OPENING STATEMENTS
WITNESSES
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House of Representatives,
Subcommittee on the Constitution,
Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties,
Committee on the Judiciary,
Washington, DC.
ATTACHMENT A
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Yes. The waterboard must go back to the realm of SERE training our
operators, soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines. We must now double
our efforts to prepare for its inevitable and uncontrolled use of by
our future enemies.
Until recently, only a few countries considered it effective. Now
American use of the waterboard as an interrogation tool has assuredly
guaranteed that our service members and agents who are captured or
detained by future enemies will be subject to it as part of the most
routine interrogations. Forget threats, poor food, the occasional face
slap and sexual assaults. This was not a dignified `taking off the
gloves'; this was descending to the level of our opposition in an
equally brutish and ugly way. Waterboarding will be one our future
enemy's go-to techniques because we took the gloves off to brutal
interrogation. Now our enemies will take the gloves off and thank us
for it.
There may never again be a chance that Americans will benefit from
the shield of outrage and public opinion when our future enemy uses of
torture. Brutal interrogation, flash murder and extreme humiliation of
American citizens, agents and members of the armed forces may now be
guaranteed because we have mindlessly, but happily, broken the seal on
the Pandora's box of indignity, cruelty and hatred in the name of
protecting America. To defeat Bin Laden many in this administration
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have openly embraced the methods of by Hitler, Pinochet, Pol Pot,
Galtieri and Saddam Hussein.
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