Comments on: Torturous Betting Odds for Justice? http://jimbovard.com/blog/2009/08/24/torturous-betting-odds/ Author James Bovard Mon, 21 May 2012 18:08:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2009/08/24/torturous-betting-odds/#comment-121772 Jim Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:00:35 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=1137#comment-121772 Don't forget to let yourself breathe once every 3 minutes. Don’t forget to let yourself breathe once every 3 minutes.

]]> By: Tom Blanton http://jimbovard.com/blog/2009/08/24/torturous-betting-odds/#comment-121771 Tom Blanton Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:32:12 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=1137#comment-121771 What a coincidence that at the same time that Holder appoints a prosecutor to investigate CIA interrogations, Obama moves the nations interrogation/torture operations to the White House http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8218861.stm there are rumors that Panetta is yelling a lot http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8398902 I'm not sure what to make of it all, but I'm going to start waterboarding myself so I can get used to it. What a coincidence that at the same time that Holder appoints a prosecutor to investigate CIA interrogations, Obama moves the nations interrogation/torture operations to the White House

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8218861.stm

there are rumors that Panetta is yelling a lot

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=8398902

I’m not sure what to make of it all, but I’m going to start waterboarding myself so I can get used to it.

]]> By: Jim http://jimbovard.com/blog/2009/08/24/torturous-betting-odds/#comment-121770 Jim Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:20:22 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=1137#comment-121770 I hope the political masterminds lose control of the narrative of this scandal. A few well-timed leaks... the "discovery" of the torture videotapes (supposedly destroyed)... This scandal could still blow wide open. But the government has gotten away with 98% of its bullshit so far, so... I hope the political masterminds lose control of the narrative of this scandal. A few well-timed leaks… the “discovery” of the torture videotapes (supposedly destroyed)…

This scandal could still blow wide open.

But the government has gotten away with 98% of its bullshit so far, so…

]]> By: Dirk W. Sabin http://jimbovard.com/blog/2009/08/24/torturous-betting-odds/#comment-121767 Dirk W. Sabin Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:56:35 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=1137#comment-121767 The policy-makers who calmly sat down at their desks and did the bidding of the crazed ideologues who dreamed this system up will not likely be touched beyond a couple Aw shucks. They'll likely prosecute some more officers of the line and characterize them as aberrant nutjobs who were too enthusiastic in their sadistic outlets....in contrast to the more sainted cold-calculating and maneuvering Bureaucrats who sanctified the continuing farrago. The policy-makers who calmly sat down at their desks and did the bidding of the crazed ideologues who dreamed this system up will not likely be touched beyond a couple Aw shucks. They’ll likely prosecute some more officers of the line and characterize them as aberrant nutjobs who were too enthusiastic in their sadistic outlets….in contrast to the more sainted cold-calculating and maneuvering Bureaucrats who sanctified the continuing farrago.

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