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In reply to the discussion: U.S. Tortured and Killed Innocent People for the Specific Purpose of Producing False Propaganda [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)16. The 9/11 Commission report is placed in question.
According to NBC News:
Much of the 9/11 Commission Report was based upon the testimony of people who were tortured
At least four of the people whose interrogation figured in the 9/11 Commission Report have claimed that they told interrogators information as a way to stop being tortured.
The 9/11 Commission itself doubted the accuracy of the torture confessions, and yet kept their doubts to themselves
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/12/gov-tortured-killed-innocent-people-specific-purpose-producing-false-propaganda.html
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U.S. Tortured and Killed Innocent People for the Specific Purpose of Producing False Propaganda [View all]
HomerRamone
Dec 2014
OP
I have always wondered if they were putting in information rather than taking out.
deminks
Dec 2014
#1
The people who did it MUST have been sadistic or else they couldn't have done it nt
HomerRamone
Dec 2014
#3
Cheney had to have Iraq happen, it was his top priority from the minute he came to the WH.
lark
Dec 2014
#20
Halliburton had great liability for asbestos claims for one thing. Thieves in the night.
JDPriestly
Dec 2014
#18
One slight but significant quibble: Don't call the Bush regime "the US".
True Blue Door
Dec 2014
#30