Fuckin' Unblievable Interview w/ Kit Bond on Torture- 'like swimming, freestyle, backstroke'

[Orwellian_Ghost]

Senator: Some forms of waterboarding 'like swimming, freestyle, backstroke'


Sen. Kit Bond of Missouri is the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, which has been pressing CIA Director Michael Hayden on the destruction of videotapes that reportedly show terror suspects being waterboarded. Last night, he appeared on PBS' NewsHour with Jim Lehrer to talk about Hayden's recent committee testimony -- and he was asked about the controversial interrogation technique that critics say is torture.

"What the CIA is doing is not torture. It conforms to the Detainee Treatment Act, the Geneva Convention, the Convention against Torture. None of these things that are being used, by any stretch of the imagination, could be described as torture," Bond told interviewer Gwen Ifill.

Following up, Ifill asked Bond directly if waterboarding was torture. Bond responded by equating some forms of the technique to swimming.

"There are different ways of doing it. It's like swimming, freestyle, backstroke. The waterboarding could be used almost to define some of the techniques that our trainees are put through, but that's beside the point. It's not being used," Bond said. However, he went on to say that he "certainly would not favor it in any circumstance."

Still, the "swimming" equation got the attention of the liberal blogosphere. "And the Rack is Just Like Pilates," is the headline on this Credo Action blog post today.

Here's the http://www.usatoday.com/_ads/interstitial/2007/page/interstitial.htm?http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/july-dec07/ciatapes_12-11.html">full transcript of last night's NewsHour interview, featuring Bond and Sen. Jane Harman, D-Calif., who also is an Intelligence Committee member.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/12/senator-some-fo.html

[opihimoimoi]

1. The Man is SICK beyond Redemption..,.He is EVIL as they COME

A Fuckin Pub Rodent....shits and eats at the same time,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[dysfunctional press]

2. the problem is- a lot of americans will agree with him...

after years spent watching jack bauer and the gang on fox(what a week that guy's had, huh?), most of them probably expect the cia to torture people to 'protect america'.

[EFerrari]

3. The American public is being taught to accept human rights abuses

by people like this sick @sshole.

[Hieronymus]

9. Yes, the public, as a whole, has been desensitized.

[zabet]

4. I am ashamed...

that my country tortures.

Bond needs to be given a
demo, on him, to see how
he likes swimming like that.

[tularetom]

5. Was that mofo drunk? I saw an unbelievable clip of that conversation

I've never been privileged to encounter Mr Bond before as he never appears on the only TV show I ever watch (Countdown). He appeared and sounded intoxicated. He certainly is an underwhelming figure of a senator. And from reading the transcript it appears that he is lacking in basic common sense as well as being somewhat charisma deprived. Truthfully I'm shocked that the dems on that committee haven't pounced on his statements and condemned him for the slithering slimy snake he is.

[provis99]

6. if it isn't torture, why don't the police waterboard everyone?

After all, these Republican nuts claim its effective; lets let every cop who has a suspect or reluctant witness use waterboarding on them! No reason, according to Bond's thinking, that we can't use it on small children who shoplift, to extract confessions and other usable information from them, right?

[defendandprotect]

7. Did see part of it --- on KO? --- Bond says this seemingly with full presuasion

that those in the audience believe him !!! Insane; absolutely insane arrogance!!

[IntravenousDemilo]

8. Good god, who voted for this retard? And is there any way we can stop them from doing it again? n/m