The Curmudgeon

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Monday, March 31, 2014

Insufficient Interrogative Enhancification

A report by US senators has concluded that enhanced interrogation techniques such as semi-drowning and sleep deprivation yielded no significant information in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. This conclusion is "hotly disputed" because the perpetrators of those techniques disagree with it; much as a report denying Allah's approval of suicide bombings might be hotly disputed by the al-Qaida recruiters whose holy calling the War on the Abstract Noun did so much to facilitate. It is as yet unclear how fulsomely the senators have acknowledged the restraining moral influence of MI5, MI6 and the Reverend Blair on the CIA interrogators; the Reverend Blair will no doubt be only too happy to provide his own acknowledgment at a suitable time. Meanwhile, the remaining residents of Guantánamo Bay can live in hope that, given another decade or so, another report may one day cast doubts on the effectiveness of kidnapping and detention without trial.

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