It’s a whole new definition for “body count”
At the same hearing, focused on threats to U.S. interests around the globe, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden publicly confirmed for the first time that the agency’s interrogators had used a simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding on a total of three al-Qaeda detainees in 2002 and 2003.
After the hearing, Hayden told reporters that the information obtained from those detainees amounted to a quarter of all the human intelligence the CIA gained about the terrorist organization between 2002 and 2006.
–the Washington Post, via POGGE
In the article at POGGE, the author wondered just they measured this 25% so accurately, and how much came from torture. I don’t; I’m guessing it all came from torture, and when they say “human intelligence” they mean “word count”, and they got this word count by counting the Brazil-style transcript and holding meetings to decide how many words were in each scream. This way they get not just a bogus statistic that they can use (presumably they did the wordcount before they handed the transcript off to the Coward in Chief, otherwise the spooge-stains would have rendered the document unreadable,) but the whole process of “information”-gathering could be used as a gangland-style initiation-by-murder to rope more people into the whole criminal endeavor.
I’m going to need a lot of soap to wash these stains off my soul.
(Yes, yes, I’m aware that the leadership of the Democratic congressional caucus are leaping up and down in the back proudly shouting “we knew about it, but we didn’t tell because we loooooove Dear Leader!” Thank you for your input, but you can sit down and shut the fuck up now.)