Al-Qaeda trains its terrorists to resist known interrogation tactics, so the United States has a national-security interest in keeping such tactics secret. Congressional Democrats, however, tried to make the country?s techniques quite literally an open book: They wanted to restrict interrogators to the practices approved in the Army Field Manual, a publicly available document. Fortunately, President Bush vetoed the bill. Democrats are pretending that he acted out of enthusiasm for waterboarding. But that is not the issue: While waterboarding is rough stuff, the United States has not used it in five years, and even then employed the technique on a grand total of three terrorists. Their colleagues should not know what to expect from our interrogators, even if we know all too well what to expect from the Democrats.
================================================
Oh please. Like there are actually unknown interrogation tactics.
Think about it. There is not such thing as an unknown interrogation tactic, anymore than there is a secret recipe for tomato soup.
All Juniorbush has to do is make waterboarding illegal. This is eiother because he wants to have suspects waterboarded, or think they are going to be waterboarded. But there is no real issue to tortuyre, they just send the suspects to the Egyptians, Turkmen or some other satrapy to have them tortured.
The basic truth is that Juniorbush and Cheney are just stubborn pricks. Cruel, incompetent, stubborn pricks.
