Ok, so they gave KSM a forced enema. Let me think. Aren’t they really trying not to say he was anally raped?

There is a good reason why the CIA guy Jose Rodriguez ordered the interrogation [1] videotapes destroyed. Even if you thought the Abu Ghraib photos were disturbing, they would not have prepared you to watch the interrogation videotapes.

This is all simply completely immoral and illegal. No amount of discussion about risks, context of the time, etc. will change the simple fact that the treatment of the human beings was criminal, was torture, constituted war crimes.

Any discussion of the benefits of the treatment should be a non-starter. Or if you want to discuss the benefits, do it in a court of law and try to peddle a cost-benefit analysis defense to a jury.

[2] clipped from [3] www.washingtonpost.com Effectiveness Of Harsh Questioning Is Unclear During his first days in detention, senior al-Qaeda operative Khalid Sheik Mohammed was stripped of his clothes, beaten, given a forced enema and shackled with his arms chained above his head, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. It was then, a Red Cross report says, that his American captors told him to prepare for “a hard time.” [4]