QOTD: a former spook
by digby
From Dan Froomkin at The Intercept:
Alvin Bernard “Buzzy” Krongard, who was the CIA’s executive director from 2001 to 2004 — the number-three position at the agency — was asked on a BBC news program if he thought waterboarding and putting a detainee in painful stress positions amounted to torture:
“Well, let’s put it this way, it is meant to make him as uncomfortable as possible. So I assume for, without getting into semantics, that’s torture. I’m comfortable with saying that. We were told by legal authorities that we could torture people.”
How refreshingly honest.
And, by the way, always keep in mind that many of the torturers were sickened and told the brass in DC that it wasn’t working but the big boys met every day at 5 o’clock to read gory reports of torture and pain and apparently enjoyed it so much they told them not to stop.
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