‘What I Tell You Is Three Times True’ & Other Dispatches From The Bush Terror Regime
The more we learn about the Bush torture regime, the more apparent it becomes that there is an interconnectivity between what once seemed random acts and events: False confessions are coerced from tortured detainees using Chinese Communist techniques perfected on U.S. fliers during the Korean War. Ethnic Muslims considered by the Chinese to be enemies of the state are held indefinitely by the U.S. and worked over at the request of Beijing’s interrogators. And so on and so forth.
But first a little . . . er, light comedy:
It is safe to say that the wheels have come all the way off the Bush administration’s legal wagon regarding the justification for indefinite detentions of alleged terrorist suspects when a three-judge appeals court panel with one of the most conservative judges in the land resorts to quoting Lewis Carroll.
In ruling that accusations against Huzaifa Parhat, an ethnic Uighur from a Muslim region of western China held for over six years were based on unverifiable claims, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia compared those claims to the absurd declaration of a character in Carroll’s poem “The Hunting of the Snark:
“I have said it thrice: What I tell you is three times true.”
Please click here to read more at Kiko’s House and here for an index with links to previous torture-related posts.
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Good post, Shaun, although it' doesn't make it any easier to read than the last one or the ones before that.
Watching America has become much like falling down the rabbit hole.
I want to ask: “Where am I?”