Former GWB aide Marc Thiessen: Khalid Sheik Mohammed neither a mod nor a rocker, but a MOCKER.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Bush aide says 9/11 mastermind mocked interrogators during waterboarding

By CAROL ROSENBERG
McClatchy Newspapers

http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/16/2219903/bush-aide-says-911-mastermind.html

WASHINGTON -- A former speech writer for President George W. Bush said Monday that confessed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed mocked his CIA interrogators during his March 2003 waterboarding sessions by using his fingers to tick off the number of seconds he would be subjected to near drowning.

"He was communicating to his interrogators that he was on to them," Marc Thiessen said during a panel discussion on what role harsh interrogation tactics might have played in developing the intelligence that led to Osama bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

A CIA spokesman declined to comment on the record about the report, and there was no independent verification of Thiessen's account. Mohammed's lawyer also declined to comment.

Thiessen said Monday that Mohammed knew that agents had to relent after 40 seconds, something he may have divined after undergoing the procedure repeatedly.

[Blue_Tires]

1. A speechwriter? SERIOUSLY??

[Sonoman]

2. That was the first thing I thought of, as well.

Makes no sense to me, but, considering the dysfunctional and incompetent * WH nothing would surprise me.

Sonoman

[lunatica]

4. It wasn't illegal, so why not have an audience?

Maybe Bush sent him.

[Wounded Bear]

3. Maybe that's why they dumped the tapes...nt

[riverwalker]

5. dudes book with intro by Cheney

"Courting Disaster
How the CIA Kept America Safe and how Barack Obama is Inviting the Next Attack."
by Marc Thiessen

"Marc Thiessen knows, in ways that few others do, just how effective, heroic, and morally justified were the interrogators who kept this nation safe after 9/11. If you want to know what really happened behind the scenes at the CIA interrogation sites or at Guantanamo Bay, you simply must read this book." —Dick Cheney

(the subtitle should be : "Pornographic torture and snuff for the perverted sadists and other RW'rs who can't get it up any other way")
And I have no doubt, NONE, that Cheney et al watched the videos of the torture.
The freaks.