{"id":3308,"date":"2010-01-21T12:06:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T17:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2010-01-21T12:06:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T17:06:01","slug":"water-boarding-vs-water-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3308\/water-boarding-vs-water-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Boarding vs. Water Torture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not often that a member of the MSM like CNN\u2019s Christiane Amanpour gets told on her own show that she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanevents.com\/article.php?id=35280\" target=\"_blank\">lied to her viewers<\/a>.\u00a0 During an appearance by former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen, Amanpour was confronted with remarks she made comparing water torture techniques used by the Khmer Rouge to the CIA\u2019s use of water boarding.\u00a0 Thiessen \u2013 like the Bush Administration, CIA, and legal scholars like John Yoo \u2013 distinguished the two on the following criteria.<\/p>\n<p>First, of all the people submitted to water torture (submerged into a bucket of water while handcuffed to the sides) in S-21 by the Khmer Rouge, only seven people survived, while 14,000 died.\u00a0 No one died as a result of CIA water boarding (simulated drowning).\u00a0 Second, the point of water torture is to eventually kill the victim.\u00a0 By contrast, the point of water boarding is to create a psychological state so panic-ridden that people will think they are about to die.\u00a0 But at no time are subjects actually at risk of death.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s a comfortable experience.\u00a0 It does, however, mean that equating tactics designed to kill with those intended to break a person&#8217;s will is a dangerously misleading formula.<\/p>\n<p>Along with <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/3150\/who-are-yoo\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Yoo\u2019s gentle smackdown of Jon Stewart<\/a> on <em>The Daily Show<\/em>, the Thiessen interview is another indication that the MSM can\u2019t be bothered to get informed about the distinctions that save lives and reputations.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Human Events<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not often that a member of the MSM like CNN\u2019s Christiane Amanpour gets told on her own show that she lied to her viewers.\u00a0 During an appearance by former George W. Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen, Amanpour was confronted with remarks she made comparing water torture techniques used by the Khmer Rouge to the CIA\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[762,730,728,681,763],"class_list":["post-3308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-christiane-amanpour","tag-john-yoo","tag-jon-stewart","tag-marc-thiessen","tag-water-boarding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3311,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3308\/revisions\/3311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}