Replying to a message of JOHN FITZGERALD to BOB ACKLEY:

 JF>>   Again, if waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation methods  
 JF>> didn't work...they wouldn't use them.   Wake up guys. 

 BA>>>   There is *NO* evidence that those techniques work
 BA>>>   at all, let alone reliably. 

 JF>>   Since most if not all of this info is classified to protect intel'  
 JF>> and to protect the identities of CIA personnel, your "NO
evidence"  
 JF>> is only gonna convince Mary Poppins and members of her knitting  
 JF>> circle...you know, the same ones who call our troops 'baby  
 JF>> killers' etc. That is all this is.

 BA>>   The fact that Cheney, et al,  keep claiming that 
 BA>>   they do does not make those claims factual.

 JF>>   The fact that a few hand picked people claim otherwise does not  
 JF>> make it true either.  That is why the issue is debated, and is   why
 JF>> your end falls flat on it's face.

 BA>>   That 'few handpicked people' includes almost the 
 BA>>   entire JAG corps in all four armed services.

 JF>    Army Lawyers worried about lawsuits.   So what?

Army and Navy and Air Force and Marine Corps lawyers.  People
who have the training and experience to *know* what's legal and/or
Constitutional and what isn't.

 JF>   With all the
 JF> partisan attacks on our intel, military, etc, who can blame them.  
 JF> More PR strategy.  Nothing new.  Been going on for decades and
 JF> decades.

In point of fact the JAGs were purposely kept 'out of the loop' on
'enhanced interrogations' because they 'weren't trustworthy' according
to either Addington or Haynes (two of the main drivers behind the
'enhanced interrogation' policy; Yoo, Bybee, Feith and Wolfowitz were
the others).  If the JAGs didn't know about it they couldn't make their
opinions known, could they?

When the JAGs *did* find out about it and finally did manage to get
Rumsfeld to pay attention to them he did order that those 'enhanced
interrogations' stop, at least temporarily.

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