Comments on: Intelligence?

By: SqueakyRat

SqueakyRat — Thu, 27 May 2004 17:13:09 +0000

Oops, sorry for the garbled quote. Here it is again: He went into the shower for interrogation and about an hour later he died on them," said Specialist Kenner, whose account left unclear whether the detainee was examined by a doctor or given any military treatment before he died.

By: SqueakyRat

SqueakyRat — Thu, 27 May 2004 17:09:01 +0000

My favorite passage from the article: “He went into the shower for interrogation and about an hour later he died on them,” said Specialist Kenner, whose account left unclear whether the detainee was He went into the shower for interrogation and about an hour later he died on them,” said Specialist Kenner, whose account left unclear whether the detainee was examined by a doctor or given any military treatment before he died. Such journalistic scruple! I think we can probably infer that he was given adequate military treatment before he died.

By: Kathryn Cramer

Kathryn Cramer — Wed, 26 May 2004 16:01:20 +0000

SOS=SOS Interpreting, Ltd., a translation company which has gone big into the interrogation business. It is also the employer of John Israel, accused of involvement in the abuse in the Taguba report. I have several entries on my blog disccusing SOS: John Israel, & James Bond, SOS, Agent in Charge.

By: pio

pio — Wed, 26 May 2004 03:20:16 +0000

ya know, one would think that when the NYT discovers an unreleased memorandum signed by a fictional british spy, and authenticated by anonymous sources, one would consider the option of the memo being a fraud. Or, given that the NYT has had problems in the past with unsourced articles, it might even be made up. But thats just me.

By: bob mcmanus

bob mcmanus — Tue, 25 May 2004 20:56:09 +0000

Josh Marshall says it might be Feith Bond

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 25 May 2004 15:05:35 +0000

Hm. Are there other memoranda from “Bond James”? Or even “Irvine Washington”?

By: bob mcmanus

bob mcmanus — Tue, 25 May 2004 14:31:53 +0000

The initials, always follow the initials James Baker? Jeb Bush? Jessica Biel?

By: Tom Scudder

Tom Scudder — Tue, 25 May 2004 13:48:10 +0000

Didn’t the Enron boys (and I use that word intentionally) give all sorts of stupid/clever names to their fake dummy corporations?

By: liberal japonicus

liberal japonicus — Tue, 25 May 2004 13:07:45 +0000

You know, if they had signed it ‘Austin Powers’, at least I could say that they had a sense of humor. Signing it James Bond suggests that they actually think there is an M out there to give them all the hi tech gadgets that will extricate them out of any situation, but the only thing they got was a crate of women’s underwear and latex gloves.

By: Kieran Healy

Kieran Healy — Tue, 25 May 2004 04:45:53 +0000

All I wanted to torture the prisoners was sharks with frickin’ laser beams on their heads. Is that too much to ask?