“Interrogations” on The Daily Caller

Attorney General Eric Holder should be preparing his resume. He ought to be joining the exodus of congressional lame ducks who have been shown the door by incensed voters. (more)

Human rights experts have long pressed the administration of former president George W. Bush for details of who bore ultimate responsibility for approving the simulated drownings of CIA detainees, a practice that many international legal experts say was illicit torture. (more)

We stepped out of a military transport plane onto the grounds of what has become an almost mythical place, surrounded by more misinformation, incorrect assumptions, and rumor than fact. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is a place that few people get to visit, which contributes to the lack of knowledge and misunderstanding—perpetuated by the liberal left and many in the mainstream media. (more)

WASHINGTON — Porter J. Goss, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, in 2005 approved of the decision by one of his top aides to destroy dozens of videotapes documenting the brutal interrogation of two detainees, according to an internal C.I.A. document released Thursday. (more)

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Osama bin Laden has threatened that al-Qaeda will kill American captives if the United States executes self-avowed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed or other members of the terrorist network in U.S. custody. (more)

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden threatened in a new audio recording released Thursday to kill any captured Americans if the U.S. executes the accused mastermind of the Sept.11 attacks or any other Al Qaeda suspects. (more)

MI5 would have acted on the intelligence gained by waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the September 11 attacks, even if they had known how it was gained, sources say. (more)

After five weeks of exercising his “right to remain silent,” the Christmas bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has finally begun cooperating, and according to The Washington Post is now “providing FBI interrogators with useful intelligence about his training and contacts.” Administration officials are hawking this development as a vindication of their patient approach to Abdulmutallab’s questioning. The Post even declares that this “[r]esult counters recent criticism of the case’s handling.” (more)

Marc Thiessen, a former chief speechwriter for  George W. Bush and author of the new book Courting Disaster, claimed this week that senior Al Qaeda terrorsit Abu Zubaydah actually thanked interrogators for waterboarding him because it “lifted a moral burden from his shoulders, the burden to resist.” Thiessen says Zubaydah, reportedly the first terrorist to be waterboarded under the Bush administration, “spilled his guts” after interrogators waterboarded him. (more)

From “Courting Disaster:” (more)