Another thread. Thanks for getting this one started.

He said quite clearly that US military leadership learned their lesson about participating in torture, and the blowback it creates, especially on them. He hammered Trump for his comments to Matt Lauer this morning.

He also talked about the guy the Paris police shot and arrested. Said that man appeared to have had a change of heart and disabled and threw away his suicide vest in the big attack. This is someone they want to get as much information as possible from, and torture will just cause him to provide only disinformation.

to these politicians that former CIA director Gates called idiots on foreign policy.

Kick & Rec. More people need to see your OP.

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experienced and eminently qualified.

Time the idiot pols started listening to the experts.

But I think you meant "eminently"

Typing too fast--and spell-check doesn't catch misusage.

congress critters that might starve if they did not get the MIC funding.

Ask all the private contractors that worked in Iraq if "losing" was a bad thing??

intelligence in the next administration, it will be a monumental fuck-up.

He gives the military way too much credit. They had no problem getting service men to go along with torture before, why does he think they would now.

There will always be enough weasels to carry out despicable actions.

Torture was illegal under the Bush administration, but that had little effect on waterboarding, Abu Graib, etc.

was a wake-up call that led to some major shakeups in the command structure.

Obviously, there is always the danger of some nutcase going off the reservation.

But, the general uproar after Trump's first call for water-boarding during the Repub debate is a positive sign.