Waterboarding enemy combatants or dunking girls, it's all the same to him.

Show Us Your Faces

Good Guys in Black Hoods

by DOUGLAS VALENTINE


http://www.counterpunch.org/valentine01052008.html

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Black hood, white hood, it's the same guy.

At the Salem witch trials he dunked uppity white women in the lake till they confessed, ratted out their evil-doer sisters, or drowned.

Waterboarding enemy combatants or dunking girls, it's all the same to him. You know the type of guy it takes to do this stuff. The kind off guy who knows that God is on his side and that he will be forgiven his sins.

An Inquisition kind of guy.

A psychopath.

A CIA interrogator.

This is the strange thing about the God-fearing, righteous, all-American CIA officer. He is doing good, but he's afraid to show his face. And it's not like his job is any more dangerous than, say, a cop or district attorney who investigates the Mafia in Springfield, Massachusetts and actually lives in Springfield, Massachusetts. How come those guys don't get the black hoods? Their enemy lives next door, not locked up in high-tech dungeon in Cuba or Pakistan or on some Navy ship floating off the coast of Madagascar.

There has to be some other reason for the CIA officer's need for secrecy, something more akin to what went on in those old movies, where people were tortured into confessing to crimes they never committed or executed for their political beliefs.

Maybe US Attorney John Durham down on Connecticut will succeed in ripping the mask off the CIA interrogators. Maybe if we get a look at their faces, we'll understand what the CIA is all about.

Maybe we already know.