Our Waterboarding Wasn’t Torture Because Feet Were Elevated
In an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace pointed out that the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA’s use of torture had revealed techniques including a “series of near drownings,” sleep deprivation, and unnecessary “rectal feedings.”
“Isn’t that torture by any definition?” Wallace asked.
“No,” Rove insisted. “Let’s get the rectal feedings out. In this report, there are nine references on 14 pages to rectal feedings. And four of those five, it is the result of a hunger strike by the detainee.”
Rove asserted that waterboarding, slapping detainees, and solitary confinement were also “carefully designed.”
“The tests were, do they involved severe pain or suffering or do they involve severe and prolonged mental pain or suffering?” he opined. “And in each instance, these procedures were designed so that they would not pass those barriers.”
“Take, for example, waterboarding,” Rove continued. “In waterboarding — unlike World War II, where the Japanese attempted to drown people by basically pouring water in their mouths — here the feet were elevated so there’s little or not chance of any fluid getting into the lungs. And very careful standards set in place so these would help break the the resistance of the detainee without placing their life in danger.”
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tiredoftea December 14th, 2014 at 22:08
The lies and excuses never end on the Fraud Spews cavalcade of subhuman utterings.
raincheck December 15th, 2014 at 08:07
Lol…. Well said
tiredoftea December 14th, 2014 at 23:08
The lies and excuses never end on the Fraud Spews cavalcade of subhuman utterings.
raincheck December 15th, 2014 at 09:07
Lol…. Well said
ExPFCWintergreen December 14th, 2014 at 22:24
Pontius Pilate was sure torture works, too
ExPFCWintergreen December 14th, 2014 at 23:24
Pontius Pilate was sure torture works, too
Obewon December 14th, 2014 at 22:30
Rove says Illegal Waterboarding wasn’t torture because the untried and uncharged detainees were naked when whipped by Bush / Cheney Dominatrix Lynndie England.
Obewon December 14th, 2014 at 23:30
Rove says Illegal Waterboarding wasn’t torture because the untried and uncharged detainees were naked when whipped by Bush / Cheney Dominatrix Lynndie England.
Jake December 14th, 2014 at 22:43
Now Karl Rove is an expert on terrorism – and here I thought he was simply an expert on long distance medical diagnosis ( his amazing views on Hillary’s health) and electoral predictions -( just ask President Romney ).
Suzanne McFly December 15th, 2014 at 06:58
So many have claimed rove is brilliant, I don’t see it and never have.
raincheck December 15th, 2014 at 08:06
IKR?
burqa December 14th, 2014 at 23:21
Ok Karl, how about you get waterboarded then, with feet elevated, of course. Then your gasping won’t suck water into your lungs, will it?
What caused the hallucinations, Karl?
It was torture and you were part of it, Mr. Rove.
Neither you nor anyone you worked with will be able to escape having “TORTURER” figuratively tattooed in 6-inch letters across your forehead. If you had any brains, you’d lay low on this one because you can claim to have been out of the Cheney-Addington loop.
But nooooo.
Making it worse is those who want to turn the GOP into the Torture Party.
Can’t wait to see Jeb handle that one….
burqa December 15th, 2014 at 00:21
Ok Karl, how about you get waterboarded then, with feet elevated, of course. Then your gasping won’t suck water into your lungs, will it?
What caused the hallucinations, Karl?
It was torture and you were part of it, Mr. Rove.
Neither you nor anyone you worked with will be able to escape having “TORTURER” figuratively tattooed in 6-inch letters across your forehead. If you had any brains, you’d lay low on this one because you can claim to have been out of the Cheney-Addington loop.
But nooooo.
Making it worse is those who want to turn the GOP into the Torture Party.
Can’t wait to see Jeb handle that one….
rg9rts December 15th, 2014 at 00:48
Like this idiot would know…
rg9rts December 15th, 2014 at 01:48
Like this idiot would know…
bpollen December 15th, 2014 at 01:40
I think he is just trying to live up to his name “Turdblossom” by trying to make a flower bloom from the pile of crap that constituted our war on terror under Cheney-Bush-Rove-Rumsfeld…. Let bin Laden get away, but torture people whose reasons for being in prison were unknown.
bpollen December 15th, 2014 at 02:40
I think he is just trying to live up to his name “Turdblossom” by trying to make a flower bloom from the pile of crap that constituted our war on terror under Cheney-Bush-Rove-Rumsfeld…. Let bin Laden get away, but torture people whose reasons for being in prison were unknown.
Carla Akins December 15th, 2014 at 05:52
This man’s entire claim to fame and area of expertise is simply to be wrong. I guess we can apply that here as well. How anyone on earth can defend torture, is beyond me – but speaks volumes about them.
Carla Akins December 15th, 2014 at 06:52
This man’s entire claim to fame and area of expertise is simply to be wrong. I guess we can apply that here as well. How anyone on earth can defend torture, is beyond me – but speaks volumes about them.
MIAtheistGal December 15th, 2014 at 06:46
So, is he saying that were these very same tactics used by one of our enemies on our soldiers, it wouldn’t be torture? Aren’t they really giving a carte Blanche to torture to any foe we face now or in the future to torture our citizens?
Bunya December 15th, 2014 at 13:59
Oh, heaven’s NO! We don’t torture! We “enhance interrogate”.
MIAtheistGal December 15th, 2014 at 14:40
Oh, right. I forgot there was fancy new terminology so we can say we don’t torture.
MIAtheistGal December 15th, 2014 at 07:46
So, is he saying that were these very same tactics used by one of our enemies on our soldiers, it wouldn’t be torture? Aren’t they really giving a carte Blanche to torture to any foe we face now or in the future to torture our citizens?
Bunya December 15th, 2014 at 14:59
Oh, heaven’s NO! We don’t torture! We “enhance interrogate”.
MIAtheistGal December 15th, 2014 at 15:40
Oh, right. I forgot there was fancy new terminology so we can say we don’t torture.
Suzanne McFly December 15th, 2014 at 06:56
If this is the spokesman for their defense of these actions, they are screwed.
Suzanne McFly December 15th, 2014 at 07:56
If this is the spokesman for their defense of these actions, they are screwed.
Suzanne McFly December 15th, 2014 at 07:58
So many have claimed rove is brilliant, I don’t see it and never have.
raincheck December 15th, 2014 at 09:06
IKR?