re: #42 Killgore Trout

I got the link from his wiki entry…

He wasn’t talking to investigators voluntarily that why they “enhanced” his interrogation experience. I assume he gave up most of that info after they broke him.

And most of that can be assumed to be just as false.

Here is some info on the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah

Top officials in the U.S. government refused to believe Abu Zubaydah was not the operative they believed him to be.[13][72] The May 30, 2005 Department of Justice memo noted that while on-scene interrogators believed Abu Zubaydah no longer had any information to disclose, CIA Headquarters ordered additional waterboarding.[72] The interrogators believed the waterboarding was “unnecessary.”[72] Orders for the additional waterboarding likely came from Dick Cheney directly.[181] Additionally, the Bush White House and CIA officials couldn’t believe Abu Zubaydah didn’t have additional information.[13] One official stated the pressure from upper levels of government was “tremendous,” and that “[t]hey couldn’t stand the idea that there wasn’t anything new.”[13] The official said, “[t]hey’d say, ‘You aren’t working hard enough.’ There was both a disbelief in what he was saying and also a desire for retribution - a feeling that ‘He’s going to talk, and if he doesn’t talk, we’ll do whatever.’”[13]

Some people contest Abu Zubaydah’s mental health. Ron Suskind noted in his book, The One Percent Doctrine, that Zubaydah turned out to be mentally ill, keeping a diary “in the voice of three people: Hani 1, Hani 2, and Hani 3” — a boy, a young man and a middle-aged alter ego.[16] Abu Zubaydah’s diaries spanned ten years and recorded in numbing detail “what he ate, or wore, or trifling things [people] said.”[15] Dan Coleman, then the FBI’s top al-Qaeda analyst, told a senior bureau official, “This guy is insane, certifiable, split personality.”[16] According to Suskind, this judgment was “echoed at the top of CIA and was briefed to the President and Vice President.”[16] Dan Coleman, the FBI’s senior expert on al Qaeda, echoed many of Suskind’s sentiments in an interview with the Washington Post. Coleman stated Zubaydah was a “safehouse keeper” with mental problems, who “claimed to know more about al-Qaeda and its inner workings than he really did.”[15] Abu Zubaydah’s co-counsel, Joseph Margulies, wrote in an OpEd in the LA Times that:

Partly as a result of injuries he suffered while he was fighting the communists in Afghanistan, partly as a result of how those injuries were exacerbated by the CIA and partly as a result of his extended isolation, Abu Zubaydah’s mental grasp is slipping away. Today, he suffers blinding headaches and has permanent brain damage. He has an excruciating sensitivity to sounds, hearing what others do not. The slightest noise drives him nearly insane. In the last two years alone, he has experienced about 200 seizures. Already, he cannot picture his mother’s face or recall his father’s name. Gradually, his past, like his future, eludes him.[235]

Waterboarding mentally ill moooslims saves lives.

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