O’Reilly’s Torturers Bozo Parade
By Larry Johnson on May 1, 2008 at 9:21 PM in Current Affairs
Bill O’Reilly also challenged Hillary Clinton on the issue of torture. Hillary correctly noted that real experts with real experience in conducting interrogations recognize that torture is counterproductive and ineffective. “Not so” exclaimed Bill O’Reilly. He’s talked to two experts himself–George Tenet and Michael Scheuer.
Unfortunately, I had chosen that moment to take a sip of coffee. I’ve spent the last hour cleaning said coffee off of my screen because I spewed when I heard O’Reilly front those two clowns as “experts.” George Tenet is an expert at ass kissing and torture voyeurism. He never got his hands dirty but sure enjoyed talking tough.
And Michael Scheuer? He is a buffoon of the first order. This is a guy who was encouraged to move on to the Counter Terrorism Center (CTC) because he was an underperforming as a European analyst. This was during the time that CTC was a dumping ground for bad analysts. Needless to say Scheuer lived down to these expectations. You can check out a couple of links here pertaining to Scheuer and torture that will be worth your time. Scheuer knows nothing about this and was never involved in an interrogation.
Senator Clinton nailed both O’Reilly and the topic when she noted that John McCain had more first hand experience with this matter than anyone in the studio, and he certainly thinks torture is a bad thing. Score another for Hillary.
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