Parallel Universes

by digby

Everybody should read this post by Kevin Drum, showing the two diametrically opposed versions of who torture victim Abu Zubayda actually was. The fellow who's been all over TV today is saying that Zubaydah was some sort of intellectual mastermind, and that torture broke him saving many lives. Ron Suskind reported that Zubaydah was little more than a gopher who made up fabulous tales to stop the torture --- which led the US authorities on many merry chases tracking down bogus terrorist plots.

We don't know which is true. This ex-CIA agent purports to have been personally involved. But Suskind's record is damned good. He nailed this administration earlier and more often than any other reporter.

One thing we do know is that those tapes would have answered the question.


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