Every so often The Associated Press goes out of its way to deliver a fresh reminder that it’s not a reliable or reputable source of news by publishing a particularly awful article that gets everything backwards.
Such is the case with Devlin Barrett’s latest “report” for the wire service, which subjectively asserts that trying detainees accused of plotting the September 11tth attacks in U.S. civilian court is “politically and legally risky” but then stupidly tries to find an objective middle ground between people who have correctly called a spade a spade and people who pretend otherwise:
U.S. civilian courts prohibit evidence obtained through coercion, and a number of detainees were questioned using harsh methods some call torture.
Some call torture!?
Torture IS torture, Devlin. There is no discussion! Ask anyone who has been waterboarded if they think simulating a feeling of drowning is NOT torture.
While we’re on the subject, some people say reading Associated Press articles is torture. We’re not inclined to go that far, but still… some people say it is.