Apparently, the government of Iran is waterboarding detainees. From the Huffpo's Jason Linkins comes the sad irony:
[h/t; The Daily Dish] From ABC News' Lara Setrakian, comes this tweet: Tehrani source close to those detained says some have been beaten heavily and waterboarded with hot water #iranelection In my younger years, I would simply expect this news to be greeted with universal outrage, knowing that the techniques being described had long been deemed to be well across the Bridge Too Far. Now that I've lived through the Bush administration, however, I am forced to contemplate the possibility that Iran is merely taking legitimate steps to obtain critical information in their nations' vital national security interests. One mustn't preclude the possibility that many of those being waterboarded are privy to information about "time bombs" that may, at this moment, be "ticking." ...
Thanks, Dick.
Meanwhile, Andrew Sullivan tries for balance (I'll leave it to you to decide if he succeeds.)
More on Ayatollah Khameini's application of The Cheney Method here.
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