CIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding
A study in “enhanced reporting techniques.”
BY JEFF STEIN | JANUARY 26, 2010Well, it’s official now: John Kiriakou, the former CIA operative who affirmed claims that waterboarding quickly unloosed the tongues of hard-core terrorists, says he didn’t know what he was talking about….
Of course, the media that hyped the original story will run a retraction in five, four, three…
Meanwhile:
Remarks by the President in State of the Union Address January 27, 2010
…We’ve prohibited torture…
What about prosecuting it?
Previously: