{"id":7750,"date":"2010-03-12T23:15:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-13T04:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7750"},"modified":"2010-03-12T23:15:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-13T04:15:41","slug":"karl-rove-is-proud-of-waterboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/karl-rove-is-proud-of-waterboarding\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Rove is proud of waterboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/us_and_americas\/article7060329.ece\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The man known for much of his career as \u201cBush\u2019s brain\u201d has caused a storm of protest by saying that he is proud of waterboarding and other \u201cenhanced interrogation techniques\u201d used on prisoners by the US and internationally condemned as torture. Karl Rove said that the Administration \u201cbroke the will of these terrorists and gave us valuable information\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The first public hint of the programme of CIA rendition flights and coercive interrogations led eventually to terrifying first-person accounts of waterboarding, including that of the British columnist Christopher Hitchens. It felt, he wrote, \u201cas if a huge, wet paw had been suddenly and annihilatingly clamped over my face\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anything that causes liberals to froth at the mouth <em>and<\/em> clamps a huge wet paw over Christopher Hitchens\u2019 face can\u2019t be all bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: The man known for much of his career as \u201cBush\u2019s brain\u201d has caused a storm of protest by saying that he is proud of waterboarding and other \u201cenhanced interrogation techniques\u201d used on prisoners by the US and internationally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/karl-rove-is-proud-of-waterboarding\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[2227],"class_list":["post-7750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}