Subject to Perception
SAME SHIT, different day:
Torture “is basically subject to perception,” CIA counterterrorism lawyer Jonathan Fredman told a group of military and intelligence officials gathered at the U.S.-run detention camp in Cuba on Oct. 2, 2002, according to minutes of the meeting. “If the detainee dies, you’re doing it wrong.”
[Washington Post: CIA Played Larger Role In Advising Pentagon]
In before—
—No, wait. Paolaccio was in before all.
Whose perception are we talking about here?
If I were to hazard a guess, I’d say, “if the detainee dies, you’re doing it wrong,” pertains to the perception of the folks back home. That is, if the detainee dies, the public might perceive that he had been tortured. Of course, if the detainee lives, the pundits can argue he wasn’t.
[Via: IOZ]
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