From President Bush’s speech tonight [emphasis added]:
On September the 11th, we resolved that we would go on the offense against our enemies, and we would not distinguish between the terrorists and those who harbor or support them. So we helped drive the Taliban from power in Afghanistan. We put al Qaeda on the run, and killed or captured most of those who planned the 9/11 attacks – including the man believed to be the mastermind, Khalid Sheik Mohammed. He and other suspected terrorists have been questioned by the Central Intelligence Agency, and they’ve provided valuable information that has helped stop attacks in America and across the world.
Believed by whom? I thought he was the mastermind. It was my understanding that we waterboarded this man because he was the mastermind. I thought you told me that we gained valuable intelligence from torturing applying an “alternative set of procedures” on this man. And after that, in your carefully vetted and crafted 9/11 speech, you can only assure me that he is “the man believed to be the mastermind”?
That’s pathetic.
