{"id":4274,"date":"2008-04-09T19:45:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T02:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=4274"},"modified":"2008-04-09T19:58:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T02:58:31","slug":"white-house-choreographed-torture-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/white-house-choreographed-torture-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Choreographed Torture Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ABC has a <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/print?id=4583256\"><strong>bombshell tonight<\/strong><\/a> about how Cheney and other top Bush administration officials would sit around in the White House and decide exactly how Muslim detainees would be tortured.  <\/p>\n<p>ABC noted: &#8220;The high-level discussions about these &#8216;enhanced interrogation techniques&#8217; were so detailed, these sources said, some of the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed &#8212; down to the number of times CIA agents could use a specific tactic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sitting around a table and deciding how many times each Muslim detainee can be whacked up side the head sounds like the ultimate NeoCon masturbatory fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>Even prize-Constitution stomper John Ashcroft had qualms about the meetings, reportedly warning, &#8220;History will not judge this kindly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What does it take to get someone indicted for war crimes in this country any more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC has a bombshell tonight about how Cheney and other top Bush administration officials would sit around in the White House and decide exactly how Muslim detainees would be tortured. ABC noted: &#8220;The high-level discussions about these &#8216;enhanced interrogation techniques&#8217; were so detailed, these sources said, some of the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4274"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}