Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 27 2010

In a 2007 intrerview with ABC news, CIA interrogator John Kiriakou claimed that terrorist suspect Abu Zubaydah was broken by a brief application of water torture ? commonly called waterboarding. He then supposedly provided information that prevented ?maybe dozens of attacks.?

Advocates of torture, including Rush Limbaugh and other prominent conservative media figures ? seized on Kiriakou?s statement with a sense of triumphant validation.

This attitude persisted after it was revealed that Zubaydah had been subjected to water torture not once, but 83 times , as well as being beaten, stripped naked and suspended from ceiling hooks, and subjected to prolonged sleep deprivation.

In his new memoir The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA?s War on Terror, Kiriakou now confesses that there is no truth to what he said.

?I wasn?t there when the interrogation took place; instead, I relied on what I?d heard and read inside the agency at the time,? writes the former CIA operative.

Why should we expect the truth from torturers?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.