The question is, would you rather see khalid sheikh mohammad threatened or American citizens killed?

or my question:

What would you do if you found out you family was killed in a second terrorist attack that could have been stopped by simply telling KSM we were going to kill him and his family?

As for your snark:

trizzlor: I know you’re eager to post some talking points INRE Geneva, but less bolding and more reading would do you some good.

Guess Aye proved you’re the one with the talking points and needs to spend a little more time reading.

*Thanks Aye!*

Here’s where your argument falls apart:

(3) “United States” means the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the commonwealths, territories, and possessions of the United States.

The law you quoted doesn’t apply overseas.

It’s not an investigation into criminal conduct that needs to take place, it’s a united front against the a$$ clowns that want to destroy us that needs to take place. We should get together and say these people do not fall under any conventions that currently exist and we will therefore put a new convention in place that says once they are captured, we’ll use any means necessary to eradicate them from the planet.

Members of other nation’s uniformed military fall under the Geneva Convention. Nothing there has changed. KSM and OBL do not fall under that category or any other category that you can cite.

Tom, I promise, because of your well-informed comments, I will not vote for President Bush again. Problem solved.

Were these morons able to get information via torture? Sure they did. Most of that info was false. You see, under those circumstances, the person being tortured will say just about anything. It is quite interesting: no one in this administration (Excuse me, I meant to say, “THAT administration) was smart enough to figure this out.

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Tom Degan
Goshen, NY

(C) the threat of imminent death; or
(D) the threat that another person will imminently be subjected to death, severe physical pain or suffering

From the report:

The report also tells how a C.I.A. interrogator threatened Mr. Nashiri, by saying that if he didn’t cooperate with his captors, “we could get your mother in here” and “we can bring your family in here.”

According to the report, the interrogator wanted Mr. Nashiri to infer for “psychological” reasons that his female relatives might be sexually abused.

In a separate incident, one C.I.A. interrogator reports that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the chief organizer of the Sept. 11 attacks, was told that if there was another attack on American soil that C.I.A. would “kill your children.”

I see you’re responding to this purely through a political prism, but is there any question that this should be investigated?