Peter King Dismisses Torture Report As Just People In 'Awkward Positions'

[babylonsister]

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Peter King Dismisses Torture Report As Just People In 'Awkward Positions'

By Daniel Strauss
PublishedDecember 10, 2014, 3:09 PM EST


Rep. Peter King (R-NY) suggested that the torture referenced in a Senate report released earlier in the week is actually just referring to "people being made to stand in awkward positions."

"I don’t believe these are torture at all. For instance waterboarding, there were medical personnel present during the whole time. It creates tremendous discomfort there’s no doubt about it. It creates tremendous fear, but the fact is there was no lasting damage to these people and we got information from them, which is very helpful," King said in an interview on New York's WCBS. The interview was flagged by Buzzfeed.

King went on to say that "we’re not talking about anyone being burned or stabbed or cut or anything like that. We’re talking about people being made to stand in awkward positions, have water put into their nose and into their mouth. Nobody suffered any lasting injuries from this."

King's comments come after Senate Democrats released a much-anticipated report detailing the CIA's torture program during the Bush administration. The report said, among other things, that the CIA used some brutal interrogation methods such as rectal hydration and rectal feeding.

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Let's shove something up HIS butt and see how f'ing 'awkward' it is. Idiot.

[tanyev]

2. Yeah, and Eric Garner's death is his own fault because he was obese and had health problems.

Glad I don't know Mr. King personally. He sounds like a horrible person.

[Hekate]

3. Really? Like the medieval torture called strappado?

Or the WW II torture -- employed by both the Nazis and the Japanese -- called water torture?

After WW II the Allies hung the torturers.

[Hekate]

4. Jesus. Just in case I ever forget how much I hated everyone in the BushCheney administration.

Damn them all to Hell.

[Solly Mack]

5. Sicko

[Johonny]

6. innocent people were held captive against their will for upwards of 4 years with no trial

they were tortured by methods determined previously by this country as torture. If that doesn't bother you then your an idiot. Peter King is a hate filled idiot who would totally complain from now until the end of time if this happened to him. Hell you can't even put a single police officer on trial these days without this guy boohoing to the high ends of the Earth. You think he could survive what we did to these people? LOL. Only a coward can't face facts when they're in the wrong. Peter King is an America coward. He will do nothing important in his life even though he has the power to do so.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

7. I'll bet this is a meme going around conservative circles

like that idea that if you can speak, your breathing is not restricted at all, which King began spouting at the same time as every other conservaturd on the air. It's like that Limbaugh statement about Abu Ghraib torture being just like fun-loving frat house hazing. Someone should show up on King's front porch with a stack of spicy pizzas, offering to feed them up his fat ass.