60 minutes.... the leader of OUR torture program is on. jose rodriguez.

[spanone]

he's one sick fuck.

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After the attacks of 9/11, the CIA sought and was granted unprecedented authority to capture al Qaeda suspects, whisk them off to secret sites and interrogate them with harsh techniques, including waterboarding.

The man who ran the interrogation program was Jose Rodriguez, a CIA spy in Latin America, who rose to become head of the Clandestine Service, the CIA's dark side.

When the agency's secret program was revealed, it was widely criticized but the blunt-spoken, Puerto Rican-born Rodriguez is fighting back. He's written a book, a defense of the interrogations, called "Hard Measures" -- and tonight you will hear his side of the story.

It's the first time someone this close to the program, this accountable has gone public explaining why techniques that had long been condemned by the U.S. as torture were employed.

Jose Rodriguez: For the first time in our history, we had an enemy come into our homeland and kill 3,000 people. I mean, that was a huge deal. People jumping from the towers to their death. The people running away from the cloud of dust, terrified out of their mind. This was a threat. And we had to throw everything at it.



http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57423533/hard-measures-ex-cia-head-defends-post-9-11-tactics/?tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel

[Bonhomme Richard]

1. +1

He would be happy working for any despot in the world.

[muntrv]

2. "For the first time in our history, we had an enemy come into our homeland..."

What about the Civil War? The War of 1812? Pearl Harbor?

[bullwinkle428]

3. In addition to being a sick mofo, he's an incredibly lousy student of history.

[Kablooie]

4. Who the hell refers to the USA as the HOMELAND? Sound positively Teutonic to me.

[bighart]

5. He did bring up one good point:

It is hard to recapture or claim any moral high ground when we have substituted killing by remote control via drones for torture.