ABC News: Declassified Memos Contradict 2007 ABC News Interview with John Kiriakou

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http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=7474412

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Declassified Memos Contradict 2007 ABC News Interview with John Kiriakou

The memos also revealed that waterboarding was used "with far greater frequency that initially indicated," according to an excerpt from a report by the CIA Inspector General. Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded at least 83 times and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 183 times, according to the memos.

The new figures sharply contradict an interview with former CIA intelligence officer John Kiriakou who told ABC News in December, 2007 that Zubaydah had only been waterboarded once and talked freely afterwards.

Kiriakou, who led the capture of Zubaydah and was the first from inside the CIA to publicly confirm the use of waterboarding, now says he, too, was unaware of the many times Zubaydah was waterboarded.

Kiriakou told ABC News, "When I spoke to ABC News in December 2007 I was aware of Abu Zubaydah being waterboarded on one occasion. It was after this one occasion that he revealed information related to a planned terrorist attack. As I said in the original interview, my information was second-hand. I never participated in the use of enhanced techniques on Abu Zubaydah or on any other prisoner, nor did I witness the use of such techniques."

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1. I Know Nothink!

[barbtries]

2. wouldn't it be a kick

to hear one person say, i did it. especially one person who knew doing it and knows now that it was not only illegal but morally and ethically the wrong thing to do?

i guess i'm looking for some remorse instead of this ass covering bullshit. i'm up to my eyeballs in bullshit.

[rateyes]

3. Then, you'd better close your eyes.

:evilgrin:

[barbtries]

6. you got that right.

but i feel as if i abdicated my responsibility during the years between the first gulf war and gwbush's dastardly reign of power. i knew at the end of the war that they were keeping saddam around for the next time they felt like throwing a war. so disgusted i just stopped paying attention. i must stay engaged from here on out. but you're right we have barely begun to hear the bullshit. sigh.

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4. trials

[librechik]

5. oh, blame it on Kiriakou instead of Brian Ross

Reporters are supposed to vet their propagan--er--I mean news reports better than that.