If we take them at their word and believe that very few SERE professors are allowed to use physical violence, and that the interrogators often come out of the SERE program (not the boys doing 4 days stints, according to Robrob, but the "professors" and the ones training the "professors), then maybe we should open a Senate Select Committee or a House Investigation and have them under oath, if there's only very few of them, why not? Further, it would seem, from the language of the documents it wouldn't take much to continue the torture program in secret, because it is taken for granted that all the different components of it, spread across the DoD budget in different programs that individually might seem benign (like the SERE school) will continue.

And to continue on your argument from the college football regulation, when you start to shine a light on some of these nefarious activities, like with gangs and drugs and guns it can push those involved even further and force them to be even more clandestine. Like the CIA isn't already clandestine enough as it is. Not saying that the transparency and regulation aren't good things though, or at least the efforts at them.

In other words, putting a light on these "very few instructors" might have the added benefit of stopping them. This is of course where the right wing gets up in arms. Liberals want to persecute our military! Survival weekend professors face McCarthyism! POW's under fire! And Rush don't need much as it is to stoke his fat ass into a frenzy.

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by tiggerporn on 04/23/2009 04:19:29 PM EST

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