I’d like to imagine the way that line was delivered when a CIA interrogator responded to Khalid Shaihk Mohammed’s innocuous, post 9/11, post-Afghanistan invasion offered a Rodney King-esque “can’t we all just get along?”

I’m not going to quote this piece at length from, dare I say this - The International Herald Tribune, but the whole thing is worth a read.

One of the more detail-oriented descriptions of the interrogation techniques and the story of a narcotics investigator with no terrorism background achieving success in the much-maligned US efforts to gather information from the diseased abscesses of Islam that murder innocents with joy at any opportunity.

Mohammed’s initial reaction to being captured was one of licking his chops at the thought of getting the same regular, old criminal justice treatment his nephew Ramzi Yousef, one of the 1993 WTC Bombers:

Mohammed met his captors at first with cocky defiance, telling one veteran CIA officer, a former Pakistan station chief, that he would talk only when he got to New York and was assigned a lawyer — the experience of his nephew and partner in terrorism, Ramzi Yousef, after Yousef’s arrest in 1995.

But the rules had changed…

Thankfully, the rules had changed. No Lynne Stewart for you, jerk.

Like I said, read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Having said that, GP correctly notes that the New York Times, or IHT if we’re reading overseas periodicals, certainly has different standards when it comes to putting intelligence officers at risk for retribution by naming the officer in this instance.

Valerie Plame was a desk jockey but Martinez was actually out in the field interrogating the planners of 9/11. I hope the Congressional investigations will start shortly into these traitors who claim to have agonized over this decision to intentionally putting this man at risk.

I guess he wasn’t white or blonde enough for the Times/IHT to consider important enough in protecting the security of this country.

At first read, I did not read the Editor’s note and assumed that Agency officials did not consider him in danger. Upon further review:

a lawyer representing Mr. Martinez asked that he not be named in this article, saying that the former interrogator believed that the use of his name would invade his privacy and might jeopardize his safety.

Regardless of whether he was undercover or not, the Times and IHT just printed his name in hope of putting him at risk. You can’t pound “Plame, Plame, Plame” for two years or hyping Scott McClellan’s nonsense and expect people to not question your cavalier role in jeopardizing the agent who broke down one of the 9/11 terrorist masterminds after harping about Valerie Plame who was relegated to desk duty and sending out donations to political candidates from her “undercover” front.

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