Umm, Actually, Yes It Would

clipped from www.powerlineblog.com The new transcripts provide some limited new insight into the interaction between the CIA and its prisoners. [Khalid Sheik] Mohammed. . .appears to have invoked the U.S. Constitution to protest his treatment. He described the response he received: "You are not American, and you are not on American soil. So you cannot ask about the Constitution." Mohammed also said he lied in response to questions about bin Laden's location. "Where is he? I don't know," Mohammed said. "Then he torture me. Then I said yes, he is in this area." The Post's claim that this transcript sheds "insight into the interaction between the CIA and its prisions" assumes that the testimony of the bloodthirsty terrorist is truthful. If his testimony is false, it sheds no insight, "limited" or otherwise; it is mere disinformation. The Post, I trust, would not assume the veracity of an ordinary criminal's testimony about his guilt or innocence or about his interaction with the police.