Olbermann wants torture inquiry of Bush officials « NewsReal Blog

Olbermann wants torture inquiry of Bush officials « NewsReal Blog: "MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann yesterday spoke out in favor of the Justice Department’s plan to investigate “incidents of torture committed by U.S. officials and contractors during the Bush administration.” One man, Olbermann reported indignantly, had been “stripped naked except for a hood on his head” before being threatened by CIA agents who held a pistol and a power drill next to his head, and who threatened to rape and kill his family members. Another man, said Olbermann, was told that if he did not cooperate, his children would be killed; he was also waterboarded.

Oh, incidentally, the aforementioned hooded man was Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, mastermind of the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 American servicemen in October 2000.

And just for the record, the second man was Khalid Shaikh Mohammed (KSM), former military head of Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network. Perhaps you remember him: He helped mastermind the foiled Operation Bojinka, which aimed to simultaneously blow up 12 commercial airliners in mid-flight between Asia and the United States; the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed more than 200 people; the failed bombing of American Airlines Flight 63 in December 2001; and the quadruple hijackings of September 11, 2001 – to name just a few"