(NP) Re: canning worms

[Hepzibah Pyncheon]

They didn't need to establish that presumed link as fact. The brilliantly worded advertising slogan "smoking gun in the form of a mushroom cloud" did the trick quite succinctly. End of discussion. They could have gotten AZ or KSM to sign a piece of paper, a classic propaganda "confession," saying whatever was wanted. They didn't need it really, didn't care especially; simple mechanisms like Bush stop at the minimally sufficient assertion----everything more is a waste of time better spent on self-congratulation. All this we are hearing about our government's interrogative motives in torturing these men looks to me like evasive post-rationalization, or at best the cover story they gave as bureaucratic justification to the hirelings doing the work. What they needed was at most a "reason" they could actually write down in a file, and "because we want them to suffer, and we want it on videotape" didn't seem prudent.

Ever yours,

Hepzie



"It still lacked half-an-hour of sunrise when Miss Hepzibah ... arose from her solitary pillow and began what it would be mockery to term the adornment of her person."

Hawthorne

--- On Wed, 29/4/09, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: canning worms
To: "Hepzibah Pyncheon" <misshepzibah at yahoo.co.uk>
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
Date: Wednesday, 29 April, 2009, 8:59 AM

It is possibly more likely that Cheney was trying to get desired false
information:  Sadam & Iraq were connected to 9-11.

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Hepzibah Pyncheon
<misshepzibah at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> It seems clear that this was never an interogation program, it was simple vengeance.
>



      
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