Issues Under Fire: The Few The Invisible The Interrogators

Issues Under Fire: The Few The Invisible The Interrogators (Enhanced Interrogation is Dirty Work)

While former Vice President Dick Chaney proudly admits to authorizing "enhanced interrogation techniques" and would do so again if given the opportunity, perhaps its because he never had to get his hands dirty.

It must be cool to sit around on your fat ass ordering underlings to do whatever it takes to make someone talk. No matter how ugly things get, or how far one has to go, the dirty workers have been instructed, advised and assured no negative consequences would ever come their way.

These dirty workers are saving lives and keeping Americans safe at home and abroad. At least that's what the dirty workers are told. The dirty worker must be convinced that what they are doing is not only right, but honorable and even heroic.

How else do you get somebody to kidnap, isolate and strap-down a person they've never seen before, had any dealings with or know the history of and beat the living shit out of them on the possibility they might know something of value. The dirty worker has to be made to feel comfortable with the idea of causing extreme pain and discomfort to a person, who after all is said and done, may have done nothing and known even less.

How the dirty worker processes the dirty deeds perpetrated against to those deemed to be innocent, of no value, uninvolved or just a mistake must be understood. After physically crippling and or physiologically damaging someone permanently, only to realize it was the wrong guy, one would have to be a classic sociopath not to carry at least a modicum of guilt. Simply because the Vice President was able to fabricate a "legal" justification for the dirty worker's actions, it might not be enough to stave off a lifetime of lingering nightmares. 

Since those who gave the orders to use "Enhanced Interrogation" methods never actually look into the blood soaked, fear stricken faces of the unlucky captive, they can remain far removed from the raw unrestricted violence perpetrated against a defenseless human being. They never see what someone looks like when they've shit their pants or piss the floor after a severe slap-down. They never hear the screams of sheer torment.

By anyone's measure, interrogating a human being is dirty work. It's the type of work you don't tell friends or family about.. It's the type of work you keep to yourself. It's the type of work that could keep you awake at night. It's the type of work you report results, but never the methods, so those who green lighted the methods can sleep comfortably at night.

Those who do the dirty work in service to the United States, must have minds of steel, not to let what they do and what they've done define who and what they are now. Is this why we call them heros? Is calling them heros enough? Is calling them heros too much? And while we're asking, who are these so-called heroes anyway?

In order to answer these critical question, the public needs full and unfiltered access to the CIA's landmark torture report. Otherwise, how the hell will Americans ever really know what kind of country they live in? I thing its time we all know the truth, don't you?

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