Is Using A Minotaur To Gore Detainees A Form Of Torture?
In The Know panelists discuss the closing of the controversial detainee labyrinth and debate whether the Minotaur's sternum-stomping-by-hooves interrogation technique yielded valuable intelligence.
I'm Julianna McKannis, filling in for
Clifford Banes who is vacuuming.
This week the military began closing
the controversial labyrinth
which for seven years
housed the brutal minotaur
they used to interrogate terror suspects
but Congress and the American people
are still demanding to know
who will be held accountable
for authorizing the minotaur maze.
-Well I can tell you that right now,
no one should be held accountable because
the use of the minotaur was necessary.
Yeah so forcing prisoners to
wander in an infinite labyrinth,
living in fear of being torn limb from limb
by the minotaur may seem harsh
to some people now, but you have
to remember what it was like after 9/11.
That flesh-eating half man, half bull
kept us safe from the terrorists.
No look, recently released classified memos
show that many of the suspects
held at this facility suffered serious
psychological damage... -Oh come on!
Please Jason! -...Because of the
labyrinth's constantly shifting walls
not to mention the dozens who had their
spines added to the minotaur's spine pile.
Oh please! -Look I worked for the Bush
administration and this is the fault
of the media. They have blown this
whole minotaur issue out of proportion.
For one thing the minotaur
is only 11 feet tall,
not 20 like is commonly reported.
-It doesn't matter whether the minotaur
used one razor sharp axe or seven.
-Jason look, the terrorists would do
a lot worse to you. They'd drag you up
beside of a mountain and have your bowels
pecked out by griffins. -We could
use griffins but we don't use griffins
and I think that's what separates us
from them. -That's exactly right.
The Obama administration has released some
photos of these etchings which are found
carved on the labyrinth walls.
-I mean I don't see what the debate
is here, these etchings clearly prove that
the interrogations constituted torture.
These don't prove anything. -No,
that's right, and even if the minotaur
did act inappropriately,
and I'm not saying it did,
the United States cannot be held
responsible for its actions
because it is a beastly minotaur
and no chains can bind it.
And you know frankly I think
it's sad that now the words
never-ending labyrinth of pain
are synonymous with the errors
made by one loose cannon minotaur
who yeah admittedly went too far.
Oh give me a break! I mean
the fact is that this maze
violates the Geneva Convention
which prohibits the use
of any bovine monster who wields an axe
and has teeth longer than nine inches.
Oh please! -Come on!
-Every terrorist out there
is now going to be trained on how
to resist talking to a minotaur
while he disembowels him
with his razor-sharp horns.
Yeah now you want to tie the hands and
hooves of our interrogators even further?
Come on, there's got to be
a federal investigation here.
Well the minotaur himself has some
interesting suggestions on the topic
in his new tell-all audio book.
-I believe we have a clip
from the controversial section
where the minotaur talks about
Dick Cheney's personal involvement
in building the maze.
It's completely unsubstantiated.
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