TGIW! presents...."Playboy Goes Waterboarding!"

If you read this blog, you're familiar with my weekly feature, "TGIF! presents..." - where I feature a music video (mostly) to help you get your weekend off and runnin'. But it's Wednesday. If I would've played this on Friday, you'd expect it. Gotta switch it up from time to time. That's what interrogation's all about. Surprise.

Anyway, here's a link of a Playboy magazine correspondent undergoing a simulated waterboarding interrogation. We've all heard about it on the news. But do you really know WHAT is consists of? Watch this video.

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Obama shoots his wad; releases CIA documents to the world.

President Obama fully acknowledged that the CIA has to protect the American people and American soil against people who don't play by rules when interrogating their prisoners and who would willingly kill innocents and die for their cause. Then he releases classified CIA documents written by George W. Bush's administration detailing methods of extracting information from al-Qaeda prisoners.

Say one thing. Do another. "I understand that it's hard when you are asked to protect the American people against people who have no scruples and would willingly and gladly kill innocents." Really? Do you REALLY understand, President Obama? I don't think you do.

Leon Panetta, President Obama's CIA chief, and four most recent former heads of the spy agency, asked Obama not release the memos as this might damage national security and demoralize CIA operatives. But Obama knows more about U.S. covert operations than FIVE CIA chiefs so he just ignores them all. Chief of Staff Rahm "I-don't-have-to-pay-property-taxes Emanuel, defended the decision to publicize them, stating that it had "enhanced America's image abroad" and deprived al-Qaeda of "propaganda tools".

Excuse me but do you honestly believe - Rahm - that releasing those documents will deprive al-Qaeda of its propaganda tools? Seriously - what a fucking joke. Talk about naivete. The President already acknowledged that al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups don't play by the same rules as the U.S. They shoot their captives. They behead their captives. Our methods (waterboarding, for one) are effective - we obtain the information we need and the prisoner is still alive. Whoever said anything about international cloak and dagger games being fair?

Just like Speaker of the House Nancy "Pablo" Pelosi compromised the effectiveness with which ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) can deal with illegal aliens in the U.S. by referring to it as "un-American" , by releasing previously classified CIA documents for the world to see in an effort to "enhance America's image" our country was just made weaker than it already is.

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Hey, Hassan! You don't have to tell me twice! Hal istamta'ta bewaqtika?

At least he didn't use waterboarding. That's illegal in the U.S.

BUFFALO, N.Y. - A suburban Buffalo man who founded a cable TV station to promote better understanding of Muslims in the U.S. has been arrested on charges he beheaded his wife. Muzzammil Hassan, 44, was arrested Thursday for investigation of second-degree murder, The Buffalo News reported. Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Her body was found at his business, Bridges TV.

Hassan launched the television station in 2004 amid hopes that it would help portray Muslims in a more positive light. Its slogan was "connecting people through understanding." According to authorities, Aasiya Hassan recently filed for divorce and had a protection order against her husband, the Buffalo News reported.

"Obviously, this is the worst form of domestic violence possible," Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said Friday.

Thanks, Frank. Here I thought simply beating up my old lady woulda cinched for 1st prize.

(I don't really have an old lady. And "Hal istamta'ta bewaqtika" means "Do you like it here?")

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