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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
you guys had been in charge for 8 years. the world had gotten fucked. after 9/11 there was an unworkable number of suspects and we had to get through them quickly.
you have no tie to reality, but that isn't surprising. what gets me is on FB the one person who argues with you has arrived at the exact same conclusion- you copy arguments form somewhere and dig your heels in, and the guys you don't like are always wrong and the guys you do like are always right-
this is bizarre. A guy was found with that equipment where he was found (Notbob, I never post w/o having read the underlying stuff he was tied to the equipment, I realize incorrectly). We had too many people to examine to "do good police work". Clinton's negligence is too blame, if you want to blame anything for people who were "mistreated." But I know you can't admit that- "he was doing everything he could!"
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Apparently you are confusing your own "24"-related fantasies with what actually happened. Here's the key:
- According to Higazi, the investigators coerced him into confessing to a role in 9/11. Higazi first adamantly denied any involvement with 9/11 and could not believe what was happening to him. Then, he says, the investigator said his family would go through hell in Egypt, where they torture people like Saddam Hussein. Higazy then realized he had a choice: he could continue denying the radio was his and his family suffers ungodly torture in Egypt or he confesses and his family is spared. ...
So Higazy "confesses" and he's processed by the criminal justice system. His future is quite bleak. Meanwhile, an airline pilot later shows up at the hotel and asks for his radio back. This is like something out of the movies. The radio belonged to the pilot, not Higazy, and Higazy was free to go, the victim of horrible timing. Higazi was innocent!
Threatened in this way, Higazy "confessed" to
something he hadn't done.
What's bizarre is that you really aren't interested in whether the FBI got got information by mistreating him. It didn't. They did bad police work instead of good police work, and
as a result they got bad information. Americans were
less well protected as a result. This completely escapes you, though, because what you care about is whether the FBI was acting tough.
