James Mitchell: Please FOAD
Having recently finished reading James Risen’s book “Pay Any Price” I was already predisposed to spit on James Mitchell, war criminal and the American equivalent of Josef Mengele, if our paths ever crossed. But after reading his whine I’m inclined to think something more proactive is needed:
Mitchell told Kelly that this ordeal “is like being caught in a bad spy novel.” He said that those who released the CIA report knew the results they wanted beforehand. “They didn’t give us a chance to explain anything,” he said. Now, Mitchell said that interrogators are getting death threats, and he fears for his life. “I do not mind giving my life for my country, but I do mind giving my life for a food fight for political reasons between two groups of people who should be able to work it out like adults.” Mitchell alleged that no one from the Senate committee has ever asked him a single thing about the interrogations. “Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has the opportunity to address the charges against him, but I don’t,” he said. Mitchell told Kelly that he feels horrible because this report puts Americans at risk. “It shows al Qaeda and the al Qaeda 2.0 folks, ISIL, that we’re divided and that we’re easy targets, that we don’t have the will to defeat them because that’s what they know. In fact, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told me personally, ‘Your country will turn on you, the liberal media will turn on you, the people will grow tired of this, they will turn on you, and when they do, you are going to be abandoned.'”
As Charles P. Pierce points out he should have his professional license burned in front of his face. I’d go further and suggest he should then be consigned to cleaning toilets at a prison for the rest of his life.