CNN’s pendejo correspondent Anderson Cooper could have apologized for comparing CIA interrogation tactics to the genocidal Nazis and commie Khmer Rouge, but instead he gave a snooty tweet “obviously” clarifying what he meant:
To clear up any confusion, I obviously do not think what US did was equivalent to horrors of genocidal regimes.
— Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) December 11, 2014
Uhhh… but if that’s that case, then….
well @andersoncooper, if you had to "clear up confusion," it wasn't obvious, was it? https://t.co/ebpS234CpB
— el Sooper ن (@SooperMexican) December 11, 2014
He also explained,
I did not say that the CIA actions against terrorists were in any way equivalent to horrors of the Nazis, as some now imply I said
— Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) December 11, 2014
I did say that some techniques used by CIA were ones used by Khmer Rouge and others. When KR water boarded it was considered torture.
— Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) December 11, 2014
One can debate if torture works and should be used but call it what it is.
— Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) December 11, 2014
To clear up any confusion, I obviously do not think what US did was equivalent to horrors of genocidal regimes.
— Anderson Cooper (@andersoncooper) December 11, 2014
Here are his original comments:
The account of the genocidal communist murderers in Cambodia using waterboarding varies significantly from how the CIA did it, and it comes from one source, a man who was tortured in one of their prisons:
Nath described: “He would hang upside down into the water tank. When the water was filled up to the nose of the prisoner the prisoner wasn’t able to breathe. . . . After the interrogation finished, they were taken away and shot.”
Although to be fair, this account sounds more like the CIA methods:
Alternatively, Nath explained: “The prisoner was tied up both hand and leg and laid on his back on a slanted table. His face was covered by a cloth. . . . The interrogator poured water on the face and the prisoner could not have the chance to breath. They started to get convulsions.”
So is it a fair comparison or an attempt by Cooper to demonize the CIA?
There’s a reason you’re considered to lose a debate if you start comparing everything to the Nazis.