Letters to the Editor
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Why Would Anyone in Gitmo Know About an Attack in the United States Now?
The stupidity inherent in the Hume question was apparently not commented upon. Why would people taken prisoner years ago know anything about attacks that, since one of these Republicans would be president, are postulated to take place two years from now? Or maybe five years, when some of the Gitmo prisoners will have been held essentially incommuncado for a decade?
What could they possibly know about a current operation? You could torture them until the cows come home and learn nothing. Of course, I suppose once you've set up the premise that one of these people might actually become president, the lesser absurdities flow forth more easily.
And Jack Bauer doesn't torture anyone not plausibly in possession of real-time knowledge of the situation. "24" is not a TV version of "Hostel" where victims are tortured for no apparent reason other than sadism. Perhaps some of these clowns who invoke the show should bother to actually watch it. It's pretty exciting, although this season has not been its best.