Letters to the Editor
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@HeavyG
I can't really believe I am coming to the defense of Double-A but her comment regarding the use of the blackened goggles on Padilla might have had some basis in truth.
She is old enough to remember (as am I) that one of our POW's held by North Vietnam was paraded out in front of the cameras once to basically tell everyone how well they were being treated but at the same time he did in fact use his eyelids to blink out the word torture in Morse code. As I recall, his captors later gave him another severe beating after they found out about what he did.
So that may have been in her mind when she made that statement.
That man was Jeremiah Denton, a real hero of Vietnam.
Althouse's comment was a slap in his face: she is essentially saying that she approves of the fact that Viet Cong torture techniques are being used by our government, but also that if knowledge of this might be leaked to the public by a blinking Padilla, we have to prevent that to keep our secret torture program going.