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::::You plainly think torture is a joke, and want to be sure that conservapedia reflects that. How contemptible.--[[User:PF Fox|PF Fox]] 21:07, 23 April 2007 (EDT)
::::You plainly think torture is a joke, and want to be sure that conservapedia reflects that. How contemptible.--[[User:PF Fox|PF Fox]] 21:07, 23 April 2007 (EDT)
:::::See #2 above, "accounts of escaped prisoners from one CIA prison in Afghanistan"; let's assume this is the source of the statement, "one prisoner said through a translator", becuase it couldn't have come from anywhere alse, as the US does not allow detainees to speak with reporters. This raises several very interesting issues about ''ABC News'' and this article.
:::::(1) This unnamed source is the only alleged victim of torture quoted. (2) How, and where did ''ABC News'' obtain direct access to this source. (3) Did ''ABC News'' infact have direct access to this source. (4) Assuming this statement can be ascribed to an escapee from a CIA interrogation center in Afghanistan, why should it be treated with any more validity than anything he told CIA under interrogation? We can presume he does not have anything nice to say about his captors, and as demonstrated in the article, why should we not presume the escapee told ''ABC News'' what ''ABC News'' wanted to hear, just as other alleged torture victims made up stories and told their torturers what they wanted to hear.
:::::So, other than this escapee -- and we can conclude this is the only direct testimony of an alleged torture victim cited in this article -- what credible source can testify they either underwent, or were a witness to, torture? [[User:RobS|RobS]] 21:25, 23 April 2007 (EDT)