Y'all do realize that the KSM shown here isn't "the real KSM who attended Chowan College, a small Baptist school in Murfreesboro, North Carolina, for one semester in 1983, and then transferred to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT), where he completed a degree in mechanical engineering in 1986.
With this level of education and foreign travel, the real KSM would have a much greater command of the English language than what we find in the transcript.
The transcript reveals that the detainee's English skills are very poor, not what one would expect from a person who earned an engineering degree from an American university, as did the real KSM.
There were no defense attorneys or members of the press allowed to the secret hearing in which the military tribunal heard the confession of the alleged architect of 9/11."
"David E. Klett, a retired professor of thermodynamics, had the real KSM in several of his classes. Asked about the photos of the person said to be the terror mastermind, Klett said, "I did not recognize that person. I never saw that face before."
"Syed Saleem Shahzad, a senior political correspondent with the Dawn Group of newspapers in Karachi, Pakistan, reported in October 2002 that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had been killed in a raid carried out by the FBI and ISI in Karachi on September 11, 2002"
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=101203

"Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, whose false tortured confession was used as basis for Bush's war, has reportedly committed suicide...
British journalist and historian Andy Worthington, an expert and author on Guantanamo, reports that the man who had supplied a key false tie between Iraq and al-Qaeda --- after being tortured in Egypt, where he had been rendered by the U.S. --- has died in a Libyan prison. "Dead of suicide in his cell," according to a Libyan newspaper.

Worthington has excellent coverage of the story tonight, which, he says, is "ablaze" in the Arabic media, but so far unreported in all but one English language outlet"

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7133

Why would anybody believe the Bush administrations account of 911 especially since they have been caught lying repeatedly and allways for nofarious reasons ? Of course 911 was an inside job and Obama is a coconspiritor for doing everything in his power to prevent a real investigation . Totrure is among the lesser evils perpetrated by Bushco that are easily provable . These guys should have been hanged for treason years ago .

CHENEY IS A WOUNDED EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE UN-INDICTED CO-CONSPIRATOR TO COMMIT WAR CRIMES. HE WILL HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO ROAR WHENEVER THE MEDIA RATTLE HIS CAGE.

The thing to see is what happens with more Congressional hearings. House leader Nancy Pelosi was caught off guard, it seems, when the Republican damage control machine finally started. The government has to keep the upper hand and inform the public on a regular basis that torture is illegal and treaties and federal law cannot be changed by secret to allow CIA to torture terrorist captives. It is unhealthy for American public and international audience to believe that law is unclear and the government can justify torture of terrorists if it is considered useful. Congress passed law a few years ago against out-of-control, secret CIA political assassinations. The logical followup would be to do now about torture, but this is question of pragmatic legislative process. Media cannot report accurately on complex political events. They go to political comedy shows and ideological debates by shrill commentators on MS-NBC and FOX. This is just reality to be accepted. Elected officials have to spend more time giving press conferences and appearing on moderate talk shows like PBS, ABC Nightline and so on. Public is getting used to seeing Pres. Obama give regular reports on his job. They see him as a college professor elected to repair federal government after Republican abuses. CIA is a troubled agency with a reactionary and violent history.

Don't be fooled by the main stream media and the Republican Pravda network and let them sidetrack you on the side show of Nancy Pelosi. This is nothing, but a cover-up to the Bushista crimes:

* The prime reason they had al Qaeda terrorist detainees Abu Zubydah and KSM tortured was not a ticking time bombe scenario, but an attempt by the Bushistas to solicit an Iraq-9/11 link. The Bushistas used that falsehood to lie us into an Iraq war..

* Torture for that purpose was clearly illegal -- even under the absurd memos justifying waterboarding by the Bushista lawyers. They said waterboarding could only be used if there was an imminent danger to this nation. The imminent danger was to the Bushista cover-up.

* Tricky Dickey' II's office, according to a a former NBC producer, ordered torture of an Iraqi detainee in an attempt to solicit an Iraq-9/11 link. They wanted one even if it was false.

* The torture of Zubydah was also likely a cover-up to his fingering the Saudi Roayl Family in 9/11. Do you really think it's a coincidence he was waterboarded 83 times after, according to two books by respected author/journalist Gerald Posner, he told interrogators that three princes made protection payments to al Qaeda and that one of the princes knew in advance about 9/11 and didn't tell us? Within less than four months after Zubydah made the allegations all three princes were killed in Saudi Arabia.

Did KSM confess to bringing down Building 7?

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/barry-jennings-speaks/

Did KSM and his merry men confess to rigging the towers for demolition?

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/thy-speech-shall-whisper-out-of-the-dust/

if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the "mastermind' of 9/11 our CIA and FBI are laughable wastes of money and should be let go so they can work at convenience stores selling gum and donuts.

This is not a surprise: government departments all over the world usually provide legal advice on the validity of an action long after the action has been taken. The CYA principle.

May I have some of that "change you can believe in", please, and soon. If there isn't change this lifetime then the perps will escape. Cheney, Rumsfeld and their army of torturers, abusers and murderers have an abvious case to answer. In the minds of some they are war criminals. Come to think of it, in my mind they are war criminals. And we have entirely forgotten the names of the 1 million dead Iraqis, who would be alive today had their country not been attacked by a coalition of shocking, awful lies. If the law counts for nothing Pres. Obama will also. My hope is dwindling. Real changee better come, soon. A presidential name change isn't enough.

I heard at least two news commentators not on Fox call Obama "Bush Lite" this morning. Copy the successful surge strategy from Iraq to Afghanistan, carry on with the military commissions at Gitmo, fight court orders to release detainee photos...Do they have a point?

Would those who still feel they need more proof of the deviant, sinister purpose of detainee abuse kindly raise your hands? An attendant will be around with suitable me dica tion.

Some part of the torture program seems to have been driven by sadists. I haven't heard or read about the effect these acts had on those who actually delivered the pain. It must take a special character to agree to deliberately cause harm to another. I'm sure you have to volunteer for the assignment. Excluding the doomsday or saving a loved one scenario; how many of us would be capable to fufill the task?

183 / 31 = 5.9 times per day! This has to be a record (of a sad kind). I hope Obama will quit waffling and compromising like he has been doing and get tough on the torturers. America needs to regain the good reputation we once had among the nations of the world.

Censors are ruining this forum! Why?