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RUSH: One more bite here, Jose Rodriguez back on Fox last night. He was the lead interrogator. He was one of the guys that interrogated Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. We’ve played his sound bites with Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes. In fact, I’ll play it again here in just a second. But first, Megyn Kelly said (paraphrasing): These people, Senate staffers, they’re so critical of you and your program, and yet when asked to justify the drone program, where does the White House go? Right to the terrorist behavior to try to justify what we’re doing is in response to what they’re doing. So the White House is perfectly fine to drone these guys to death. The White House is perfectly fine, because these guys are engaging in activity to kill us, so we’re gonna kill them and we’re gonna drone ’em. And they defend that, but when it comes to what you did, Mr. Rodriguez, you don’t get that same benefit of the doubt.


RODRIGUEZ: I am so tired of hearing from the president and others in this administration that this program was against our values. It is an excuse, an excuse not to capture and interrogate terrorists because this administration does not have the fortitude and the courage to do what it takes to do the mission of capturing and detaining terrorists. They’d rather kill, and somehow, because they kill from a distance, it is more ethical than actually capturing and interrogating terrorists, which is actually a little messier and unpleasant.

RUSH: Now, this is what you call hitting back. This is something Republicans on Capitol Hill could learn from. This is called hitting back. This is called hitting back hard. This is Jose Rodriguez. Oh, yeah, it’s really brave and it’s really gutsy for these guys to drone these enemies to death from afar, just drone ’em and kill ’em, but they don’t have the fortitude or the courage to actually capture, detain, and interrogate.

Just so you remember who this man is, Lesley Stahl interviewed him. She was in a total state of bewilderment the whole time. He wrote a book about what happened at CIA, what happened at Club Gitmo, detailing some of the techniques, detailing some of the experience he had with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others. She just could not believe it. She could not believe that we gave them Ensure. To her, that was dire. Ensure, why, that’s for a cancer patient in a hospital, we gave that? Oh, God, that’s horrible.

Lesley Stahl wouldn’t drink it, so it’s got to be bad. Lesley Stahl wouldn’t take that stuff, “Ooh, this is heartless, what we do to people, give them Ensure.” So it’s funny. She’s going on and on about how rotten we are, and these techniques are just so abominable. And she’s asking him about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, how he reacted to all of this mistreatment. She said, “So, what happens, Senor Rodriguez? Does Khalid Sheikh Mohammed break down? Does he cry? Does he fall apart over the meanness of the United States?”

RODRIGUEZ: No, he gets a good night’s sleep. He gets his Ensure. By the way, he was very heavy when he came to us. He lost 50 pounds.

STAHL: What, his Ensure, you mean like people in the hospital who drink that stuff?

RODRIGUEZ: Yes. Dietary manipulation was part of these dire techniques.

STAHL: So sleep deprivation, dietary manipulation. I mean, this is Orwellian stuff. The United States doesn’t do that.

RODRIGUEZ: Well, we do.

RUSH: That is, to me, priceless. Every word of that, both people, is priceless. He is openly mocking her. She has no idea. “Yes, Ensure, dietary manipulation was part of these dire techniques.” She really does think giving somebody Ensure is dire. She even missed the fact that we treated him so well, he lost 50 pounds. Who knows how long we extended his life. He lost 50 pounds. He became healthier as a result of our torture, quote, unquote. Totally misses that, equates Ensure with absolute horror. (imitating Stahl) “Dietary manipulate, Ensure, we don’t do this!” “Oh, but we do.” (laughing)

I don’t know. I’ve never met this guy, but I can tell you I instinctively like him.


BREAK TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: One more bite here, Jose Rodriguez back on Fox last night. He was the lead interrogator. He was one of the guys that interrogated Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. We’ve played his sound bites with Lesley Stahl on 60 Minutes. In fact, I will play it again here in just a second. But first, Megyn Kelly said (paraphrasing), “These people, Senate staffers, they’re so critical of you and your program, and yet when asked to justify the drone program, where does the White House go? Right to the terrorist behavior to try to justify what we’re doing is in response to what they’re doing. So the White House is perfectly fine to drone these guys to death. The White House is perfectly fine, because these guys are engaging in activity to kill us, so we’re gonna kill them and we’re gonna drone ’em. And they defend that, but when it comes to what you did, Mr. Rodriguez, you don’t get that same benefit of the doubt.

RODRIGUEZ: I am so tired of hearing from the president and others in this administration that this program was against our values. It is an excuse, an excuse not to capture and interrogate terrorists because this administration does not have the fortitude and the courage to do what it takes to do the mission of capturing and detaining terrorists. They’d rather kill, and somehow, because they kill from a distance, it is more ethical than actually capturing and interrogating terrorists, which is actually a little messier and unpleasant.

RUSH: Now, this is what you call hitting back. This is something Republicans on Capitol Hill could learn from. This is called hitting back. This is called hitting back hard. This is Jose Rodriguez. Oh, yeah, it’s really brave and it’s really gutsy for these guys to drone these enemies to death from afar, just drone ’em and kill ’em, but they don’t have the fortitude or the courage to actually capture, detain, and interrogate.

Just so you remember who this man is, Lesley Stahl interviewed him. She was in a total state of bewilderment the whole time. He wrote a book about what happened at CIA, what happened at Club Gitmo, detailing some of the techniques, detailing some of the experience he had with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others. She just could not believe it. She could not believe that we gave them Ensure. To her, that was dire. Ensure, why, that’s for a cancer patient in a hospital, we gave that? Oh, God, that’s horrible.

Lesley Stahl wouldn’t drink it, so it’s got to be bad. Lesley Stahl wouldn’t take that stuff, “Ooh, this is heartless, what we do to people, give them Ensure.” So it’s funny. She’s going on and on about how rotten we are, and these techniques are just so abominable. And she’s asking him about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, how he reacted to all of this mistreatment. She said, “So, what happens, Senor Rodriguez? Does Khalid Sheikh Mohammed break down? Does he cry? Does he fall apart over the meanness of the United States?”

RODRIGUEZ: No, he gets a good night’s sleep. He gets his Ensure. By the way, he was very heavy when he came to us. He lost 50 pounds.

STAHL: What, his Ensure, you mean like people in the hospital who drink that stuff?

RODRIGUEZ: Yes. Dietary manipulation was part of these dire techniques.

STAHL: So sleep deprivation, dietary manipulation. I mean, this is Orwellian stuff. The United States doesn’t do that.

RODRIGUEZ: Well, we do.

RUSH: That is, to me, priceless. Every word of that, both people, is priceless. He is openly mocking her. She has no idea. “Yes, Ensure, dietary manipulation was part of these dire techniques.” She really does think giving somebody Ensure is dire. She even missed the fact that we treated him so well, he lost 50 pounds. Who knows how long we extended his life. He lost 50 pounds. He became healthier as a result of our torture, quote, unquote. Totally misses that, equates Ensure with absolute horror. (imitating Stahl) “Dietary manipulate, Ensure, we don’t do this!” “Oh, but we do.” (laughing)

I don’t know. I’ve never met this guy, but I can tell you I instinctively like him.

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