Hold on a second, SL - if this confession is “the truth,” does that mean we can now stop looking for Osama? We now know he wasn’t the mastermind and organizer of the event?

Isn’t that wonderful? No need for bunker bombs in Afghanistan anymore!

Closure comes from seeing justice done and the perpetrators hunted down and killed. Acceptance of acceptance of grief will give no closure.

Why is this news?

As Canadian Cynic points out, this was announced in 2003. I suspect this is nothing more than a well timed diversion considering Gonzales’ current issues with perjury and the truth.

That sort of comment really is beneath you shlemzl, did I say anything at all about some Mossad/CIA conspiracy? You can choose to argue the point, or you can choose to try and throw up a bunch of smoke and mirrors - a real argument disputing my statement is the better option IMO.

My premise is that the confession is tainted by the fact that the US used torture to extract the information. I make that statement using the values that western society has developed surrounding the use of confessions obtained using those tactics and the decisions we came come to regarding the use of those tactics against our own citizens on home soil.

– can you imagine a federal prosecutor standing up in front of any judge in the land and claiming that, after an extended period of confinement and water boarding, the defendant confessed to beating up that little old lady and stealing her handbag so he must be guilty?

(Having said that I will also state that I operate under no illusions (or delusions) that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is anywhere close to “salt of the earth” category so please don’t bother going down that road.)

If you believe that information/confessions obtained by torture and abuse is/are legitimate and that torture and abuse are legitimate methods of gaining information/confessions that will promote the cause they are used in aid of then come out and say so…. and then, if you are so inclined, we’ll discuss that.