If I suggested to you that George Bush was the type of little boy who liked to pull the wings off flies, or torture little animals, would you disagree? Most likely not. He has about him the air of the coward who takes a special delight in inflicting pain on those weaker than himself. If such a person can’t be in on the action, he or she might certainly get some vicarious thrills by watching. There are, after all, many kinds of pornography. So it comes as no surprise that George may have spent some time watching those famous tapes (the ones he knew nothing about):
Larry Johnson, a former CIA officer, believes the scandal could reach deep into the White House. “The CIA and Jose Rodriguez look bad, but he’s probably the least culpable person in the process. He didn’t wake up one day and decide, ‘I’m going to destroy these tapes.’ He checked with a lot of people and eventually he is going to get his say.”
…“It looks increasingly as though the decision was made by the White House,” said Johnson. He believes it is “highly likely” that Bush saw one of the videos, as he was interested in Zubaydah’s case and received frequent updates on his interrogation from George Tenet, the CIA director at the time.
Bush had no real job related reason to watch those tapes, but it seems more than probable that he would get a kick out of watching, all the while knowing that it was all his doing, if only by remote control. What a feeling of power for the former little bully. It’s a chilling thought, really, to imagine the President of the United States sitting in the Oval Office, getting his rocks off watching another human being be tortured. Makes you pine for the day when the President got his Oval Office kicks a little differently.
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