Credibility ...

JG has been having some fun with Khalid Mohammed confessing to everything including the Chicago fire, but Digby brings up a good point:

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It may all be true. But because this government has insisted that "sending a message" of toughness will make suicide bombers turn tail and give up --- and seems to truly believe that a false confession is a good as a real one, we have no way of knowing. This guy is by all accounts a very bad man, I don't doubt it. But the details of his confessions are meaningless because of this administration's short sighted and immoral policies.

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I mean, does anybody with a brain believe this is anything more than a way to deflect attention from the other scandals taking up news time this week?