Lynndie England and unnamed victim. Not pictured: contractor who made her do it

Listening to NPR, National Propaganda Radio in the mornings like I do, I hear some pretty amazing apologies for the state on an almost daily basis, but this is a new one on me;

“on Wednesday, a former FBI interrogator testified that CIA contractors were the people on the ground who pushed hardest for abusive interrogations in 2002.

Former interrogator Ali Soufan helped question Abu Zubaydah — the first high-value detainee in American custody.

“The interrogation team was a combination between FBI and CIA, and all of us had the same opinion that contradicted with the contractor,” said Soufan. “The contractors had to keep requesting authorization to use harsher and harsher methods.”

Soufan’s written testimony said contractors used nudity, sleep deprivation, loud noise and temperature manipulation against Zubaydah, even before the Justice Department provided legal permission in writing.

Soufan said the contractors did not have any experience in interrogations. They reportedly came from a school where the Army trained American personnel to resist torture.”

This is the most ludicrous thing I have ever heard -  that the CIA, with its 60-year history of murder, assassination, violent subversion, torture, and rendition, is now trying to pin responsibility for torturing people in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere on…contractors that worked for them.