We don’t know if there was such unusual "chatter" then, but it’s unlikely Zubaydah could have added information if there were.
Perhaps some new facts may yet emerge if Dick Cheney succeeds in his unexpected and welcome crusade to declassify documents
that he says will exonerate administration interrogation policies. Meanwhile, we do have evidence for an alternative explanation of
what motivated Bybee to write his memo that August, thanks to the comprehensive Senate Armed Services Committee report on
detainees released last week.
The report found that Maj. Paul Burney, a United States Army psychiatrist assigned to Gitmo interrogations that summer of 2002,
told Army investigators of another White House imperative: "A large part of the time we were focused on trying to establish a link
between Al Qaeda and Iraq and we were not being successful." As higher-ups got more "frustrated" at the inability to prove this
connection, the major said, "there was more and more pressure to resort to measures" that might produce that intelligence.
In other words, the ticking time bomb was not another potential Qaeda attack on America
but the Bush bastard's ticking timetable for selling a war in Iraq.
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