During the Republican presidential debate on November 28, 2007, Mitt Romney refused to admit that waterboarding is torture. He justified his refusal to rule out torturing prisoners with waterboarding by citing the advice of a man named Cofur Black. Romney said, “I get that advice from Cofer Black, who is a person who was responsible for counterterrorism in the CIA for some 35 years.”
Who is this Cofur Black? He’s Vice Chairman at Blackwater USA, the company that sends mercenaries over to Iraq and has been caught murdering unarmed Iraqi civilians.
Cofur Black also became infamous for promising to impale the severed heads of prisoners on sticks: “We’re going to put their heads on sticks. When we’re through with them they will have flies walking across their eyeballs.”
Mitt Romney thinks that someone like Cofur Black is just the sort of person who ought to be advising the President of the United States about whether torture is a good idea.
That’s why Mitt Romney must never become President.
(Source: Think Progress, November 28, 2007)
