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Hmmmm, no name "officials" in 2009 or Leon Panetta in the here and now.CIA Director Leon Panetta stomped on the White Houses political script when he told Tuesday nights broadcast of NBC Nightly News that the waterboarding of jihadi detainees contributed information that led to the location and killing of Osama bin Laden.
We had multiple series of sources that provided information with regards to this situation clearly some of it came from detainees [and] they used these enhanced interrogation techniques against some of those detainees, he told NBC anchor Brian Williams.
When asked by Williams if water-boarding was part of the enhanced interrogation techniques, Panetta simply said thats correct.
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He said waterboarding was part of enhanced interrogation" not that it any way led to the capture of OBL. You left a lot out of that conversation.
Officials: Waterboarding Foiled No Plot - CBS News
Officials: Waterboarding Foiled No Plot
When CIA officials subjected their first high-value captive, Abu Zubaida, to waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods, they were convinced that they had in their custody an al Qaeda leader who knew details of operations yet to be unleashed, and they were facing increasing pressure from the White House to get those secrets out of him.
The methods succeeded in breaking him, and the stories he told of al Qaeda terrorism plots sent CIA officers around the globe chasing leads.
In the end, though, not a single significant plot was foiled as a result of Abu Zubaida's tortured confessions, according to former senior government officials who closely followed the interrogations. Nearly all of the leads attained through the harsh measures quickly evaporated, while most of the useful information from Abu Zubaida - chiefly names of al Qaeda members and associates - was obtained before waterboarding was introduced, they said.
I'm sticking with the facts you can have your fantasy.