Lakhota
Diamond Member
Not sure why I am responding to you, but here goes....
ENHANCED INTERROGATIONS
If Obama had his way years ago... they would have ended long before we had the evidence we needed. Hell...he and his fellow travelers put a stop to it, and now they just kill them rather than capture and interrogate them.
Ok.... now go ahead and refute my evidence.
OK.
I asked CIA Director Leon Panetta for the facts, and he told me the following: The trail to bin Laden did not begin with a disclosure from Khalid Sheik Mohammed, who was waterboarded 183 times. The first mention of Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti the nickname of the al-Qaeda courier who ultimately led us to bin Laden as well as a description of him as an important member of al-Qaeda, came from a detainee held in another country, who we believe was not tortured. None of the three detainees who were waterboarded provided Abu Ahmeds real name, his whereabouts or an accurate description of his role in al-Qaeda.
In fact, the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on Khalid Sheik Mohammed produced false and misleading information. He specifically told his interrogators that Abu Ahmed had moved to Peshawar, got married and ceased his role as an al-Qaeda facilitator none of which was true. According to the staff of the Senate intelligence committee, the best intelligence gained from a CIA detainee information describing Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaitis real role in al-Qaeda and his true relationship to bin Laden was obtained through standard, noncoercive means.
I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners sometimes produces good intelligence but often produces bad intelligence because under torture a person will say anything he thinks his captors want to hear true or false if he believes it will relieve his suffering. Often, information provided to stop the torture is deliberately misleading.
Bin Laden’s death and the debate over torture - The Washington Post
It was a secret [CIA prison in a country that routinely tortures people, and you believe it when the government tells you he wasn't tortured?
Do you have better sources of reliable information than Panetta?