Liberals attribute tweeting to action in the search for the girls but refuse to this day to attribute the killing of UBL to the interrogations done under Bush.
YYyyyyyeaah, because while underwater the guy said "I can tell you where he will be three and a half years from now..."
He was never "underwater." That's dunking, a separate means.
However as it turns out, Bin Laden had some errand boys that had overlapping duties and timelines so it was possible to follow the chain of
assistants and narrow the possible search area. That led to another
operation where DNA was collected from the compound in Abbotabad.
I don't know (and I doubt we'll ever know) that waterboarding specifically helped in this case. I suspect it did, but that's based on my experience in this area and the manner in which it and other tactics are used. I do know that waterboarding did not prevent the good result from happening, nobody died from waterboarding, and no permanent injury has resulted from waterboarding.
Interrogating hardened targets is a tricky business, and I'd rather not have a significant tool removed from the set of options due to an emotional response. It's not ice picks in the patella and it's not working from the toes to the groin with a hammer, which is exactly what our guys get when Bin Laden's folks capture people who had been classified as KIA.
Waterboarding hasn't stopped, our President has just
outsourced it to others.