The New York Times
05/01/12 Scott Shane
“Role of Torture Revisited in Bin Laden Narrative: 2 Senate Democrats Reject a Defense”
Joining in the latest round of an old dispute, the
Democratic senators who lead the intelligence and armed services committees
took issue on Monday with claims from Bush administration officials that the
Central Intelligence Agency’s coercive interrogation methods produced
information that led to the killing of Osama bin Laden a year ago.
The statement from Senators Dianne Feinstein of California,
chairwoman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, and Carl Levin of Michigan,
chairman of the Armed Services Committee, called the notion that the so-called enhanced interrogation methods helped the
C.I.A. find Bin Laden by identifying his courier “misguided and misinformed.”
“Instead, the C.I.A. learned of the existence of the courier, his true name and location
through means unrelated to the C.I.A. detention and interrogation program,”
the statement said, without elaborating. The senators said their conclusions
were based on a three-year study of the agency’s interrogation program by the
intelligence committee staff that is nearing completion but remains secret.
The statement took issue with claims about the value of
waterboarding and other brutal interrogation methods from the former attorney
general, Michael B. Mukasey; the former C.I.A. director, Michael V. Hayden; and
the former director of the agency’s clandestine service, Jose A. Rodriguez Jr.
Mr. Rodriguez revived the long-running controversy with his defense of coercive
interrogations in a new memoir, “Hard Measures,” and an appearance Sunday night
on the CBS News program “60 Minutes.”
The statement rebutted various claims that critical
information about Bin Laden’s courier came from Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the
planner of the Sept. 11 attacks, who was subjected to waterboarding 183 times.
Nor did such information come from another Qaeda figure, Abu Faraj al-Libi, who
received some harsh treatment, though he was not waterboarded, the statement
said.
Common Sense Review
Once again the Dems clearly don’t show support for the
people who keep them safe. You would
have to have your head in the sand, not to believe the US uses techniques to
get information on potential attacks. We
need to stand with our people who do what we ourselves couldn’t do to keep the
US safe from attack.
Now let’s be realistic.
You’re telling me that Senators on the Armed Services Committee didn’t
know that waterboarding, sleep deprivation, psychological manipulation was
being use on combatants. This is an out
in out lie. Everything is in a
report. From the technique use to the
outcomes, a report is written and sent to DC.
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