Exclusive: Private letter from CIA chief undercuts claim torture was key to killing B

Some of the detainees who provided useful information about the facilitator/courier’s role had been subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques. Whether those techniques were the “only timely and effective way” to obtain such information is a matter of debate and cannot be established definitively. What is definitive is that that information was only a part of multiple streams of intelligence that led us to Bin Ladin.

Let me further point out that we first learned about the facilitator/courier’s nom de guerre from a detainee not in CIA custody in 2002. It is also important to note that some detainees who were subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques attempted to provide false or misleading information about the facilitator/courier. These attempts to falsify the facilitator/courier’s role were alerting.

In the end, no detainee in CIA custody revealed the facilitator/courier’s full true name or specific whereabouts. This information was discovered through other intelligence means.

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megaprogman said:

Exclusive: Private letter from CIA chief undercuts claim torture was key to killing Bin Laden - The Plum Line - The Washington Post



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I am very happy to hear that torture is not justified in this manner.

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MrVicchio said:

Anything to keep your political ideology alive.

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megaprogman said:

Yep, a letter from the CIA director is "anything"

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MrVicchio said:

This letter is pure politics, it's the Administration trying to deflect any credit from the Bush administration. It's just crass red meat for the true believers. Oh look... I'll leave the thread so you guys can feed.

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megaprogman said:

So you have resorted to making up a scenario?

Anything to keep your ideology alive.

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