Empty Hands,
You are 100% wrong. Former CIA director James Woolsey says so.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjNkYmU2NWVlOWE4MTU5MjhiOGNmMWUwMjdjZjU2ZjA=
KSM “didn’t resist,” one CIA veteran
said in the August 13 issue of
The New Yorker. “He sang right away. He cracked real quick.” Another CIA official
told ABC News: “KSM lasted the longest under water-boarding, about a minute and a half, but once he broke, it never had to be used again.”
KSMÂ’s
revelations helped authorities identify and incarcerate at least six major terrorists:
Ohio-based trucker
Iyman Faris pleaded guilty May 1, 2003 to providing material support to terrorists. He secured 2,000 sleeping bags for al-Qaeda and delivered cash, cell phones, and airline tickets to its men. He also conspired to derail a train near Washington, D.C. and use acetylene torches to sever the Brooklyn BridgeÂ’s cables, plunging it into the East River.
Jemaah Islamiya (JI) agent
Rusman “Gun Gun” Gunawan was
convicted of transferring money to bomb JakartaÂ’s Marriott Hotel, killing 12 and injuring 150.
Hambali, GunawanÂ’s brother and ringleader of JIÂ’s October 2002
Bali nightclub blasts, killed 202 and wounded 209.
Suspected al-Qaeda agent
Majid Khan, officials say, provided money to JI terrorists and plotted to assassinate Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf, detonate U.S. gas stations, and poison American water reservoirs.
Jose Padilla, who trained with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, was convicted last August of providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to kidnap, maim, and murder people overseas. Padilla, suspected of but not charged with planning a radioactive “dirty bomb” attack, reportedly learned to incinerate residential high-rises by igniting apartments filled with natural gas.
Malaysian
Yazid Sufaat, an American-educated biochemist and
JI member, reportedly provided hijackers Khalid al-Midhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi housing in Kuala Lumpur during a January 2000 9-11 planning summit. He also is suspected of employing “20th hijacker” Zacarias
Moussaoui. Page 151 of
The 9-11 Commission Report states: “Sufaat would spend several months attempting to cultivate
anthrax for al Qaeda in a laboratory he helped set up near the Kandahar airport.”
Imagine how many innocent people these six Islamo-fascists (and perhaps others) would have murdered, had interrogators left KSM unwaterboarded and his secrets unuttered.
“The most important source of intelligence we had after 9/11 came from the interrogation of high-value detainees,” Robert Grenier, former chief of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, told
The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer. He called KSM “the most valuable of the high-value detainees, because he had operational knowledge.”
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DIRECTOR McCONNELL: LetÂ’s take it from the beginning. Has waterboarding ever been used by a professional organization whose mission is to extract information? The answer is yes. You might ask what are the circumstances? Three times. Situations where thereÂ’s been interrogation over a period of time. It was unsuccessful. Water boarding was used and then information started to flow.
Just to put it in context, probably upwards of a quarter to a third of all the information generated in this period of time came from these three individuals. ItÂ’s saved lives.
I would be willing to say itÂ’s saved lives for some of the people who know, of people who are known to people in this room. So youÂ’ve got to ask yourself the question,
is it worth it?
care to reevaluate your statement?
