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Quotes about so-called "waterboarding help" Skeeve the Great Send a noteboard - 03/05/2011 04:00:13 PM
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/121139389.html?cmpid=15585797
Mohammed did not reveal the names while being subjected to the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding, former officials said. He identified them many months later under standard interrogation, they said


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/asia/03intel.html?pagewanted=2&ref=todayspaper
By 2005, many inside the C.I.A. had reached the conclusion that the Bin Laden hunt had grown cold(Skeeve: the trail was cold in 2005, so waterboarding did nothing to help), and the agency’s top clandestine officer ordered an overhaul of the agency’s counterterrorism operations...With more agents in the field, the C.I.A. finally got the courier’s family name. With that, they turned to one of their greatest investigative tools — the National Security Agency began intercepting telephone calls and e-mail messages between the man’s family and anyone inside Pakistan. From there they got his full name


Runmsfeld (I provided link yesterday):
it was not harsh treatment and it was not waterboarding


White House deputy national security advisor John Brennan on Morning Jokes:
“So we’ve been talking about the different details and methods that lead up to this moment, and obviously there is word out today that waterboarding played a very big role or role in actually getting the information,” MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski told Brennan. “Is that the case?” “Not to my knowledge,” Brennan explained.
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As per ABC News - waterboarding worked in the locating/killing OBL..... trzaska2000 - 02/05/2011 07:06:12 PM 907 Views
Many other violent methods would have worked as well, I'm sure. nossy - 02/05/2011 07:41:58 PM 638 Views
That's actually the big issue, in my view beetnemesis - 02/05/2011 07:48:06 PM 578 Views
I have always been 100% okay with "torturing" the 4 terrorists via waterboarding..... trzaska2000 - 02/05/2011 08:07:56 PM 598 Views
Yeah... but you think those 4 were the only ones? *NM* beetnemesis - 02/05/2011 08:11:48 PM 242 Views
I have no evidence/reason to think the government is lying about waterboarding. trzaska2000 - 02/05/2011 08:18:34 PM 564 Views
Are you able to ask that w/o any sarcasm? nossy - 02/05/2011 09:29:41 PM 585 Views
Er, yes? beetnemesis - 03/05/2011 01:10:37 AM 579 Views
Of course torture sometimes works. beetnemesis - 02/05/2011 07:45:01 PM 585 Views
Ends, means, yadda, yadda, yadda. *NM* Dannymac - 02/05/2011 08:09:13 PM 243 Views
Nah, they probably got that tidbit withholding their daily Doritos ration. TaskmasterJack - 02/05/2011 08:28:49 PM 607 Views
Unless you can provide an actual link, this is just speculation by commentators. *NM* Variant - 02/05/2011 09:48:55 PM 270 Views
I beleive if they hadn't torture them, we would've got the info much earlier Skeeve the Great - 02/05/2011 10:39:02 PM 894 Views
You have ifs and maybes, I have the facts and what happened. Waterboarding won this round. trzaska2000 - 03/05/2011 04:07:24 AM 600 Views
You can wish. Waterboarding did nothing to help. *NM* Skeeve the Great - 03/05/2011 07:36:40 AM 264 Views
Quotes about so-called "waterboarding help" Skeeve the Great - 03/05/2011 04:00:13 PM 595 Views
post your facts if you have them. so far you have offered nothing.... *NM* moondog - 03/05/2011 04:16:03 PM 257 Views
you believe it because a blogger said so or is it simply a matter of faith? random thoughts - 03/05/2011 05:26:53 PM 664 Views
Re: you believe it because a blogger said so or is it simply a matter of faith? Skeeve the Great - 03/05/2011 08:12:37 PM 756 Views
Leon Panette disagrees with you random thoughts - 06/05/2011 04:12:24 PM 689 Views
Epic. Dragonsoul - 02/05/2011 10:46:39 PM 628 Views
Well, according to Rumsfeld, waterboarding connection is bullshit. Skeeve the Great - 03/05/2011 01:07:58 AM 860 Views
Having a Pakistani government not in complicity with AQ would be better than waterboarding. *NM* Macharius - 03/05/2011 02:13:56 PM 245 Views
Any actual facts on this yet? snoopcester - 03/05/2011 04:04:38 PM 569 Views
it's as much of a link as the breakfast you had 6 years ago making you crash your car today moondog - 03/05/2011 04:18:29 PM 565 Views
Re: it's as much of a link as the breakfast you had 6 years ago making you crash your car today dart_board - 06/05/2011 12:43:26 PM 655 Views
torture was against our beliefs the first 225 years of our existence.... moondog - 06/05/2011 04:16:19 PM 539 Views
horseshit random thoughts - 06/05/2011 04:14:57 PM 555 Views
come on you know torture doesn't work. The experts said so *NM* random thoughts - 03/05/2011 05:13:12 PM 262 Views
Water boarding is not torture dart_board - 06/05/2011 12:41:06 PM 525 Views
Re: Water boarding is not torture Skeeve the Great - 06/05/2011 06:25:33 PM 591 Views
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