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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..... - 02/05/2011 07:06:12 PM 1059 Views
Many other violent methods would have worked as well, I'm sure. - 02/05/2011 07:41:58 PM 769 Views
That's actually the big issue, in my view - 02/05/2011 07:48:06 PM 726 Views
I have always been 100% okay with "torturing" the 4 terrorists via waterboarding..... - 02/05/2011 08:07:56 PM 726 Views
Yeah... but you think those 4 were the only ones? *NM* - 02/05/2011 08:11:48 PM 296 Views
I have no evidence/reason to think the government is lying about waterboarding. - 02/05/2011 08:18:34 PM 728 Views
Are you able to ask that w/o any sarcasm? - 02/05/2011 09:29:41 PM 741 Views
Er, yes? - 03/05/2011 01:10:37 AM 715 Views
Of course torture sometimes works. - 02/05/2011 07:45:01 PM 728 Views
Ends, means, yadda, yadda, yadda. *NM* - 02/05/2011 08:09:13 PM 300 Views
Nah, they probably got that tidbit withholding their daily Doritos ration. - 02/05/2011 08:28:49 PM 751 Views
I beleive if they hadn't torture them, we would've got the info much earlier - 02/05/2011 10:39:02 PM 1078 Views
You have ifs and maybes, I have the facts and what happened. Waterboarding won this round. - 03/05/2011 04:07:24 AM 750 Views
You can wish. Waterboarding did nothing to help. *NM* - 03/05/2011 07:36:40 AM 316 Views
Quotes about so-called "waterboarding help" - 03/05/2011 04:00:13 PM 742 Views
you believe it because a blogger said so or is it simply a matter of faith? - 03/05/2011 05:26:53 PM 818 Views
Re: you believe it because a blogger said so or is it simply a matter of faith? - 03/05/2011 08:12:37 PM 900 Views
Leon Panette disagrees with you - 06/05/2011 04:12:24 PM 845 Views
Epic. - 02/05/2011 10:46:39 PM 779 Views
Well, according to Rumsfeld, waterboarding connection is bullshit. - 03/05/2011 01:07:58 AM 1019 Views
Any actual facts on this yet? - 03/05/2011 04:04:38 PM 713 Views
it's as much of a link as the breakfast you had 6 years ago making you crash your car today - 03/05/2011 04:18:29 PM 721 Views
horseshit - 06/05/2011 04:14:57 PM 714 Views
come on you know torture doesn't work. The experts said so *NM* - 03/05/2011 05:13:12 PM 323 Views
Water boarding is not torture - 06/05/2011 12:41:06 PM 656 Views
Re: Water boarding is not torture - 06/05/2011 06:25:33 PM 747 Views

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