Washington – Intelligence garnered from waterboarded detainees was used to track down al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and kill him, CIA Chief Leon Panetta told NBC News on Tuesday.
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“Enhanced interrogation techniques” were used to extract information that led to the mission’s success, Panetta said during an interview with anchor Brian Williams. Those techniques included waterboarding, he acknowledged.
Panetta, who in a 2009 CIA confirmation hearing declared “waterboarding is torture and it’s wrong,” said Tuesday that debate about its use will continue.
“Whether we would have gotten the same information through other approaches I think is always gonna be an open question,” Panetta said.
“In the intelligence business you work from a lot of sources of information and that was true here,” Panetta said. “We had a multiple source — a multiple series of sources — that provided information with regards to the situation. Clearly some of it came from detainees and the interrogation of detainees but we also had information from other sources as well.”
I hope all you libs out there choke while reading this. Now, let’s hear all of you together now, “We like water boarding!!”
Osama bin Ladin is getting water boarding right now unless the sharks got to him already.
Let’s find more ways to pry the info out of Gitmo. How about water sking and water boarding?
Rumsfeld denies that the info came from water boarding or other stuff like that. on CNN
I think before anybody says well you see Bush was right or wrong one needs to wait a while. Since the first few days when such an event happens the story will change many times as it has already.
Regardless it seems that some cannot give any credit to Obama, he got done and did not err in seeking Pakistan approval or let them know it will happen.
If the info came because of Bush and Cheney then they also get credit.
But that does not answer the question if we should torture or not, it just means it works sometimes
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You liberals if you had your way to stop the war and end the bush policies Osama would be alive. So yes thank you President Bush.
Any1 know
What is water boarding ?
Any method to save the country and the world from terrorist. osama yemoch shemo was a terrorist and needed to be destroyed