Yes, waterboarding is very uncomfortable. It scares the bejeebers out of people. Apparently, it also makes them yield valuable information.
If you’re a liberal, imagine that your family was in danger of being killed. Imagine that man who ordered them to be killed was sitting in your living room. What would you do to the man? Write him a strongly-worded letter?
Thousands of American lives were saved because the CIA made Bluto uncomfortable. Was it worth it? Hell, yes.
From CNSNews.com:
If you’re a liberal, imagine that your family was in danger of being killed. Imagine that man who ordered them to be killed was sitting in your living room. What would you do to the man? Write him a strongly-worded letter?Thousands of American lives were saved because the CIA made Bluto uncomfortable. Was it worth it? Hell, yes.
From CNSNews.com:
According to the previously classified May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that was released by President Barack Obama last week, the thwarted attack — which KSM called the “Second Wave”— planned ” ‘to use East Asian operatives to crash a hijacked airliner into’ a building in Los Angeles.”
KSM was the mastermind of the first “hijacked-airliner” attacks on the United States, which struck the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Northern Virginia on Sept. 11, 2001.
After KSM was captured by the United States, he was not initially cooperative with CIA interrogators. Nor was another top al Qaeda leader named Zubaydah. KSM, Zubaydah, and a third terrorist named Nashiri were the only three persons ever subjected to waterboarding by the CIA. (Additional terrorist detainees were subjected to other “enhanced techniques” that included slapping, sleep deprivation, dietary limitations, and temporary confinement to small spaces — but not to water-boarding.)
This was because the CIA imposed very tight restrictions on the use of waterboarding. “The ‘waterboard,’ which is the most intense of the CIA interrogation techniques, is subject to additional limits,” explained the May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo. “It may be used on a High Value Detainee only if the CIA has ‘credible intelligence that a terrorist attack is imminent’; ‘substantial and credible indicators that the subject has actionable intelligence that can prevent, disrupt or deny this attack’; and ‘[o]ther interrogation methods have failed to elicit this information within the perceived time limit for preventing the attack.’”
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