The Washington Post reports that a former CIA agent who was involved in interrogations of captured al-Qaeda terrorists claims that waterboarding works!
A former CIA officer who participated in the capture and questioning of the first al-Qaeda terrorist suspect to be waterboarded said yesterday that the harsh technique provided an intelligence breakthrough that “probably saved lives,” but that he now regards the tactic as torture.
Zayn Abidin Muhammed Hussein abu Zubaida, the first high-ranking al-Qaeda member captured after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, broke in less than a minute after he was subjected to the technique and began providing interrogators with information that led to the disruption of several planned attacks, said John Kiriakou, who served as a CIA interrogator in Pakistan.
I do not subscribe to the notion that waterboarding is torture but one of the big arguments from the left is that “studies show that it does not work, they will just tell you what you want to hear” well I always found that claim hard to swallow, they would be better off denying knowing anything than sending their torturers on wild goose chases that will inevitably bring them more wrath.
I find it amazing that this guy broke in less than a minute and gave info that disrupted several planned attacks and inevitably saved lives, so here is a technique that is not painful, at least not painful enough to deter a reporter from paying someone to perform the technique on him for a special report that he was doing, I do not know about you, but I am not going to pay someone to brake my bones so I can see what it is like to be tortured for a story!
The questioned that liberals need to ask here is, if this attack were to have been targeted at their families, and knowing that would they appose the use of that technique? I find it hard to imagine that they would!
View the video of the reporter getting his torture below:
