Rumsfeld: Waterboarding Didn’t Reveal Bin Laden Location

[Turborama]

Source: Talk Radio News Service

Tuesday, May 3, 2011 At 12:28PM | Justin Duckham

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is claiming the information that tipped the U.S. off to terrorist leader Osama bin Laden’s location was not collected through the controversial enhanced interrogation technique known as waterboarding.

“It is true that some information that came from normal interrogation approaches at Guantanamo did lead to information that was beneficial in this instance,” Rumsfeld said during an interview with the conservative magazine Newsmax. “But it was not harsh treatment and it was not waterboarding.”

Bin Laden’s location was reportedly revealed by tracking the terrorist leader’s top courier, whose identity was revealed by al Qaeda official Khald Sheik Mohammed. Rumsfeld’s statement counters speculation from a number of conservative commentators and lawmakers that Mohammed may have revealed the identity following the enhanced interrogation technique, a development that many claimed would justify the use of the controversial method.

Rumsfeld joins a cast of others who have shed doubt on the role waterboarding may have played in the investigation. When asked during an interview on MSNBC Tuesday morning if waterboarding directly lead to bin Laden, Obama’s top counterterrorism advisor John Brennan responded “not to my knowledge.” In addition, an Associated Press story that cites former CIA officials attributes the bin Laden information to standard interrogation perfrormed months after Mohammed was subjected to the technique.

Mohammed, a Guantanamo Bay detainee, was reportedly waterboarded 183 times.

Read more: http://www.talkradionews.com/topstories/2011/5/3/rumsfeld-waterboarding-didnt-reveal-bin-laden-location.html

[MyrnaLoy]

1. I guess

even a turd can have a little shine to it.

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[Jack Sprat]

3. Hades fire.

Don't destroy the only thing the rightwing nuts have to hold on to at this point. I've been busy today shooting down their 'bush deserves the credit' theories, reminding them of the Aug 6 2001 memo brief given to him by the CIA. Remember "Bin Laden Determined to Strike U.S.? If the wingnuts can't hang their hat on torture, they have nothing to be happy about. You have to remember that they just lost their bell cow in Usama. This has devastated them. El Rusho has been wearing a black veil this week and dabbing his eyes with a lace doily. Poor old Sarah Belle cannot even say the President's name without tearing up. As for Beck, he is rolling around in his own defacation and howling at passing flies.

[freshwest]

4. Thanks for the report. This bout of comeuppance is going to last a while.

[Turborama]

6. " he is rolling around in his own defacation and howling at passing flies"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Amonester]

10. LOL - so true!

Bookmarking for keepers!

[nonperson]

5. "controversial enhanced interrogation technique known as waterboarding"

Just one small point. Waterboarding is not an "enhanced interrogation technique".

Waterboarding is torture. Waterboarding is illegal. War criminals and our media repeating the above phrase does not change that fact.

[pmorlan1]

7. Thank you

Thank you for posting this. I hope everyone will post a link to this story on their blogs, facebook pages and Twitter. We need to spread this news just as quickly as the false story that torture helped to catch Bin Laden.

[marasinghe]

8. more & more, i am inclined to think that this clown is the curly joe -

of the three sociopathic stooges of the bush league White House, george, dick & donald. every thing he's ever said in public is so fucking stupid & he so fucking believes his own shit-spout, he's like a replica ayatollah minor prophet of the PNACkers.

i was wondering why Jon Stewart tolerated this mindless bottom-feeder pushing his new book, on The Daily Show. it strikes me now that, Jon was just doing his boy scout thing & performing his 'being kind to mindless mass-murdering morons' mitzvah for the year, by letting this cretin breathe some free air on Jon's show.

[Phlem]

9. friggin every man for himself

at this point.

Screw Bush!

I got needs!!! :rofl:

-p

[live love laugh]

11. What hole did he crawl out of? nt

[jmowreader]

12. He's right.

Torturing prisoners didn't reveal bin Laden's location. The use of intelligence techniques that actually work revealed bin Laden's location.

[IcyPeas]

13. tell fox news that. they are saying the opposite.

[Turborama]

14. What's the percentage of the population who watch Faux? 2%? 3%?

Faux viewers are a lost cause. They'd probably throw Rumsfeld under the bus and call him senile or something.

[lunatica]

15. Someone please check to see if Hell has frozen over

Rumsfeld telling the truth?! I'm getting the vapors...

[jillan]

16. He flip flopped last nite on faux.

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/05/04/rumsfeld-flip-flops-on-torture-bin-laden/

[Alamuti Lotus]

17. the official narrative(s) is strikingly real-time revisionist bullshit

doubling back on itself every few minutes.. astonishing and revolting, but well-received in these parts.