Dan Foster
Panetta: Actually, enhanced interrogation did help us get Bin Laden
In an oblique admission that enhanced interrogation worked in at least one important instance, Outgoing Secretary of Defense and former CIA director Leon Panetta said on CNN’s State of the Union that part of the “puzzle of intelligence . . . that led us to bin Laden. . . came from some of the tactics that were used at that time, interrogation tactics.” Panetta then added, “But the fact is we put together most of that intelligence without having to resort to that.”
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That was obvious from the get go. No one has the low down bout the crazy muzzies than I. It would obviously take extraordinary tactics to get info bout their secrets.
tommy71 on February 3, 2013 at 1:45 PM
Captain Obvious.
John the Libertarian on February 3, 2013 at 1:57 PM
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! – Every liberal, ever.
thebrokenrattle on February 3, 2013 at 2:00 PM
Evil people can be made to talk, news at 11. Of course it’s news only for cowards and people living in fairy-floss land.
MelonCollie on February 3, 2013 at 2:01 PM
Troll free thread.
Chuck Schick on February 3, 2013 at 2:02 PM
Oh my.
Kataklysmic on February 3, 2013 at 2:05 PM
This made me giggle.
ButterflyDragon on February 3, 2013 at 2:23 PM
Maverick says it doesn’t work.
Of course he was never actually subjected to it, he spoke freely and of his own volition according to the KGB/NKD.
CorporatePiggy on February 3, 2013 at 2:27 PM
We as a nation should be above torture. Dead Americans are just not as important as sending the message that we abhor all that rough stuff.
arnold ziffel on February 3, 2013 at 3:11 PM
Of course it did and of course it works. The denial of the obvious makes some look foolish.
CW on February 3, 2013 at 3:55 PM
Yes we should use drones to kill them instead. Oh so much more humane.
CW on February 3, 2013 at 4:00 PM
You want trolls? Check out Althouse’s thread on this story.
Del Dolemonte on February 3, 2013 at 5:10 PM