Al Qaeda - "Bin Laden IS dead"

[Cynical Ninja]

Defenders of the Bush administration’s interrogation policies have claimed vindication from reports that bin Laden was tracked down in small part due to information received from brutalized detainees some six to eight years ago.

But that sequence of events -- even if true -- doesn’t demonstrate the effectiveness of torture, these experts say. Rather, it indicates bin Laden could have been caught much earlier had those detainees been interrogated properly.

"I think that without a doubt, torture and enhanced interrogation techniques slowed down the hunt for bin Laden," said an Air Force interrogator who goes by the pseudonym Matthew Alexander and located Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, in 2006.

It now appears likely that several detainees had information about a key al Qaeda courier -- information that might have led authorities directly to bin Laden years ago. But subjected to physical and psychological brutality, "they gave us the bare minimum amount of information they could get away with to get the pain to stop, or to mislead us."

Yep, They probably would have got Bin Laden sooner if they HADN'T used "enhanced interrogation" otherwise known as torture. Information gleaned through torture is as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike. Anyone with a brain can see this.

That explains why dick can't see it.

No doubt he will be along directly to disagree with the testimony of a trained airforce interrogator.