Op-Ed Contributor: What Torture Never Told Us

The newly released C.I.A. memos confirm that harsh interrogation was pointless at best.
It is surprising, as the eighth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, that none of Al Qaeda’s top leadership is in our custody. One damaging consequence of the harsh interrogation program was that the expert interrogators whose skills were deemed unnecessary to the new methods were forced out. Full Story »

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Member Tags: classification of information, Central Intelligence Agency, AL QAEDA, Federal Bureau of Investigation, khalid mohammed, Jose Padilla, abd nashiri, walid attash, abu zubaydah, am update, interrogations, detainees
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Posted by: Posted by Lynn Caporale - Sep 5, 2009 - 10:32 PM PDT
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Edited by: Lynn Caporale - Sep 6, 2009 - 1:53 PM PDT

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