Detainee's Harsh Treatment Foiled No Plots

Washington Post by Peter Finn, Joby Warrick | Mar. 29, 2009 (News Report)

When CIA officials subjected their first high-value captive, Abu Zubaida, to waterboarding and other harsh interrogation methods, they were convinced that they had in their custody an al-Qaeda leader who knew details of operations yet to be unleashed, and they were facing increasing pressure from the White House to get those secrets out of him.

The methods succeeded in breaking him, and the stories he told of al-Qaeda terrorism plots sent CIA ... Full Story »

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Subjects: World, U.S., Politics
Topics: Torture, Bush Administration, National Security
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Posted by: Posted by Leo Romero - Mar 29, 2009 - 7:52 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Leo Romero (review), Brian Bucknam (review)
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Edited by: Leo Romero - Mar 29, 2009 - 7:52 AM PDT

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 by Leo Romero - Mar. 29, 2009
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 by Brian Bucknam - Mar. 31, 2009

Seems like a fair assessment of how effective torture has been, at least with one suspect.

Is anyone other than Dick Cheney really surprised that torture doesn't work?

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