Saturday, April 3, 2010

Head of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service: No Loss of Intelligence Since We Stopped Waterboarding


Two stories this week prove once again that torture is unnecessary and counter-productive for obtaining intelligence.

First, according to the Washington Post, the CIA's top spy - Michael Sulick, head of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service - said :

The spy agency has seen no fall-off in intelligence since waterboarding was banned by the Obama administration. "I don’t think we’ve suffered at all from an intelligence standpoint."
Second, after repeatedly torturing a supposed "senior Al Qaeda" leader and key player in 9/11, the government now admits that he had no knowledge or role in 9/11, and wasn't even affiliated with Al Qaeda.

Real men don't torture.

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1 comment:

  1. StegielApril 12, 2010 at 7:26 PM

    The question to be asked is did they learn new things about torture by torturing? Another is did this torture demonstrate that psychological terror within the ranks of the USA is effective as a tool to make men brutal? Obviously torture was not intended for actionable information.
    So then we must unveil the true reason for torture. Of course, since 9/11, Americans have lived in psychological terror anyhow, thanks to PNAC.

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