RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events Bush threatens to veto anti-torture bill

There are plenty of CIA operatives and officials who say otherwise, that "enhanced interrogation" yielded vital information that led to finding and taking out Bin Ladin.

And every account I've seen says that waterboarding and enhanced interrogation was used on exactly three Al Qaida prisoners, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammad.
THREE!
So all the hoopla is about nothing, it's not like every Islamic prisoner is given that treatment. At the height of license, it was still very selectively used.

And the enhanced interrogation uses mild things like sleep deprivation and waterboarding, which in fact are intimidation techniques, not actual torture. They're psychological breakdown measures, and can't be compared to using electricity applied to the jaw or testicles (as has been done to U.S. POW's by our enemies) or breaking bones (which has been done to U.S. POW's) or ripping out fingernails (as has been done to U.S. POW's).
In fact, we aren't doing any more to prisoners with waterboarding and sleep deprivation than we subject U.S. Marines to in basic training, as preparation for what they will endure if captured.

And up until the Democrat/Left revealed these techniques, we never needed to torture prisoners. Al Qaida prisoners talked because they didn't know what they were facing in interrogation, and were compelled to disclose because of what MIGHT be done to them, the unknown threat, rather than what was actually done to them. But now these prisoners basically have the manual on what they will be subjected to (again: Thank you, treasonous Democrats!) and no longer have fear of being interrogated. Democrats and the liberal media have handed them our playbook.

In all the interviews I've seen of CIA, they have to jump through a lot of legal hoops, and briefed congress Democrats 30 times during the period in question. It is Democrats, not the CIA who are lying. On the occasions where agents crossed the line, it was their own agents, not external investigators, who reported the violations. The CIA burned records to protect the identity and confidentiality of their agents and informants, to protect them from being outed for political reasons at a later date by Democrats. Exactly what is occurring right now, By Sen. Diane Feinstein and other Senate Democrats!