"I’m told there was some confusion today on some programs … suggesting that I indicated that no one who was waterboarded at Guantanamo provided any information on this. That’s just not true. What I said was no one was waterboarded at Guantanamo by the U.S. military … Three people were waterboarded by the CIA … and then later brought to Guantanamo. In fact, as you point out, the information that came from those individuals was critically important," – Donald Rumsfeld, reversing himself from a previous statement.
The torture of KSM and al-Libi gave the US false information on this story, as even the torture advocates have conceded. They now argue that torture works because it gives false information. Which is what we call creative reasoning.
Or, rather, the rationalization of war crimes for which Rumsfeld, in a country run by the rule of law, should be prosecuted, not respectfully quoted.
The Dish 