“Listen, waterboarding and/or other coercive techniques did nothing to contribute to our attempts to track down OBL (Osama bin Laden). What did succeed was weeks, months and years of diligent, laborious, and dedicated work – all within the bounds of legal and ethical boundaries … No torture, no waterboarding, no coercion – nothing inhumane – is considered a useful tool in our work…
I cannot even count the amount of times that I personally have come face to face with detainees, who told me they were primarily motivated to do what they did, because of hearing that we committed torture.
Even the rumor of torture is enough to convince an army of uneducated and illiterate, yet religiously motivated young boys to strap bombs to their chests and blow themselves up while killing whoever happens to be around – police, soldiers, civilians, women, or children. Torture committed by Americans in the past continues to kill Americans today," – a senior US interrogator in Afghanistan.
Think about this for a minute. Dick Cheney, having presided over the mass murder of 3,000 Americans, launched a war on false pretenses, and failed to capture Osama bin Laden is now prepared to put even more American lives at risk in order to save his war criminal skin. Shameless doesn't capture his mentality.
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