MSNBC: Ron Suskind - Torture Was Used To Link Saddam Hussein To September 11th

[Turborama]

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How Bush's Torture Helped al-Qaeda

By Robert Parry
April 23, 2009

Captured al-Qaeda operatives, facing the threat or reality of torture, appear to have fed the Bush administration’s obsession about Iraq, buying Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders time to rebuild their organization inside nuclear-armed Pakistan.

Even now, as al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies expand their power ever closer to Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad, ex-Bush administration officials continue to insist they protected U.S. security by repeatedly waterboarding the likes of 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and terrifying others, such as Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, with “extraordinary renditions” to foreign countries known to torture.

However, the emerging evidence, including recently released Justice Department memos, suggests that the “high-value detainees” may have helped divert U.S. focus away from their al-Qaeda colleagues by providing tantalizing misinformation about Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and dropping tidbits about Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who operated inside Iraq.

http://luxmedia.vo.llnwd.net/o10/clients/aclu/olc_05302005_bradbury.pdf">The May 30, 2005, memo by Steven Bradbury, then acting head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, also appears to have exaggerated the value of intelligence extracted from detainee Abu Zubaydah through harsh interrogations – references that Bush administration defenders have cited as justification for abusive tactics, including the near-drowning of waterboarding.

Continues: http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/042209.html

[drgonzosghost]

1. And *BOOM* Goes the Dynamite!

I was hoping that this would come out! For years the neocons have been blaming "intelligence failures" for them being flat wrong (i.e. lying)on Iraq. Does torture work, folks? Will the rest of the American public add two an two, or do you think they'll be distracted by another "accidental" Paris Hilton upskirt?

[Hope And Change]

2. I gave the 5th rec and off it goes to the greatest page.Thanks for posting!

[Turborama]

4. Right back atcha, H&C

The sinking of Cheney/Busch's house built on sand is picking up pace...

[Titonwan]

3. For anyone who helped in anyway, thank you.

Looks like the ball is finally rolling on investigating Bush/Cheney Crime Inc. and if you wrote letters, emailed, called or any other way helped to get us here, You have my heartfelt gratitude and best wishes. We CAN make a difference! Thanks again and I'm very proud of you all.