Torture saved us from another attack(s)

[sniffa]

Excuse me, I mean enhanced interrogation tactics saved us from another attack(s).

We just can't know any details about the attack(s) and what was gleamed because it would jeopardize our national security AND blow our minds.

[baldguy]

1. What information did we lose b/c we tortured prisoners instead of interrogating them properly?

[EFerrari]

4. Abu Zubaydah stopped giving good information when they started

torturing him.

[ORDagnabbit]

2. 2002 attack on LA was prevented by torturing guy in 2003. hahahahaha yeah right

Waking up to torture truths
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-oped0423chapmanapr23,0,4882177.column

Steve Chapman
April 23, 2009

When the Russian dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote his epic, "The Gulag Archipelago," some Americans read it to measure the gulf between the brute savagery of communism and the principled standards of free, civilized nations. But apparently some Americans took it as a helpful how-to volume.

Where would CIA officers have gotten the idea to extract cooperation from detainees by keeping them awake for as long as 180 hours at a time, or more than a week? Maybe from the jailers in Solzhenitsyn's grim account, who used the method on a mass scale.

Enforced sleeplessness, he explained, was favored because it was cheap, easy and left no marks on the prisoner -- not to mention that it was effective. Solzhenitsyn attested from bitter experience that "it is not really necessary to use a rack or hot coals to drive a human being out of his mind." snip

The Bush administration claimed that the waterboarding of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed helped foil a planned 2002 attack on Los Angeles -- forgetting that he wasn't captured until 2003. Maybe we'll get a better answer if the administration grants Cheney his request that it declassify material supporting his case, as it should.

[sniffa]

8. I know that's the one the d-bags are referring too

but there's almost no info on what was gleamed from torture and what were the results. All I've seen is fantastical, terrorist attack to rival 9/11 thwarted. I could have missed more details and if I did how did torture help?

[Blue Meany]

3. But wait! Aren't those who are saying this giving out

classified information that could aid the enemy?

[leftstreet]

5. So then, the only way to get the Credit Card Execs to lower interest rates....

hmmm

[spanone]

6. i bet cheney has left a lot of questionable evidence behind and moles to leak it

[Blue Meany]

7. An earlier attack that planned to hit LA with airliners taking

off from Singapore was supposedly thwarted by torture-interrogations conducted in the Phillipines.

[Fleshdancer]

9. It kept Saddam Hussein from using his missing WMD on us!

It also lead authorities to Hoffa's missing body, it's the real reason behind "freedom" fries, and it prepared Sulley for the geese terrorist attack allowing him to land safely in the Hudson...but we're not suppose to know about that. Shhhhh.