Sunday, March 29, 2009

Detainee's Harsh Treatment Foiled No Plots

or
You Can't Squeeze Intelligence From A Turnip

The Washington Post reports that torturing Abu Zubaida got no real leads and wasted a lot of time and money chasing down red herrings.

The methods succeeded in breaking him, and the stories he told of al-Qaeda terrorism plots sent CIA officers around the globe chasing leads.

In the end, though, not a single significant plot was foiled as a result of Abu Zubaida's tortured confessions, according to former senior government officials who closely followed the interrogations.
But it was just so much danged fun.

2 comments:

  1. Well slap me and call me Sally... wait, isn't that what they do?

    DUH!!!

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  2. If the nice CIA officers put some electric wires on my balls, I would gladly tell them the moon was blue. If that is what they wanted to hear.

    This is F*cking rediculous.The top people have drugs that will extract anything worth value without a fight.
    This is a ball & pony show for us mortals.
    Assholes.

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