re: #137 drcordell

We used it on MORE than 3 individuals. And just because they gave up information after being waterboarded is NOT evidence that waterboarding was any more effective than other, non-torture interrogation techniques. See post-hoc fallacy.

Bullshit.

You haven’t read the redacted inspector general’s report on interrogation techniques.

I have.

The IG states clearly and unambiguously that, in the case of KSM, that waterboarding was the only technique that secured full cooperation and that the information he then provided resulted in a “cascade” of intelligence that compromised several operations by AQ that were in progress.

I am fine with people who have moral qualms with waterbaording. But it has proven effective in the case of KSM and the 2 others in the IG report. The IG report refutes the claim “there are equally effective techniques” and “it only leads to bad intelligence”. The report does say that the same info might have come from these individuals over time using other techniques.