re: #486 ~Fianna

The problem with that argument is that it’s hard to prove a negative. In this case it’s likely that it helped, but we’ll never be able to say if we could have obtained that information another way.

Considering the time when that came out, the CIA also had a vested interest in finding something to justify torture.

Look if you just discount the source because it is inconvenient to your arguement, this goes nowhwere. This cretin was a planner of 9/11 & the CIA got him to talk.
I do admire your ideals, but this not an academic exercise.
I can’t help noticing that since we appear to now be safe, people are only now getting fussy about how we were kept safe.