re: #470 opnion

The CIA claims that waterboarding Khaled Sheik Mohamad produced intel that was used to thwart planned operations.

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.