(Outgoing) CIA director defends interrogations

[sabra]

Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

McLEAN, Va. -- CIA Director Michael V. Hayden yesterday applauded the debate over the agency's past use of harsh interrogation techniques, but stressed that those methods -- including the use of waterboarding -- had produced valuable results.

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Still, Mr. Hayden contended that America is safer because the interrogations -- conducted at the behest of the Bush administration, with the blessing of Justice Department legal counsel -- produced results.

"You can't say it didn't work. These tactics worked," Mr. Hayden said. "Was it worth it? Half of our knowledge of al-Qaida … came from CIA detainees.

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And, he said, Osama bin Laden has not been brought to justice for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. "We have not killed or captured him. That is a disappointment, rather than a regret," he said.

His greatest pride, he said, is that the agency is largely responsible for al-Qaida's failure to launch a major terrorist strike on U.S. soil since Sept. 11.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09016/942216-84.stm

[liberal N proud]

1. These bastards just need to be locked up

See how they like incarceration let alone torture

[Solly Mack]

2. The lies people tell themselves and others

Sadly :(

I'm not built for this world...

[Piewhacket]

3. Half your knowledge came from tortured detainees? WTF!

If that's half of what you know then after 7 years
you're telling us you still know NOTHING at all!

The US relied on you for intelligence, halfwit. It was your job!
For god sake why shouldn't you just be tried for war crimes and
gross command incompetence tantamount to desertion of your post
in the face of the enemy.

God damn these people! Arrest them, try them, hang them!

[kimmylavin]

4. I'm hearing this a lot...

"His greatest pride, he said, is that the agency is largely responsible for al-Qaida's failure to launch a major terrorist strike on U.S. soil since Sept. 11."

One of my apologist friends said something like this to me.
And I responded, "So... just the one, then? A great accomplishment of this administration is that there was ONLY one major, devastating terrorist attack on their watch?"

Where do you come up with logic like this?

[DCKit]

5. Dee, Dee, Dee.

But are they "Happy Delusional" or just "Delusional"? Just as "Fun Crazy" makes you the life of the party with lots of friends, "Scary Crazy" is a danger to society and will get you locked up.

I'm thinking plain, old "Delusional".