Former Senior Military Interrogator Rebukes Cheney for Torture Speech

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Run time: 03:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfYov5o5_2s   Posted on YouTube: May 25, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 26, 2009 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 1158

 
Dick Cheney says that torturing detainees has saved American lives. That claim is patently false. Cheney's torture policy was directly responsible for the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of American servicemen and women.

Matthew Alexander was the senior military interrogator for the task force that tracked down Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq and, at the time, a higher priority target than Osama bin Laden. Mr. Alexander has personally conducted hundreds of interrogations and supervised over a thousand of them.

"Torture does not save lives. Torture costs us lives," Mr. Alexander said in an exclusive interview at Brave New Studios. "And the reason why is that our enemies use it, number one, as a recruiting tool...These same foreign fighters who came to Iraq to fight because of torture and abuse....literally cost us hundreds if not thousands of American lives."

As Ryan Grim at the Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/26/former-interrogator-rebuk_n_207483.html">reported "Alexander easily takes down Cheney's arguments...The video is at once an effective rebuke of the former vice president and a sign of how the changing media landscape can flatten the field of political debate."

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