Ever since Obama released (leaked) the classified CIA documents outlining and chronicling “enhanced interrogation” techniques used on top terrorist suspects, the left has been reacting with shock and disapproval. They don’t mind the fact that America has been kept safe since the 9/11 attacks, but they don’t want to accept the fact that “enhanced interrogation” techniques are responsible for said safety. Ideally, the CIA would have just asked the terrorists nicely if they were planning any new attacks against the US. Ideally the terrorists would have been more than happy to have that conversation and explain their plans in full. Realistically, however, these terrorists are trained and radicalized to the point of accepting their own death before giving up such information.
Here’s one for the books. The CIA has recently confirmed that reports of a 9/11 style attack against a building in L.A. How did they come across this information? Through an “enhanced interrogation” technique commonly referred to as waterboarding. The room just went quiet, I know, but here’s what happened.
A previously classified memo from May 20, 2005 confirms that an attacked dubbed “The Second Wave” was thwarted by the CIA after waterboarding top al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammad. The report goes on to describe how Mohammad was not cooperative at first. CIA documentation on waterboarding taken from an August 2, 2004 memo states that “The ‘waterboard,’ which is the most intense of the CIA interrogation techniques, is subject to additional limits. It may be used on a High Value Detainee only if the CIA has ‘credible intelligence that a terrorist attack is imminent’; ‘substantial and credible indicators that the subject has actionable intelligence that can prevent, disrupt or deny this attack’; and ‘[o]ther interrogation methods have failed to elicit this information within the perceived time limit for preventing the attack.’” (more…)
