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MasterShake69 -> RE: CIA 'no longer' using secret prisons: director (4/9/2009 9:16:45 PM)
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from the info i have heard over the past 8 years...waterboardering only occurred 3 times to extract info from terrorists to stop terror attacks.
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/bush-vetoes-torture-ban-law-saying-it-ties-cia-hands_10025493.html
CIA director Michael Hayden has admitted to Congress that the agency used the technique to get information from three top Al Qaeda operatives, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attacks who was captured in Pakistan in 2003. Congress previously banned waterboarding and other harsh tactics, but the Bush administration said the law did not apply to intelligence agencies. The top US law enforcement official, Attorney General Michael Mukasey, has refused to tell the Senate whether he believed waterboarding was legal or not. Lawmakers based the content of the bill on the contents of the US Army’s handbook for interrogation techniques, which expressly prohibits mock drowning and other use of force. Bush approved techniques other than those allowed in the Army Field Manual in an executive order last July. Bush said the CIA programme to question terrorist leaders and operatives had produced “critical intelligence that has helped us prevent a number of attacks”. He cited the foiling of several attacks, including plots to attack a US Marine camp in Djibouti and the US consulate in Karachi, and plans to crash passenger planes into Library Tower in Los Angeles and Heathrow Airport or buildings in downtown London. “Were it not for this programme, our intelligence community believes that Al Qaeda and its allies would have succeeded in launching another attack against the American homeland,” Bush said.
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