Posted on 04/21/2009 11:16:10 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
CIA Confirms: Waterboarding 9/11 Mastermind Led to Info that Aborted 9/11-Style Attack on Los Angeles Tuesday, April 21, 2009 By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief
(CNSNews.com) - The Central Intelligence Agency told CNSNews.com today that it stands by the assertion made in a May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that the use of “enhanced techniques” of interrogation on al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) -- including the use of waterboarding -- caused KSM to reveal information that allowed the U.S. government to thwart a planned attack on Los Angeles.
Before he was waterboarded, when KSM was asked about planned attacks on the United States, he ominously told his CIA interrogators, “Soon, you will know.”
According to the previously classified May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that was released by President Barack Obama last week, the thwarted attack -- which KSM called the “Second Wave”-- planned “ ‘to use East Asian operatives to crash a hijacked airliner into’ a building in Los Angeles.”
KSM was the mastermind of the first “hijacked-airliner” attacks on the United States, which struck the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Northern Virginia on Sept. 11, 2001.
After KSM was captured by the United States, he was not initially cooperative with CIA interrogators. Nor was another top al Qaeda leader named Zubaydah. KSM, Zubaydah, and a third terrorist named Nashiri were the only three persons ever subjected to waterboarding by the CIA. (Additional terrorist detainees were subjected to other “enhanced techniques” that included slapping, sleep deprivation, dietary limitations, and temporary confinement to small spaces -- but not to water-boarding.)
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/sarc
After we get hit again, Bambi will read this headline and weep. Maybe.
If it helps the Economy Obama wants to Stop doing IT.
If it helps save Los Angeles Obama wants to stop doing it.
WHAT KIND OF PRESIDENT DO WE HAVE ?
Los Angeles, huh - hardly a right wing enclave. The terrorists don’t distinguish between their sympathizers or their enemies - we’re all American enemies to them. Wonder when the rabid nutjobs will finally realize that?
Note to Obama: Waterboarding saves lives!
“Doesn’t matter. According to Dear Leader, we must impress, Code Pink and other lefties of our nobility as well.
This explains why the Obama Administration wouldn’t declassify the memos showing the value of the intelligence extracted from jihadist detainees. Cheney was absolutely right to raise the issue.
We have another Castro wannabe.
“Before they were subjected to “enhanced techniques” of interrogation that included waterboarding, KSM and Zubaydah were not only uncooperative but also appeared contemptuous of the will of the American people to defend themselves.”
I leave it up to the rest of you to figure out how impressed future captured terrorists will be with the techniques that will be permitted by TOTUS zerO, Axelrod, Rahmbo, and Napoleantano. Perhaps having to listen to Barry’s speeches endlessly on an ipod .....
The List, ping
The 9/11 hijacking scheme worked because the default assumption was that a hijacking meant "these clowns want a free ride to Cuba and a media soapbox". The rational response was therefore to sit tight and wait it out. This assumption broke down after the attacks -- indeed, it broke down during the attacks in the case of Flight 93 -- and is now inoperative for the foreseeable future. Terrorists are not going to try the same trick again, because it's a trick that only works once, and everybody knows it.
this may be the beginning of a very bad trend for the O-man. Employees of The Company have shown a penchant for back-biting Press leaks whenever they are unhappy with their Commander in Chief (and judging from those photos at Langley yesterday, they are pretty darn unhappy)
doesn’t matter. we must be prepared for the showtrials to begin just at the time Obama needs a diversion or a distraction
But John McCain said torture doesn’t work. He knows this because it didn’t work on him. I guess it only works if you actually know something.
After we get hit again, Bambi will read this headline and weep. Maybe
I doubt it....He’s to self centered and naive.....He’ll give a speech and the media will say it was in the tradition of: Lincoln/Roosevelt/Truman/Reagan/fill in the blank......
Do they really not use drugs for interrogations?
MARINE BUMP!
Los Angeles, huh - hardly a right wing enclave. The terrorists don’t distinguish between their sympathizers or their enemies - we’re all American enemies to them.
Nope
He'll go into his private toilet, clench his fist and say (quietly) "Yes! Now I have another crisis to take advantage of!"
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