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Enhanced Interrogations Led to Bin Laden Kill: Senator
CNBC ^ | May 03, 2011 | CNBC

Posted on 05/03/2011 12:46:59 AM PDT by CutePuppy

A member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee has told CNBC that the death of Osama Bin Laden was a direct result of enhanced interrogations.

"The information that eventually led us to this compound was the direct result of enhanced interrogations; one can conclude if we had not used enhanced interrogations, we would not have come to yesterday's action," US Senator Richard Burr in a telephone interview with CNBC.

As a member of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, Burr was briefed on the attack on the compound that led to Bin Laden's death and believes the failure of Pakistani security forces to find the al-Qaeda leader sooner will be a strain on US relations.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: binladen; burr; ciaprisons; ciasecretprisons; connectingthedots; connectthedots; courier; deathers; geronimo; interrogation; osama; osamabinladen; richardburr; secretprisons; waterboarding; wiretap; wiretapping
Thank you, President Bush and SecDef Donald Rumsfeld. Also, the electronic "spying" by the CIA / NSA enabled to intercepting of the call that the courier made in August of 2010, which eventually led to the killing of "Jeronimo".
1 posted on 05/03/2011 12:47:04 AM PDT by CutePuppy
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To: CutePuppy

In the end...it’s a little piece of 1-star commentary from some guy being interrogated that leads onto another piece of 1-star commentary....and then a bit of luck. This entire method of couriers is suspect now. Since no one trusts cellphones anymore....courier is the only method left and some big name guys back in Saudi Arabia who help to fund all this business...have to be worried about their future.


2 posted on 05/03/2011 12:54:31 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: CutePuppy

Rumsfeld said this wasn’t true.


3 posted on 05/03/2011 1:03:27 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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kind of sort of but not really. He said there was no water boarding in GITMO. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed spent three years in a prison outside of the US (Romania I think) before he was taken to GITMO. The red cross is on record as having accused us of torturing him during that time through water boarding and other harsh interrogation techniques.


4 posted on 05/03/2011 1:08:45 AM PDT by RC one (Donald Trump-I'm still listening)
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To: CutePuppy
1. 2002 - Gitmo detainees reveal courier
Obama called Gitmo "contrary to our values" and tried to close it

2. 2005 - Waterboarding reveals courier's name, contacts
Obama opposed waterboarding and "enhanced interrogation" techniques and pledged to ban them.

3. NSA wiretapping intercepted call with location of Bin Laden's lair
Obama criticized the use of NSA "warrantless wiretapping"

'Nuff said. Thank you President Bush!

5 posted on 05/03/2011 1:09:55 AM PDT by montag813 (http://www.facebook,com/StandWithArizona)
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To: pepsionice

Carrier pigeons?


6 posted on 05/03/2011 1:12:35 AM PDT by monocle
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To: CutePuppy

to read...


7 posted on 05/03/2011 1:58:43 AM PDT by Rick_Michael (Have no fear "President Government" is here)
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To: CutePuppy
Obama and the rest of the goofy left:

BAD - Waterboarding muslim terrorists

Leads to anti-America street demonstrations by leftists

GOOD - Killing muslim terrorists for Obama

Leads to pro-Obama street celebrations by leftists


8 posted on 05/03/2011 2:03:07 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. -- John Steinbeck)
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To: nickcarraway

Are you sure? Rumsfeld said we didn’t waterboard anybody at GITMO. There are other forms of enhanced interrogation that we could have used.


9 posted on 05/03/2011 5:03:34 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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Rumsfeld said we didn’t waterboard anybody at GITMO

He didn’t say we didn’t waterboard in Romania.


10 posted on 05/03/2011 6:40:29 AM PDT by Josephat
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To: Josephat

Exactly.


11 posted on 05/03/2011 6:46:41 AM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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Its seems to me that Obama opposed these techniques, and if he had had his way they never would have been used and Bin Laden would not have been killed.

Therefore Obama deserves no credit for the killing of Bin Laden.


12 posted on 05/03/2011 9:07:10 AM PDT by Cubs Fan (The biggest, most pernicious greed of all -- government greed)
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So switched over to the “rats” at MSNBC. Countessa is interviewing some guy who says that all the water boarding of KSM had nothing to do with any of this. That even though it was over 100 times, the info came from people that were lower on the totem pole. Amazing what you see on the “other” station.


13 posted on 05/03/2011 9:28:26 AM PDT by ohiogrammy (12)
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To: ConjunctionJunction; Josephat; nickcarraway; All
Information from the enemy combatant detainees in much maligned interrogations at much maligned CIA "secret prisons," and the use of much maligned NSA electronic surveillance have played the crucial role in finding and killing "Geronimo".

From Phone call by Kuwaiti courier led to bin Laden - Breitbart/AP, by Adam Goldman, 2011 May 02

Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti means Abu Ahmed born in Kuwait, of course, but it doesn't mean it made it easier to locate him.

Took a lot of time and connecting the dots, and the liberals' disclosure and negative hype about NSA electronic surveillance capabilities led to Osama insisting on using no phones or computer communications near him. It's only in August of 2010 when Ahmed had a phone conversion with someone who was monitored by U.S. intelligence, he was identified, located and and put under surveillance.

So Obama is taking credit for the timing of the events previous administration had no control of, but which set up all the personnel, logistics, processes and conditions to execute?

14 posted on 05/03/2011 11:48:43 AM PDT by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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It seems to me that Obama opposed these techniques, and if he had had his way they never would have been used and Bin Laden would not have been killed. Therefore Obama deserves no credit for the killing of Bin Laden.

As FReeper Lancelot Jones pointed out in his excellent post on another thread Bin Laden Death Will Not Boost Obama: Expert, #37, he kind of does deserve a "credit," in a negative sort of way:

That's the sort of negative credit, backhanded praise that I would like see conservative / Republican politicians adopt and use more often, especially dealing with the media. The style makes the point(s) well and is difficult to criticize, and Rummy and Condi Rice were experts at this. Watching many Republicans or conservatives speaking publicly is often impossible without cringing.

15 posted on 05/03/2011 12:14:35 PM PDT by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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