Just read an artilce on Christain science monitor...says they got the info from Mohammed AFTER the waterboarding stopped when they promised him cookies and milk and a rack of lamb.
Do you have a link to this?
That could be true. He told them so that they wouldn’t waterboard him again. He liked the cookies and lamb better than being waterboarded.
Either way, the harsh tactics worked.
But one cannot discount the fact that he WAS waterboarded. Once the subject breaks, then yes, the info comes out without the need for further extraordinary measures. Perhaps the specific bit of intelligence did not come directly out of a boarding session but you cannot extrapolate that it would have come if the boarding had never been used.
That's the Diane Feinstein line. ...that KSM so vigorously denied that al-Kuwaiti (the courier) had any significance, that the interrogators figured the opposite was true.
Don't know which side it is, but somebody is lying desperately about what happened in the interrogations.
The thing that does not ring true about the Feinstein line is that KSM would have had to be a lousy liar for her scenario to make sense. And everything we have learned about KSM points to his being an accomplished and disciplined liar with ice in his veins.