Posted on 05/04/2011 9:23:23 AM PDT by drzz
A former head of counterterrorism at the CIA, who was investigated last year by the Justice Department for the destruction of videos showing senior al-Qaeda officials being interrogated, says the harsh questioning of terrorism suspects produced the information that eventually led to Osama bin Ladens death.
Jose Rodriguez ran the CIAs Counterterrorism Center from 2002 to 2005, the period when top al-Qaeda leaders Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM) and Abu Faraj al-Libbi were taken into custody and subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs) at secret prisons overseas. KSM was subjected to waterboarding, sleep deprivation and other techniques. Al-Libbi was not waterboarded, but other EITs were used on him. Information provided by KSM and Abu Faraj al-Libbi about bin Ladens courier was the lead information that eventually led to the location of [bin Ladens] compound and the operation that led to his death, Rodriguez tells TIME in his first public interview. Rodriguez was cleared of charges in the video-destruction investigation last year.
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“Try to tell them that we may have lost WWII or at least the out come much worse if we didnt interrogate for information on how to read the Enigma machine”
I would sure like to hear about US involvement, using enhanced interrogation techniques, to learn how to read the Enigma machine.
I thought the Brits did it, at Bletchley Park, using early computers and math.
This was the most significant success of interrogations there were others such as Paton was almost caught heading operation Operation Torch. Interrogations saved him in France
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