The CIA Reportedly Lied About How We Got Bin Laden [Enhanced Interrogation Didn't Do It]

Business Insider ^ | 12/10/2014 | Ken Dilanian

[CodeToad]

Delta had OBL in their sights multiple times and were told not to take the shot. I have no doubt we knew where OBL was at all times.

[moehoward]

I was thinking more along the lines of some fabricated “bugging”. Why would the DOJ alert her about alleged CIA concerns of illegality with Senate investigations, and why would the CIA alert her they had snooped the investigators computers. Seems clear ‘someone’ wanted her PO’d enough to release it.

[SoFloFreeper]

...the CIA's story...is just not true, the Senate report on CIA interrogations concludes...

I trust the Demon Rats in the Senate not one bit.

[KeyLargo]

And the media ignores the biggest CIA operation under Democrat President Lyndon Johnson.

Phoenix was a program headed by the CIA, in conjunction with US Special Forces and Australian and South Vietnamese commandos, during the Vietnam War. Its purpose was simple: assassination. And although this was a military unit, their targets weren’t military, but civilian.

From 1965 to 1972, Phoenix was involved in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of thousands upon thousands of citizens. People deemed critical to the infrastructure of the Viet Cong, or thought to have knowledge of VC activities, were rounded up and taken to regional interrogation centers, were they were subjected to: “rape, gang rape, rape using eels, snakes, or hard objects, and rape followed by murder; electric shock . . . rendered by attaching wires to the genitals or other sensitive parts of the body, like the tongue; the ‘water treatment’; the ‘airplane’ in which the prisoner’s arms were tied behind the back, and the rope looped over a hook on the ceiling, suspending the prisoner in midair, after which he or she was beaten; beatings with rubber hoses and whips; the use of police dogs to maul prisoners…”

http://listverse.com/2013/05/25/10-dirty-secret-cia-operations/

[magellan]

Who to believe?

Intelligence is like a jigsaw puzzle. You need a large number of pieces to start to see the picture, but even the smallest piece may be the key.

It is very likely intelligence gathered from both standard and enhanced interrogation was required to get enough pieces to figure out the Where is Bin Laden puzzle.

We know Abu Zubaydah and KSM gave up nothing under standard interrogation. We know they gave up significant information under enhanced interrogation. But was the information new and relevant, or irrelevant or duplicative?

A reasonable person would assume such high level people would have useful information that others would not have. But reasonable people are hard to find nowadays.