New Senate Report Concludes Torture Not Used In Bin Laden Capture

Torture proponents, who use the euphemistic “enhanced interrogation” so they can deny actual “torture,” should pay attention to the Senate report about to be released. It concludes that waterboarding and other such techniques had nothing to do with finding Osama bin Laden.

The CIA still disputes that conclusion.

From the moment of bin Laden’s death almost three years ago in what was America’s biggest counterterrorism success, former Bush administration and some senior CIA officials have cited the evidence trail leading to the al-Qaida mastermind’s compound in Pakistan as vindicating the “enhanced interrogation techniques” they authorized after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

But Democratic and some Republican senators have disputed that account. They described simulated drownings, sleep deprivation and other such practices as cruel and ineffective. With the release edging closer for the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report on interrogations, renditions and detentions, they hope to make a persuasive case.

The report, congressional aides and outside experts said, examines the treatment of several high-level terror detainees and the information they provided on bin Laden. The aides and people briefed on the report spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the confidential document.

 

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.