If waterboarding led us to Bin lauden why didn't bush pick him up?

[Maraya1969]

Why did it take 7(?) years to get to him?

They either should admit that the real intelligence used to get bin Laudin was not gotten by torture or admit that they suck so much that even with it they couldn't catch their own asses with both hands and a flashlight.

[dairydog91]

1. I'm not going to cheer waterboarding.

But the obvious answer is: We were waterboarding the wrong guy. Apparently a lot of the info about the courier (Who was tracked to bin Laden's home) came from Guantanamo, and God only knows how that info was extracted.

[Johonny]

4. well since several agencies have written reports on where the good info

came from I think more than god knows. Time and time again our intelligence agencies have told the American people and our government torture did not produce good actionable information and our best information was obtained by agents using traditional interrogation techniques. Only idiots that are wrong about everything like Dick Cheney claimed that good intelligence came from our torturing episodes.

[Drale]

5. Dick Cheney just likes torturing people because

he is a sadist and gets off hurting people.

[Drale]

2. As far as I can tell

Thats a lie made up by Fox. It seems that the information about Bin Laden came from inside Pakistan.

[dairydog91]

3. It was probably from all over.

First tidbits on the courier were from CIA?
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/05/02/aide_who_led_to_bin_laden_was_kuwaiti_born_courier/?rss_id=Boston.com+%2F+Boston+Globe+--+National+News

So NYT says it was Gitmo, while AP is claiming it was the CIA at secret prisons.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42853221/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/

[Justitia]

6. Brian Williams just repeated this on Letterman - that tip came from interrogation. -eom

[Maraya1969]

9. Well that just sucks that he said that because now Fox is complaining that Obama stopped

torturing. Now we are going to have this great big tea party torturers group form.

I claim that name - The Tea Party Torturers but everyone can use it!

[gratuitous]

7. Oh, you know how self-effacing Bush is

He wanted to share the glory with his successor.

[seabeyond]

8. i heard they only got an alias from bush time. they had no other info. also remember, 2006? they

closed up the department that was searching for osama