OBAMA OFFICIAL: Bin Laden Intelligence NOT The Result Of Waterboarding

[deminks]

http://www.businessinsider.com/bin-laden-death-torture-waterboarding-obama-2011-5

Deputy National Security Advisor John Brennan appeared on Morning Joe this morning and countered the claim that has been widely spread since Osama Bin Laden's death on Sunday: namely that waterboarding resulted in intelligence that lead U.S. forces straight to Osama's door.

It was a claim that was repeated earlier this morning by Rudy Giuliani, who told the Morning Joe crew that Bin Laden's capture justified the controversial interrogation techniques approved and that people would probably be very uncomfortable if they knew what had gone into getting this intelligence.

Not so, says Brennan. When directly asked by Mika whether waterboarding was involved he responded:

Not to my knowledge. The information that was collected over the course of nine years or so came from many different sources: human sources, technical sources, as well as sources that detainees provided. It was something as a result of the painstaking work that the analysts did. They pieced it all together that lead us to the compound last year and resulted in the very successful operation Sunday.

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Bush wasn't interested in finding him. The torture was not used to find him. The torture was used to create a link to Iraq. Iraq was what Bush was interested in from the start.