Obama Advisor: Waterboarding Didn’t Lead to Bin Laden Kill

[Hissyspit]

Source: MSNBC / Raw Story

Obama advisor: Waterboarding didn’t lead to bin Laden kill

Posted on 05.3.11
By David Edwards
Categories: Nation

White House deputy national security advisor John Brennan Tuesday knocked down the myth that waterboarding provided crucial intelligence that led to the location of Osama bin Laden.

“So we’ve been talking about the different details and methods that lead up to this moment, and obviously there is word out today that waterboarding played a very big role or role in actually getting the information,” MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski told Brennan. “Is that the case?” “Not to my knowledge,” Brennan explained.

“The information that was acquired over the course of nine years or so came from many different sources, human sources, technical sources, as well as information that detainees provided, and it was something that as a result of the painstaking work that the analysts did, they pieced it all together that led us to the Abbottabad compound and led us to the successful operation on sunday,” he added.

Fox News’ Fox Nation website claimed Tuesday that waterboarding led to the death of bin Laden.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/05/obama-advisor-waterboarding-didnt-lead-to-bin-laden-kill

[Brianboru]

1. Bullet in head -good. Splash with water - bad.

Methinks the values are a bit off here.

[Melinda]

2. False equivalency = fail

Our values are fine... yours? NSM. Enjoy your stay.

[Gormy Cuss]

3. Splash in the water? Please, let someone waterboard you

and get back to us on that.

[grahamhgreen]

4. How do you not know that torture is wrong?

[Brianboru]

7. Torture is wrong.

It is just so many here are praising murder by the military while at the same time they condemn waterboarding by the military. While wrong, I don't believe anyone has died from waterboarding.

[WinkyDink]

6. Go away, you moron.

[grahamhgreen]

5. Of course it didn't. If it had, we would have got him years ago.