CIA chief: Waterboarding aided bin Laden raid (WHAT THE HELL?)

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http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/42880435/ns/today-today_news/?fb_ref=story_header&fb_source=profile_multiline

WASHINGTON — Intelligence garnered from waterboarded detainees was used to track down al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and kill him, CIA Chief Leon Panetta told NBC News on Tuesday.

"Enhanced interrogation techniques" were used to extract information that led to the mission's success, Panetta said during an interview with anchor Brian Williams. Those techniques included waterboarding, he acknowledged.
Panetta, who in a 2009 CIA confirmation hearing declared "waterboarding is torture and it's wrong," said Tuesday that debate about its use will continue.
"Whether we would have gotten the same information through other approaches I think is always gonna be an open question," Panetta said


I thought that this was not the case?