Torture: What's it for? (Memphis Commercial Appeal)

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Saturday, April 25, 2009

... Both The Washington Post and The New York Times have reported that by the time CIA higher ups ordered Abu Zubaydah brutalized, the field level interrogators, using traditional techniques, were satisfied he had told them all he knew.

Zubaydah got the full treatment, including water boarding. authorized in the torture memos. And he talked -- and he talked, said the Post, sending "hundreds of CIA agents and investigators in pursuit of phantoms" ...

Former Vice President Cheney insists the brutal interrogation techniques did work and that they "stopped a great many terrorist attacks" on the order of 9/11.

Cheney has made sweeping claims before that have not been borne out ...

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