CIA Agent: Waterboarding Is Torture, But Necessary
Check this little gem out from ABC News:
A leader of the CIA team that captured and interrogated the first major al Qaeda figure, Abu Zubaydah, says subjecting him to waterboarding was torture but necessary.
In the first public comment by any CIA officer involved in handling high-value al Qaeda targets, John Kiriakou, now retired, said the technique broke Zubaydah in less than 35 seconds.
“The next day, he told his interrogator that Allah had visited him in his cell during the night and told him to cooperate,” said Kiriakou in an interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC News’ “World News With Charles Gibson” and “Nightline.”
“From that day on, he answered every question,” Kiriakou said. “The threat information he provided disrupted a number of attacks, maybe dozens of attacks.”
Kiriakou says he did not know that the interrogation of Zubaydah was being secretly recorded by the CIA and had no idea the tapes had been destroyed.
I’m not sure what planet the anti-torture crowd is living on, but the argument that a person will say anything to make the torture stop just doesn’t hold up.
For every military person that says torture doesn’t work, I can point to two who says it does. A truly innocent person might make stuff up, but a guy who really knows something will usually start with the truth.
Waterboarding is the least painful torture technique available. Zubaydah was waterboarded for a whole 35 seconds and that’s it. There’s no reason to get hysterical and act like America is the new “torture” capital of the world.
Watch the full report tonight on “World News With Charles Gibson” at 6:30 p.m. ET and on “Nightline” at 11:35 p.m. ET.
THEORY:
What if when Allah supposedly came to Zubaydah in the night and told him to cooperate, it was really a hologram the CIA designed? Meaning they were able to create a hologram of Allah that floated above Zubaydah compelling him to cooperate.
Be honest, would you really be that surprised if the CIA tried something like that?
-Chris Jones
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Hey Chris here is a crazy idea why don’t you read a history book. You might want to find out that the Shah of Iran tortured a lot of Iranians while in power as did Adolf Hitler in all of the occupied land the Nazis acquired.
Hey guess what? Both of these guys lost because the people they tortured never gave in and the torture made people and all of their family and friends more determined to bring them down, which they did.
So Chris if you feel comfortable with America using the same tactics by histories worst failed leaders then you are sadistic fool.
You may want to read up what people in intel say about torture. You know trained professionals that have experience in the field not a guy like you tha tparrots whatever Fox news and Dick Cheney tells you is real.
It just doesn’t work as people will say anything to make it stop.
The guy you mention in the above story is mentally handicap, didn’t provide “important intel and probably cracked for good as his Allah vision indicates.
On the other hand.
The fact that you compare what the Shah of Iran and Hitler did to ANYTHING we’re doing is completely insane.
The fact that you bring Fox News and Dick Cheney into the discussion shows that your an ignorant far-left loon incapable of a rational discussion.
I have arrived at my conclusions from doing exactly what you suggest, reading history books.
You should probably take your own advice, and read a few books. Something other than the left-wing propaganda you no doubt consume on a daily basis.