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
