LogikAndReazon
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John Kenneth Galbraith once observed that "the enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events." And events have finally caught up with the oft-repeated claim that torture doesn't work and that it especially didn't work in tracking down Osama bin Laden.
The more journalists probe into the hunt that ended in bin Laden's death at the hands of a Navy SEAL team a year ago, the more apparent it is that the first clues leading to his Pakistan hideout were beaten and bullied out of captured al-Qaida members.
Two books published last year - Peter L. Bergen's "Manhunt" and Mark Bowden's "The Finish" - were the first to suggest that the trail to bin Laden began with information obtained with what the CIA euphemistically refers to as "enhanced interrogation techniques." And now a TV documentary based on "Manhunt," which includes on-the-record interviews with several members of the CIA team that hunted bin Laden, is airing on HBO.........
Sometimes torture works - Glenn Garvin
But its really insensitive and mean to innocent jihadist neanderthals................
The more journalists probe into the hunt that ended in bin Laden's death at the hands of a Navy SEAL team a year ago, the more apparent it is that the first clues leading to his Pakistan hideout were beaten and bullied out of captured al-Qaida members.
Two books published last year - Peter L. Bergen's "Manhunt" and Mark Bowden's "The Finish" - were the first to suggest that the trail to bin Laden began with information obtained with what the CIA euphemistically refers to as "enhanced interrogation techniques." And now a TV documentary based on "Manhunt," which includes on-the-record interviews with several members of the CIA team that hunted bin Laden, is airing on HBO.........
Sometimes torture works - Glenn Garvin
But its really insensitive and mean to innocent jihadist neanderthals................