Pelo contrário: tortura atrapalhou investigação de Osama

A milicada americana aproveita o júbilo vingativo dos cidadãos para atestar que sua linha de torturas (e outros desvarios) estava certa. Quando as evidências são pelo contrário. O depoimento anexo, de um torturador, reforça como a tortura é ineficaz (independente de questões morais).

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Military interrogator: Torture 'slowed down' effort to find bin Laden

One of the things that people aren’t talking about is the fact that one of the people that was confronted with this information that bin Laden had a courier is Skaykh al-Libi, who was held in a CIA secret prison and was tortured and who gave his CIA interrogators the name of the courier as being Maulawi Jan. And the CIA chased down that information and found out that person didn’t exist, that al-Libi had lied. And nobody is talking about the fact that al-Libi caused us to waste resources and time by chasing a false lead because he was tortured. The other thing that’s being left out of this conversation is the fact that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed certainly knew the real name of the courier, whose nom de guerre or nickname was Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti. But Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had to have known his real name or at least how to find him, a location that we might look, but he never gave up that information. And so, what we’re seeing is that waterboarding and enhanced interrogation techniques, just like professional interrogators have been saying for years, always result in either limited information, false information or no information. Read more at www.dailykos.com

 

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