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Rep. Reyes: Since Torture Might Be Necessary, Obama Should Keep Torture Apologists Hayden, McConnell
Think Progress —
... he added. “That’s where the new administration is going to have to decide what those parameters are, what those limitations are.”
As the Washington Independent’s Spencer Ackerman notes, Reyes “framed the debate as between effective torture and ineffective compliance with the law.” In fact, torturing does not provide reliable intelligence, as former interrogator (and author) Matthew Alexander told Jon Stewart Monday night:
STEWART: Did you ever see coercive methods pay ...
“How To Break A Terrorist”
The Moderate Voice —
There is a new book out by the lead interrogator who got Al Zarqawi and here’s an interview. He was also on The Daily Show.
In Iraq, we lived the “ticking time bomb” scenario every day. Numerous Al Qaeda members that we captured and interrogated were directly involved in coordinating suicide bombing attacks…I listened time and time again to foreign fighters, and Sunni Iraqis, state that the number one reason they had decided to pick up arms and join Al Qaeda was the abuses at Abu Ghraib and the authorized torture and abuse at Guantánamo Bay. My team of interrogators knew that we would become Al Qaeda’s best recruiters if we resorted ...
Scarborough: ‘That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever heard’ that torture doesn’t work.
Think Progress —
... and spoken publicly about how torture doesn’t work — told Laura Ingraham last month he broke one insurgent after he gave him a copy of Harry Potter. ...
