<i>Hard Measures</i>: Torture Is Humane

The purpose of waterboarding was not to get real or accurate information. It was to get false information. Among the tasks it was used for (none about getting real intel, none for the "ticking time bomb"-scenario) was to set up a justification to attack Iraq. To link 9/11 and Iraq. To link Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda. The tapes would have shown that. It had nothing to do with the wishes of the interrogators, although it's clear now that the CIA used sociopaths in the agency to carry it out. The Enhanced Interrogation Techniques' order came from inside the White House.
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