Enhanced Interrogation Techniques: Little Evidence That Harsh Treatment Used By CIA Produced Any Counter-Terrorism Breakthroughs

You're half right.

It's to get false information, but it's got nothing to do with the wishes of the interrogators.  The EIT order came from inside the White House.

It was to set up a justification to attack Iraq.  To link 9/11 and Iraq.  To link Saddam Hussein to Al Qaeda.  
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