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Ex-CIA Officer: Yes, Harsh Interrogations Helped Us Nail Bin Laden

rightsworstnightmare Wrote: Jan 04, 2013 3:26 PM

I see the whackos on here still find it galling that Obama nailed bin.

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pascagoulapappy Wrote: Jan 05, 2013 1:11 AM

I see there are still some moral pygmies around who would consign thousands of innocent civilians to the unspeakable cruelty of a terrorist attack rather than pour water down the throat of an Al Qaeda thug.

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Uber Dave Wrote: Jan 04, 2013 3:29 PM

Without Bush's policies, Owebambi couldn't have "nailed" a jaywalker...

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rightsworstnightmare Wrote: Jan 04, 2013 3:33 PM

I agree. Without Bush we wouldn't have needed to hunt bin laden down. Thank you George Bush and Condi Rice for allowing the slaughter of almost 4000 Americans while you slept at the switch.

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anderson659 Wrote: Jan 04, 2013 3:37 PM

I see, 9/11 must have been just a criminal action, right? Is that why Clinton failed to kill Bin Laden but tried ?

Should we thank Lyndon Baines Johnson for the 58,000 American dead out of Vietnam?

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rightsworstnightmare Wrote: Jan 04, 2013 3:40 PM

Thank Eisenhower for those, it started with him btw. At least Clinton tried, OBL was cornered in Tora Bora and Bush crapped his pants and let him slip away.

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AmyDB Wrote: Jan 04, 2013 3:28 PM

nope...but the programs Bush put into action helped & he gets no credit for that at all.

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anderson659 Wrote: Jan 04, 2013 3:30 PM

Amy:

well said.

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lois01 Wrote: Jan 04, 2013 3:34 PM

Sure he does; I give him full credit for doing nothing to stop the terrorist attacks OBL was credited with. He had the intelligence...

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Ex-CIA Officer: Yes, Harsh Interrogations Helped Us Nail Bin Laden

This doesn't quite qualify as breaking news for those who tracked the extraordinary labyrinth of intelligence that emerged in the days following the 2011 Abbottabad raid, but the subject of US interrogation policy is again generating controversy in advance of the release of 'Zero Dark Thirty,' a film that dramatizes the bin Laden mission. Writing in today's Washington Post, a former top CIA counter-terrorism officer sets the record straight on what measures were, and were not, employed to help bring down the world's most infamous terrorist. Jose Rodriguez -- who made headlines last year when

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