U.S. officials slam Dick Cheney's claim that waterboarding 9/11 mastermind 183 times was a 'success'

[sabra]

Source: NY Daily News

U.S. counterterrorism officials are reacting angrily to ex-Vice President Dick Cheney's claim that waterboarding 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed 183 times was a "success" that produced actionable intelligence.

"Cheney is full of crap," one intelligence source with decades of experience said Tuesday.

Another retired counterterrorism official who read reports when they arrived in Washington detailing the confessions of Mohammed, known as "KSM," said most of the information he coughed up during the waterboarding sessions involved things he thought his CIA-contract interrogators already knew, or were just his ideas for mayhem.

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Former CIA official John Brennan, who now serves as Obama's White House counterterrorism adviser, told the Daily News then that Mohammed was "quite creative, and threw out a lot of seeds to see if they would actually germinate."

"They didn't have the people or capability to do all of those," Brennan said of the 30 plots KSM claimed to have conceived of.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/04/22/200...

[Richardo]

1. Best quote in the history of hstory: "Cheney is full of crap"

Thank you, unidentified intelligence source

[merh]

2. 9/11 commission relied on his tortured confessions

they should be angry as hell

[Baby Snooks]

3. "What do you know?"

That is the question asked - "What do you know?"

What we don't know is what is behind the question.

Is the question "What do you know about al Queda?" or "What do you know about us?"

[tomm2thumbs]

4. and then to know Cheney was going to blame those told to do it as 'the ones responsible'

this man is truly beneath human dignity

[Overseas]

5. K&R !! Glad some officials are countering Cheney's campaign. //nt

[BREMPRO]

6. "Cheney is full of crap," SNAP! LMAO! The "intelligence source" is quite perceptive!

Cheney is a pillar of doo-doo
A sack of sh*t
A case of caca
A valise of merde

so many ways to say it...

[tanyev]

10. I've got to wonder if that was Richard Clarke.

[spirald]

7. Success for Cheney, failure for the U.S.

Apparently they picked up some random guy, called him "Khalid Shaikh Mohammed" (who witnesses say was killed a year earlier in another raid), and tortured him until he made up some useful lies about Iraq having WMD and training Al Qaeda (among many other fictions), then used the fabricated "intelligence" to justify the invasion of Iraq.

If you wonder what could possibly be useful about torture, the fabrication of intelligence is probably it, but it only creates plausible deniability for you if everyone else thinks that torture works.

This was basically a conspiracy to justify an illegal invasion, and this whole torture thing just goes to show how deeply premeditated this was. It's really rich for Cheney to publicly claim success on national TV.

[classysassy]

8. Dick

refuses to fade away,if there was justice in america,that evil bastard would be in jail,(not a country club jail).I am sure justice would be served,or dick would be served.

[daleo]

9. Cheney's like the Nazi dentist in Marathon Man

"Is it safe?"

[TNOE]

11. Oxymoron

Perhaps you could claim "once" a success - but 183 times?? I think that would be classified under MASSIVE FAIL, if it weren't so damn despicable.