qrayjack
04-21-2009, 07:27 PM
CIA Confirms: Waterboarding 9/11 Mastermind Led to Info that Aborted 9/11-Style Attack on Los Angeles - By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief
(CNSNews.com) - The Central Intelligence Agency told CNSNews.com today that it stands by the assertion made in a May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that the use of “enhanced techniques” of interrogation on al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) -- including the use of waterboarding -- caused KSM to reveal information that allowed the U.S. government to thwart a planned attack on Los Angeles.
Before he was waterboarded, when KSM was asked about planned attacks on the United States, he ominously told his CIA interrogators, “Soon, you will know.”
According to the previously classified May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that was released by President Barack Obama last week, the thwarted attack -- which KSM called the “Second Wave”-- planned “ ‘to use East Asian operatives to crash a hijacked airliner into’ a building in Los
Angeles.”MORE (http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID= 46949)
Especially in light of this information, can anyone actually believe that even the process, let alone the content, of the memo release does not compromise national security? If so, I'd sure like to hear it explained.“You have informed us that the interrogation of KSM—once enhanced techniques were employed—led to the discovery of a KSM plot, the ‘Second Wave,’ ‘to use East Asian operatives to crash a hijacked airliner into’ a building in Los Angeles,” says the memo.There's more, but this puts perspective to the leftist desperation to blame and damage the Bush administration by claiming waterboarding is torture. It's not, but I'd burn any terrorist SOB alive to get the above information.
(CNSNews.com) - The Central Intelligence Agency told CNSNews.com today that it stands by the assertion made in a May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that the use of “enhanced techniques” of interrogation on al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) -- including the use of waterboarding -- caused KSM to reveal information that allowed the U.S. government to thwart a planned attack on Los Angeles.
Before he was waterboarded, when KSM was asked about planned attacks on the United States, he ominously told his CIA interrogators, “Soon, you will know.”
According to the previously classified May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that was released by President Barack Obama last week, the thwarted attack -- which KSM called the “Second Wave”-- planned “ ‘to use East Asian operatives to crash a hijacked airliner into’ a building in Los
Angeles.”MORE (http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID= 46949)
Especially in light of this information, can anyone actually believe that even the process, let alone the content, of the memo release does not compromise national security? If so, I'd sure like to hear it explained.“You have informed us that the interrogation of KSM—once enhanced techniques were employed—led to the discovery of a KSM plot, the ‘Second Wave,’ ‘to use East Asian operatives to crash a hijacked airliner into’ a building in Los Angeles,” says the memo.There's more, but this puts perspective to the leftist desperation to blame and damage the Bush administration by claiming waterboarding is torture. It's not, but I'd burn any terrorist SOB alive to get the above information.