From the newly released docs Cheney wanted released.

Pt. 17:

The Agency’s detention and interrogation of terrorists has provided intelligence that has enabled the identification and apprehension of other terrorists and warned of terrorist plots planned for the United States and around the world. The CTC Program has resulted in the issuance of thousands of individual intelligence reports and analytic products supporting the counterterrorism efforts of U.S. policymakers and military commanders.

What is interesting here, and what the media isn’t reporting, is that the Army Field Manual WAS used when interrogations began of terrorist suspects but proved ineffective. One of the reason was that the AFM had been available via the internet, even before the 9/11 attacks. We know that Al Qaeda training provided lessons on how to resist the methods the AFM outlined.

What made the enhance techniques so effective is that terrorist suspects never thought we’d “go there”, even as Osama Bin Laden said, we didn’t have the stomach for it.

We did, and it worked.

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