CIA Chief Leon Panetta: Yes, Intelligence From Waterboarded Detainees Was Used to Track Down Bin Laden…
Vindication is sweet my friends.
WASHINGTON — Intelligence garnered from waterboarded detainees was used to track down al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and kill him, CIA Chief Leon Panetta told NBC News on Tuesday.
“Enhanced interrogation techniques” were used to extract information that led to the mission’s success, Panetta said during an interview with anchor Brian Williams. Those techniques included waterboarding, he acknowledged.
Panetta, who in a 2009 CIA confirmation hearing declared “water-boarding is torture and it’s wrong,” said Tuesday that debate about its use will continue.
“Whether we would have gotten the same information through other approaches I think is always gonna be an open question,” Panetta said.
“In the intelligence business you work from a lot of sources of information and that was true here,” Panetta said. “We had a multiple source — a multiple series of sources — that provided information with regards to the situation. Clearly some of it came from detainees and the interrogation of detainees but we also had information from other sources as well.”
Panetta’s comments hours after Attorney General Eric Holder defended as lawful Tuesday the intelligence gathering and raid that resulted in the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.
Posted by ZIP on Tuesday, May 3, 2011, at 10:12 pm | 
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Amateur hour continues in the teachers lounge huh? Yes it did. No it didn’t…
Look stupid ass Obominites, we already know that it did work…so STFU and save yourselves the trouble of looking more incompitent than you really are. That includes you Brennan.
Crow never smelled so sweet!
Since they had no ‘official’ knowledge of the programs, everyone who made the false claim will plead innocence.
It’s clear though that they intended to mislead.
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Just a few gallons down the nose and KSM sang like a bird.
Can’t wait until we hear from the ACLU and the rest of those anti-American lunatic lefties who act like they care about Muslims.
How about it Obama? Piglosi? Dinghy “This War is Lost” Harry?
DID WATERBOARDING WORK?
Whoa. Now the question is which liberal is lying?
I couldn’t pay for entertainment this good.
Search 34° 10′ 09.21″N 73° 14′ 32.88″E in Google Earth and you will find bin Laden’s compound. Click the imagery date on bottom left will show what the site looked like in 2001 and 2005. The controls to change date is on the upper right. There was nothing there in 2001, the site was half built in 2005.
All day long, I’ve been hearing one liberal say it wasn’t waterboarding, and another say it was.
The liberals are so confused, they’ve got their hands in their OWN pockets!
Sentinel: “Whoa. Now the question is which liberal is lying?”
Simple! Get two liberals together, say Panetta and Feinstein, and ask both of them, “Would the other one tell me that the Bin Laden information was obtained by waterboarding?”
Basic logic can analyze their answers and determine the truth relatively simply from there.
I just regained a little, once lost, respect for Panetta
Isn’t Panetta from the Clinton camp, originally? Hmmmm…. Would Hillary still challenge the sitting party incumbent?
So ALL of the administrative flunkies and Democrats in Congress who adamantly claimed with authority that enhanced interrogation did NOT lead to Osama’s whereabouts LIED, LIED, LIED!
I am disgusted, not because these people lie (I expect them to do nothing but), but because the bulk of the American people will let this pass like some run of the mill political he said/she said. We get the government we deserve.
I always assumed that because he was nominated by Obama, that Panetta would be totally worthless. (like the rest of Obama’s team)
I’ve actually been pleasantly surprised by him. He actually defended the CIA against obviously slanderous accusations made by Nancy Pelosi, among other things.
It’s hard to get an accurate feel for what Panetta is really like. He has to exist inside the bizzarro world that is ‘Hope N Change’, where reality itself is uncertain.
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Uh-Oh…
Clowns to the Left of Me – Jokers to the Right…
This Circus is too much fun now.
Msm leftist Talking Heads aren’t gonna like this…neither are the dem congress-critters.
LMAO!
Liberal blood must be boiling! All those years trying to convince us that tortured Muslims don’t give good intel.
Hahahahaha!
He had to face reality when being a spymaster and that reality is that we cannot play nice and that politics gets left at the door when you come to Langley. Likely also got a severe talking to by senior operatives when he ran to the executive branch to rat on them for some petty bullshit a few weeks after he became Chief.
We got OBL and everything is falling apart for poor bs. The muzzies are on the warpath, the Indians are pissed about stereotypes, the liberals are mad that we killed a human being, numerous countries have condemned the mission, Pock-ees-tan is hot because we crossed their border, waterboarding is legal and effective, and the only people happy about all this are the right – who aren’t going to vote for bs under any circumstances.
Best 48 hours ever.
Screw Pin~etta, {Spanish for “jack off”},….nothing but a Klintong leftover,….I don’t trust any of the bastards to tell the truth.
oops! they can’t get any of their stories straight. why can’t Bambi keep his hands off of other men? he is disgusting.{I think we all know why} yuck. Matter of fact he is working hard right now on his accomplishment of making June gay pride month. Isn’t that special. he just had a meeting with all of his transgenders too. Please someone make it all go away.??