Again, we are seeing how former VP Dick Cheney's 'truths' are slowly being unspun as the alleged "irrefutable" evidence he has claimed for so long from classified documents slowly seeps its way into the public sphere.
Here again is just one more example disproving Cheney's justifications for torturing prisoners in the poorly named "War on Terror", even though it contributed little to nothing in terms of knowledge, and instead irrefutably damaged the image of the United States throughout the world.
The op-ed can be found here:
A few quotes:
The three that were released recently by the C.I.A. — the 2004 report by the inspector general and two memos from 2004 and 2005 on intelligence gained from detainees — fail to show that the techniques stopped even a single imminent threat of terrorism.
One damaging consequence of the harsh interrogation program was that the expert interrogators whose skills were deemed unnecessary to the new methods were forced out.
Meanwhile, the professionals in the field are relieved that an ineffective, unreliable, unnecessary and destructive program — one that may have given Al Qaeda a second wind and damaged our country’s reputation — is finished.
