No,Torture Does Not Work and It Did Not Get bin Laden

I should also point out that George W. Bush had all the time from 9/11 until leaving office to capture bin Laden. He didn't and one can't give him credit for something he did not do and that took place almost two and a half years after he left office.

Dick Cheney was cute, saying he could help by wonder whether the techniques that were put in place didn't assist in getting bin Laden. He knows damn well they didn't.

Even Don Rumsfeld told Newsmax that waterboarding had nothing to do with getting bin Laden.

Heritage Foundation, the group who did the math of Paul Ryan's budget, out out a paper,"Detainee Interrogation Key To Killing Osama bin Laden."

John Yoo, who believes the President of the United States can crush the testicles of a boy to make a detainee speak but can not force a contractor to reveal his political donations, said that "Without the tough decisions taken by President Bush and his national security team, the United States could not have found and killed bin Laden."

Karl Rove told Fox and Friends that 'rendition, enhanced interrogation, obviously served (Bush's) succesor well."

Until past American officials are brought to justice for torture, we are going to repeat this nonsense until I am senile and in a nursing home. Point number 1: the compound was unknown to anyone at Gitmo because it had not been built yet. Point number 2: the pseudonym of the trusted courier--not his real name--was discovered in 2005 ot 2006--years after the torture program at Gitmo was shut down. The courier's name was not gotten from KSM during his waterboarding sessions.

The historical fact of the matter is that the Bush Administration failed to protect the United States against the 9/11 attacks after having been briefed on the imminent threast posed by Al Qaeda to the mainland of the country. The Bush Administration failed dramatically to capture bin Laden and his cohorts at Tora Bora. For a good explanation of this, watch PBS' "Bush's War", which explains how the bureaucracies fought over Afghanistan. The Bush Administration quickly downgraded the hunt for bin Laden and discontinued the unit that was in charge of this mission in 2006.

So, the Bush Administration in my view deserves no credit--even an afterthought--for the murder of bin Laden. None of the great torture techniques produced any usable intelligence for this recent mission.