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Originally Posted by keeperreaper
Waterboarding is super effective. To not be able to use this technique to extract viable, pertinent information from enemies of the country is a joke.
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If by "super effective" you actually mean, "has never provided substantially useful information" then you'd be spot on.
Officials: Waterboarding Foiled No Plot
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/...n4901154.shtml
All waterboarding does is get the person to say whatever they possibly can to make the torture stop - be it useful information or not.
Buckman, to answer your question, my understanding is that this was released on a Freedom of Information Act request.