April 26, 2012 3:30 PM
The former head of the CIA's Clandestine Service, Jose Rodriguez, talks to Lesley Stahl about the "enhanced interrogation techniques," including waterboarding, used on high-level al Qaeda detainees. Watch Stahl's interview on Sunday, April 29 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
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See all 17 CommentsHe prepared himself very well. These measures always has been used....during others wars, all veternas knew abot it. It was not intended to kill anybody only to obtain information. **If those video tapes were out there it should have been worst in hands of irresponsable persons. He not only is a hero , he has been very BRAVE !
1) The Philippine government clearly warned the US government that Al Queda was attempting to weaponize commercial aircraft BEFORE 911. Yet the US government did next to nothing, and nobody has been fired.
2) The Taliban offered to turn over OBL to a third country for trial (like Indonesia), but this offer was summarily dismissed by the US government.
The several trillion dollars spent in Iraq and Afghanistan were largely unnecessary as 911 should never have happened, and OBL could be serving life in a prison from hell in Indonesia, but instead got off with a quick death--and the 'rule of law' was ignored. If the US government was doing the job they were paid to do, they would have taken cost effective security measures like reinforced cockpit doors and air marshals before 911 rather than spending trillions in two wars of revenge. An alternative was just overthrowing Sadaam and the Taliban, and then leaving the country immediately to the Iraqi provisional govt., and the Northern Alliance respectively, which would have cost only several billion dollars and not trillions.
The real purpose of these two wars as part of the so called 'War on Terror' has really been all about enriching government defense contractors who have complete control of Congress second to only the banking industry.
A very expensive 'income redistribution program' from the average American to the military industrial complex along with a diminution to our civil liberties courtesy of the 'Patriot Act' and a corruption of our values so that we now propose imitating the 'hard measures' of the common dictator, and add no money left over for education as China surges past us.
What Mr. Rodriquez and others of his ilk fail to understand is that the greatest national security asset of any nation's national security, once they have an 'appropriate' level of military power is the conviction of others around the world that they deserve moral support. To believe otherwise is just to embrace the 'ideology of force' as the Nazis did, and Sophie Scholl condemned over fifty years ago.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-fallon/interrogators-speak-out-on-torture_b_1461903.html
***You should have lost a son at 9/11 to know and understand why this was important.
Measures were not intended to kill anybody ! Just to obtain information ! This man is a hero !
If you want our country you should have to take it! We should not be giving it away out of fear of hurting someone's sense of identity
They are even trained to request lawyer a if they are caught in the USA or any Western Country because they are fully aware of the Western Guilt mindset and weakness!!! (The first word out of this THUG KSM was that he wanted a lawyer!!!)
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