Soufan Challenges Torture Advocates’ Case

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Ali Soufan is now making the point that torture advocates cite the interrogations of KSM and Jose Padilla as two cases in which torture produced results. But waterboarding wasn’t approved until August 1, 2002 — after the interrogations of those two suspects occurred.

In other words, he seems to be arguing that such techniques weren’t used, at least with legal sign-off, to produce that information.

This will undoubtedly need follow up.

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