Why We Used Waterboarding: Former CIA Director General Michael Hayden

In a recently-released memo it was revealed that the United States used waterboarding on Abu Zubaydah 83 times and Kahalid Shaikh Mohammed 183 times.  Now former CIA Director General Michael Hayden, USAF, explains why,

Most of the people who oppose these techniques want to be able to say, “‘I don’t want my nation doing this, which is a purely honorable position,” Hayden continued. “The facts of the case are that the use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer.  It really did work.  The president’s speech, President Bush in September of ’06, outlined how one detainee led to another, led to another, with the use of these techniques.”
Hayden also reiterated his view that the release of the interrogation memos sheds light on information that would be valuable to our enemies.
“At the tactical level, what we have described for our enemies in the midst of a war are the outer limits that any American would ever go to in terms of interrogating an al-Qaeda terrorist,” he said. “That’s very valuable information.”
And he disputed the president’s rationale for releasing the memos, which was that the information was already public.

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H/T: The Hill