A former FBI agent, present for the early interrogations of Abu Zubaydah, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that "enhanced interrogation techniques" (aka torture) were "slow, ineffective, unreliable and harmful."
Testifying from behind a screen, Ali Soufan, stated that his interrogation of Abu Zubayday was initially successful, and that he was able to obtain "actionable intelligence" from the terrorist within an hour. Not only, then, were the CIA's torture techniques ineffective (not to mention illegal and immoral), but they interfered with legitimate intelligence gathering in the wake of September 11, 2001. Soufan's testimony directly contradicts former VP Cheney's claim that the Bush administration's policies "kept us safe" for seven years.
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Big Oil paid you off! Cheney got to you! Racist!!!!!!!
Torture is wrong AND it doesn't work, but evidencephobes like Dick Cheney who present themselves as realists don't care.