Senate Report Rejects Claim on Hunt for Bin Laden
Source: NY Times
WASHINGTON — Months before the operation that killed Osama bin Laden in 2011, the Central Intelligence Agency secretly prepared a public-relations plan that would stress that information gathered from its disputed interrogation program had played a critical role in the hunt. Starting the day after the raid, agency officials in classified briefings made that point to Congress.
But in page after page of previously classified evidence, the Senate Intelligence Committee report on C.I.A. torture, released Tuesday, rejects the notion that torturing detainees contributed to finding Bin Laden — a conclusion that was also strongly implied in “Zero Dark Thirty,” the popular 2012 movie about the hunt for the Qaeda leader.
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It was in 2004 that the C.I.A. came to realize that it should focus on finding Mr. Kuwaiti as part of the hunt for Bin Laden, after it interrogated a Qaeda operative, Hassan Ghul, who had been captured in Iraqi Kurdistan. The report concludes that Mr. Ghul provided “the most accurate” intelligence that the agency produced about Mr. Kuwaiti’s role and ties to Bin Laden.
The Senate Intelligence Committee report discredits the notion that the C.I.A. would not have found Osama bin Laden if it had not tortured detainees. But the report emphasizes that Mr. Ghul provided all the important information about the courier before he was subjected to any torture techniques and spoke freely to his interrogators. During that two-day period in January 2004, it said, the C.I.A. produced 21 intelligence reports from Mr. Ghul, who one officer said “sang like a tweetie bird.”
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So the CIA knew about a link between bin Laden and the currier in 2002 and yet
bush and Cheney did nothing about getting bin Laden?
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... and not tell them about the raid on the bin Laden compound because they
were sure that Pakistani intell would have tipped off bin Laden.
I find it more then a little perplexing that they very same time bin Laden moved into
Abbottabad .... 2005 .... the bush admin shut down the CIA hunt for bin Laden.
Maybe some waterboarding could help their memories?
Sunlei
BTW does anybody still talk about the $12 billion in cash that went missing in Iraq?
http://www.thepaltrysapien.com/2011/06/iraqs-missing-money/poar02_iraq_billions0710/
