VIDEO--Countdown: It's torture, it doesn't work, Cheney prepares his defense

By GottaLaff

Here is the video that I referred to in this post:

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Via The Plum Line, to which Keith refers:

He’s [Cheney] trying to declassify and release more detail on what was revealed through the interrogation of top Al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Shaykh Muhammad. [...]

[O]ne of the four torture memos released by Obama actually references a separate CIA document with the same date — July 13th, 2004 — as one of the docs Cheney requested.

In the torture memo, Bush lawyer Steven Bradbury described that 2004 document as a source for the claim that “prior to his capture,” the CIA considered Muhammad to be one of Al Qaeda’s “most important operational leaders.” He also cites it as the source for the claim that interrogation techniques have turned Muhammad and another top Al Qaeda leader into “pivotal sources” for the CIA for their “analysis and speculation about the capabilities, methodologies, and mindsets of terrorists.”

So, in short, there exists a document with the same date as the one Cheney wants that was compiled in order detail how torture made Muhammad a “pivotal source.” If this is the one Cheney is after, it presumably could reveal what info, if any, torture squeezed out of Muhammad. [...]

[A]s Spencer Ackerman puts it, is this: “One wonders when the CIA was asked to put that document together, and by whom.”

Other posts he referred to are here and here.