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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">At last, Dick Cheney is <b><i>Vindicated.
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At Last!... At Last.</i></b><u><b><i><br>
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Dick was Right! <br>
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</i></b></u>Torture is Love!<br>
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How refreshing! <br>
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Torture works wonders!<br>
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</font><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Get in touch with
your inner self! <br>
Confession is good for the soul!<br>
It's fun!</font><br>
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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Let our Blackwater masseuses
demonstrate the wonder of waterboarding to you in the privacy<br>
of the hood of your very own automobile!<br>
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Bush-Era Interrogations Provided Key Details on Bin Laden's Location<br>
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By Catherine Herridge<br>
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Published May 02, 2011 | FoxNews.com<br>
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Years of intelligence gathering, including details gleaned from
controversial interrogations of Al Qaeda members during the Bush
administration, ultimately led the Navy SEALs who killed Usama bin
Laden to his compound in Pakistan.<br>
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The initial threads of intelligence began surfacing in 2003 and came in
the form of information about a trusted bin Laden courier, a senior
U.S. official told Fox News on condition of anonymity. Bin Laden had
cut off all traditional lines of communication with his network by this
time because the Al Qaeda leader knew the U.S. intelligence community
was monitoring him. It was said that he also didn’t even trust his most
loyal men to know his whereabouts and instead communicated only through
couriers.<br>
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But it was four years later, in 2007, that terror suspects at the
Guantanamo Bay military prison started giving up information about the
key courier.<br>
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Around this time, the use of enhanced interrogation tactics, including
waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning, were being denounced as
torture by critics of the Bush administration. President George W. Bush
and Vice President Dick Cheney came under intense pressure for
supporting rough treatment of prisoners. Critics claimed that any
information given under duress simply couldn’t be trusted.<br>
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It is an argument that Bush and Cheney strongly rejected then, and now.<br>
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“I would assume that the enhanced interrogation program that we put in
place produced some of the results that led to bin Laden's ultimate
capture,” Cheney told Fox News on Monday, a hint of vindication in his
voice.<br>
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Information was given up by prisoners, including 9/11 architect Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed. U.S. officials described the courier as a talented
protege and trusted associate of both Mohammed and Al Qaeda’s No. 3
leader at the time, Abu Faraj al Libi. Both men were held at Guantanamo
Bay.<br>
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U.S. officials were told the courier’s name was known only to bin
Laden’s innermost circle.<br>
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By 2009, the U.S. intelligence community had a rough idea of where the
courier operated: a region north of Islamabad, Pakistan. It was another
year before this compound was identified in August 2010 as a likely
home for a senior Al Qaeda member.<br>
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The compound was eight times the size of other homes in the affluent
neighborhood, and the impressive 18-foot-high walls with barbed wire
drew scrutiny from intelligence analysts.<br>
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By early this year, information from multiple intelligence sources,
including the now-shuttered harsh interrogation program, as well as CIA
operatives and Special Operations Forces on the ground in Afghanistan
and Pakistan, were building a clearer case that the compound might
house bin Laden. Officials found out that there were three families
living there. In addition, a significantly older man, who was shown
deference by the group, was not required to work on the compound.<br>
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Critics of the Bush-era interrogation programs have suggested that the
harsh interrogations were not essential to tracking bin Laden and that
the information could have been obtained by more humane means. But for
Cheney and other Bush administration alumni, Sunday’s raid stands as
proof their system worked.<br>
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Read more: <a
href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/02/bush-era-interrogations-provided-key-details-bin-ladens-location/#ixzz1LGfM5I9K">http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/05/02/bush-era-interrogations-provided-key-details-bin-ladens-location/#ixzz1LGfM5I9K</a><br>
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