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Torture
works: Key Bush figures say waterboarding helped in capture of bin Laden ... and that
Obama should share the credit
Last updated at 11:38 AM on 9th May 2011
Senior members of the
Bush administration spoke out on Sunday to praise waterboarding and claim their share of
the credit for bin Laden's capture.
Former Vice President
Dick Cheney said waterboarding 'probably' helped in tracking down Bin Laden.
Mr Cheney told Fox News
Sunday: 'It was a good programme. It was legal programme. It was not torture. 'I
would strongly recommend we continue it.'
Speaking on CBS, former
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called it 'a mistake' to rule out waterboarding, saying:
'It's clear that those techniques that the CIA used worked.'
The key to finding Bin
Laden was locating his courier.
Captured terrorist Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed gave the courier's nickname in 2003 after being waterboarded 183 times.
Mohammed never gave up
the real name, even under so-called 'enhanced interrogation.'
Opponents of torture
believe normal questioning would have been more effective on Mohammed.
Credit where credit's
due: Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and ex-President George W. Bush
believe Obama has done to much chest-thumping
Mr Rumsfeld said he
thought Mr Obama was right to opt for a SEALs raid, but added: 'I would have preferred a
lot less discussion out of the White House about intelligence.'
President Bush declined
an invitation to visit Ground Zero with Mr Obama because he thought he wasn't sharing
credit for the raid, the New York Daily News reports.
Former Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice re-emphasised on CNN by stressing that the operation, which she described
as a 'victory across presidencies' took years to set up.
Erring on the side of
caution: National security adviser Tom Donilon appeared on NBC's Meet The Press today,
saying he had seen no evidence that
She said: 'You don't just
stumble upon Osama Bin Laden. It takes a lot of work to get there. These leads
developed quite a long time ago.'
Former Homeland Security
Secretary Michael Chertoff added on NBC: 'Both presidents deserve a lot of credit for
maturing the apparatus over 10 years.'
The Republicans spoke out
as National security adviser Tom Donilon said the cache of intelligence seized at Osama
Bin Laden's squalid
He said that Al Qaeda is
not strategically defeated yet. But the death of Bin Laden and the information found in
his lair are an important milestone in the struggle to take down the terorrist
organisation.
He also slammed Bin
Laden's deputy Ayman Al Zawahiri as not anywhere the leader that Bin Laden was.
He also said that the
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But his remarks appeared
over cautious in light of an interview Barack Obama gave to CBS, to be aired on 60 Minutes
tonight, in which the President said that Bin Laden must have had some kind of support
network in
'I can tell you directly
that - I've not seen evidence that would tell us that the political, the military, or the
intelligence leadership had foreknowledge - of Bin Laden,' Mr Donilon told NBC's Meet The
Press.
How could they not know?
'Home videos' from Bin Laden's compound show the terror leader watching himself on TV,
above; and practising propaganda videos, below. The videos are part of the giant cache of
intelligence seized
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