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“Half of US intelligence info came from detainees”
Published: 03 November, 2009, 22:02
Edited: 04 November, 2009, 07:45
TAGS: Crime, Thrills&Spills, Human rights, Law, USA
Recently declassified documents reveal that half of all human intelligence the US government had on Al-Qaeda was discovered through detainee interrogations, Christopher Farrell from Judicial Watch told RT.
“It hadn’t been previously produced in any other record,” he said.
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Studies have shown that 'intelligence' obtained through harsh questioning (I shall avoid the T word) is rarely of any value, indeed it is arguable that it can be descibed as intelligence at all. The US have badly let themselves down by their harsh treatment of 'detainees'. Their treatment of prisoners (as graphically illustrated by the Abu Graib photographs, and TV pictures of Guantanamo Bay) is now infamous. They lost the moral high ground years ago as a result of this and many other now well documented actions. If they are still treating detainees 'harshly' in order to extract 'intelligence' then it is hardly suprising their operations in Afghanistan are grinding to a halt, that they can proceed no further with Iraq, and that they really seem to think that Iran is a 'threat to the world'.