Ed Show:
(edited to add link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42881405/ns/msnbc_tv-the_ed_show/)
Schultz: (...)And did the waterboarding work?(...)
Alexander: MATTHEW ALEXANDER, FORMER MILITARY INTERROGATOR: No, I don‘t believe that at all. In fact, it turns out that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, if the piece of information he gave was the fact that bin Laden had a courier, one, is not anything that is that revealing. Every senior leader of al Qaeda leader has a courier.
But, two, it happened a year after he was waterboarded, which tells me from my experience that I saw in Iraq, that the waterboarding actually slowed down the acquisition of intelligence by a year.
Moments later, Schultz interviewed Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on the effect torture had in finding bin Laden. (I boldened an interesting comment he made about Rush Limpballs as a bonus. ;) )
Wilkerson:Well, I hope so. I doubt it, though, because my Republican party will make that issue a big one, and they will find plenty of room to attack in, and create that room if it‘s not there. After all, we‘ve got Rush Limbaugh out there making the most absurd statements you could possibly imagine about this incident.
By the way, I listened to Matthew Alexander in your previous piece. There‘s another book coming out. It is going to be written by a CIA veteran of many, many years who was at Hotel California, at Point Zero, was in the secret rendition program, and the secret prisons. And this book is going to blow Cheney, Addington, all the rest away of them away.
I‘ve read the galleys, be out in June or July. Name of it is “The Interrogator,” if I didn‘t say that, Persius Books. And most of all, it says enhanced interrogation techniques, AKA torture, doesn‘t work. It‘s not even not productive. It‘s counterproductive.