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As a sidebar to the Pentagon's suppressed abusive photo collection, a Senate committee held hearings into "the CIA's harsh interrogation methods," as NBC's Pete Williams and CBS' Bob Orr (no link) both circumlocuted. Orr also called them "rough interrogations" but he did bring himself to use the T-word, saying they were authorized by the Justice Department in "torture memos." The witness at the hearings was Ali Soufan, the FBI interrogator who successfully questioned abu-Zubaydah about al-Qaeda in 2002. NBC's Williams quoted Soufan as claiming "it was his questioning, intended to outwit detainees, that got those answers not the CIA's simulated water drowning technique." CBS' Orr aired the former Vice President's justification for harsh methods used on "scores of other terror suspects including many at Guantanamo Bay." Claimed Cheney: "We saved thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousand of lives."
Do tell. Which plots to kill hundreds of thousands of people were foiled by using torture?
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