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The rise in such "targeted killing" may take terrorists off the battlefield, but it doesn't yield intelligence.
Rather, partnerships with communities will yield intelligence information that is far more valuable than summonses given to elderly couples looking to get their prescription medication.
Some CIA officers doubted the informant's reliability, but CIA Director George J. Tenet requested special permission to use "enhanced interrogation" techniques on Gul, saying it could yield "intelligence necessary to save American lives by disrupting the pre-election plot".
As the Inspectors General's report revealed last summer, this obsession with secrecy actually made Americans less safe, as the program was kept so secret that even when it managed to yield intelligence, tight classification restrictions sometimes prevented information from being shared with officials who needed it.
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The report indicates the CIA's interrogation programme yielded intelligence that led to the capture of other terrorist suspects and warned of terror plots against the US and elsewhere.
The mall attack yielded intelligence leads, as militants actively discussed the days-long siege in Kenya among themselves; tracing those discussions made it easier to determine the militants' whereabouts.
Soufan would later testify and write in a book, The Black Banners, that the CIA interfered with and ultimately scotched a promising and less-coercive interrogation of Abu Zubaydah – one that the landmark 2014 Senate inquiry found yielded intelligence on al-Qaida.
Next, the president used his personal popularity and the stature of his office to implicitly identify as liars those former senior U.S. officials who know -- not "argue" or "contend" or "assert" but know -- that the interrogation techniques have yielded intelligence essential to the nation's defense.
And other columnists have argued that even if torture does sometimes yield useful intelligence, that must be set against the probably larger volume of intelligence forgone because Iraqis and Afghans are outraged at what Americans do to their captives".We've sent a message to the world that the United States is not like the terrorists," said Mr McCain.
Analysts in Iraq said that, if true, the arrest would not necessarily yield useful intelligence.
Military officials said such techniques did not yield reliable intelligence from prisoners.
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