President Bush told a September 2006 news conference that one plot, to attack a Los Angeles office tower, was "derailed" in early 2002 — before the harsh CIA interrogation measures were approved, contrary to those who claim that waterboarding revealed it.
Or … Or … the “harsh interrogation methods” were being used before they were “approved”. However, that's not the only twist:
[The] CIA officially says2 that a plot to fly an airliner into L.A.’s Library Tower3 was foiled through the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.4[...]
3 According to the Bush administration, this alleged plot was foiled in 2002.
4 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was captured in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on March 1, 2003.
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[Marc] Thiessen, formerly chief speechwriter for George W. Bush, is [...] lately engaged in a battle of wits with Slate’s Timothy Noah. Andrew Sullivan stands with Noah, while Crazy Andy McCarthy is ook-ooking on Thiessen’s side, explaining how Saddam Hussein was in league with Al Qaeda, and occasioning relief by not dragging Obama’s birth certificate into it.
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Theissen makes a few more unverifiable claims (i.e. “according to the intelligence community”), adding, “These are just a few of the plots that were broken up because of information gained from CIA interrogations.” That means Thiessen knows about others but isn’t telling!
Our recommendation, of course, is waterboarding. Also, we could ask Thiessen if that practice yields reliable information, and keep doing it until he says no.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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