Why Torture Doesn't Work, Pt. 374

More on the al-Libi saga...

NY Times: Qaeda-Iraq Link U.S. Cited Is Tied to Coercion Claim

The Bush administration based a crucial prewar assertion about ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda on detailed statements made by a prisoner [Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi] while in Egyptian custody who later said he had fabricated them to escape harsh treatment, according to current and former government officials...

...The new disclosure provides the first public evidence that bad intelligence on Iraq may have resulted partly from the administration's heavy reliance on third countries to carry out interrogations of Qaeda members and others detained as part of American counterterrorism efforts...

Wowee!

Sounds like 'enhanced interrogation techniques' are really helping the President's flexibility to defeat terrorism!