Tucked over at HuffPo, testimony that didn't make the Senate's website.
Whitehouse.gov really isn't supplying enough original-source material. Still, at least they didn't dump the decision to not release the photos in the Friday garbage, right?
The "lab report" that Krauthammerians didn't want to hear:
I also want to address the so called "ticking time bomb" scenario that is so often used as an excuse for torture and abuse. My team lived through this scenario every day in Iraq. The men that we captured and interrogated were behind Zarqawi's suicide bombing campaign.
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I also conducted point-of-capture interrogations in Iraqi homes, streets, and cars, and I discovered that in these time-constrained environments where an interrogator has ten or fifteen minutes to assess a detainee and obtain accurate intelligence information, relationship building and deception were again the most effective interrogation tools. It is about being smarter, not harsher.
-Matthew Alexander, former Air Force, recipient of the Bronze Star
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I also conducted point-of-capture interrogations in Iraqi homes, streets, and cars, and I discovered that in these time-constrained environments where an interrogator has ten or fifteen minutes to assess a detainee and obtain accurate intelligence information, relationship building and deception were again the most effective interrogation tools. It is about being smarter, not harsher.
-Matthew Alexander, former Air Force, recipient of the Bronze Star
