Kiriakou could not name a single person who had been waterborded that provided relevant intel. could not name any plot that had been thwarted based on intel gathered from waterboarding and admitted he had no such specifc information. Another instance of someone expressing their opinion as fact in support of this administration and playing on the politics of fear.

I've put together a big timeline on the CIA tapes scandal that adds has a lot of information about this. In short, it seems that Kiriakou is wildly off track from all the other evidence

What about Gerald Posner's reporting on the Zubaydah interrogation in his book Why America Slept?

According to Posner, his CIA interrogators initially set up a false flag operation, pretending to be Saudi intelligence agents, in order to intimidate Zubaydah. To their chagrin, he responded by visibly expressing a sense of relief. He eventually gave them the names and phone numbers, from memory, of three different Saudi princes - starting with Prince Ahmed, and instructed them to call in for further instructions on how to handle the situation.

Posner's initial reporting on this has now been independently corroborated by Pulitzer Prize-winner James Risen of the New York Times. He describes the exact same scene, and same results, in his book State of War (p. 187).

And what about the comprehensive secrecy required of all CIA employees, that is supposed to be respected till death?

Does it somehow cover Valery Plame; even concerning such topics as how long she has worked for the agency, and yet not apply to this guy, who is (supposedly) violating even more secret topics?

This whole story stinks of sci-ops.

More hate Bush spin from ABC...yawn

Would we get more accurate information from Carl Rove,Scooter Libby, Harriet Myers, Dick Chenney and George Bush if we waterboarded them once a week? It might even improve their memories!

WE ARE AT WAR!!!! THESE PEOPLE WANT TO
KILL ALL OF US!!!ALL OF US!!! THE TRUTH, YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!!!!!

We have been told that we should not torture because then our enemies will torture our troops...name one, just one, of our enemies that we have gone to war with that did not torture because we didn't....yea, that's what I thought, silence.
Also, if it was your children that these thugs were targeting next, I'll bet my bottom dollar that not only would these liberal think tanks torture these thugs, they would be the ones to hold them under the water! Why should anyone else's son or daughter matter less? Hmmmm...

Water boarding is torture does the US image no good; justifying it is silly.

Problem solved: Move all of the Gitmo prisoners to a compound near Waco, TX and entrust their care to Janet Reno and Bill Clinton.

On retirement send Bush for water boarding. Let him confess aboutIraqi invasion.

GOD SAVE AMERICA AND AMERICANS FROM THEIR PRESIDENTS AND THEIR ADVISORS

The Russians came up with a very cynical phrase, "Torture only hurts if you are guilty"; probably after putting down their revolt in Chechnya. I'm sure that Bush/Cheney and all their torture enablers would be proud to have that as a desk plaque. Remind them that one of our soldiers who was captured along with two others was whipped severely across the back before they shot him and dumped him in the Euphrates River.The other two have still not been found.

Producing the sensation of drowning but causing no adverse physical or psychological effects. Boy, now that sounds like real torture. Not like cutting, physically torturing, beheading American prisoners, then burning them and hanging them from bridges. Then capturing american G.I.s and cutting, torturing and beheading them. The fact that dumb idiotic americans and people who hate us think that the only people it is okay to torture is Americans.
Long live waterboarding!!!!