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George Tenet: 'Aggressive Interrogation' Saved Lives
Former CIA Director George Tenet said the "aggressive interrogations” of top al-Qaida leaders brought the U.S. more valuable information about planned terror plots than all of the government's other intelligence gathering efforts. Tenet said the interrogation program was necessary to deal with threats that emerged after 9/11, including reports that there might be nuclear bombs in New York City, the New York Sun reports. "I know that this program has saved lives. I know we've disrupted plots," Tenet said in a "60 Minutes" interview set to air Sunday, before the release of his new book "At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA.” "I know this program alone is worth more than the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency put together have been able to tell us.”
Story Continues Below Tenet led the CIA between 1997 and 2004. He declined to discuss the specific interrogation techniques, but they reportedly included waterboarding, which involves pouring water over a prisoner's face to create the sensation of drowning. Some human-rights groups maintain that waterboarding is torture and amounts to a mock execution. But Tenet told CBS: "We don't torture people.
"The context is it's post-September 11. I've got reports of nuclear weapons in New York City, apartment buildings that are going to be blown up, planes that are going to fly into airports all over again, plot lines that I don't know . . . I'm struggling to find out where the next disaster is going to occur."
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