How A Cowboy’s Policies Helped A Community Organizer Nab Osama Bin Laden

What techniques, you may wonder, were used to gain the intelligence necessary to find Bin Laden? Enhanced interrogation, of course.

You read that right. Some of these “twisted,” “brutal,” “disastrous” techniques, put crucial pieces of evidence in the hands of our military, helping lead them to Osama bin Laden.

The links between terror detainees and bin Laden in Pakistan were made through the discovery of the terror leader’s personal courier. The Right Sphere explains how the connections were made:

The information about this courier was apparently corroborated by intel obtained from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed during enhanced interrogation.

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The other detainee…who gave up the intel on the courier was Abu Faraj al-Libi who was captured in 2005 and eventually wound up at Gitmo. Al-Libi took over KSM’s spot at Al-Qaeda after KSM was captured. …[Al-Libi] wasn’t subjected to enhanced interrogation. KSM was – in 2003, but not at Gitmo – prior to al-Libi’s arrest.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques eight years ago, which ultimately led authorities to Osama bin Laden’s personal courier. From there, our military was able to get to Bin Laden. Simply put, none of what went down on May 1 would have been possible without the dreaded enhanced interrogation.

There are those, particularly on the Left, who tend to forget that we’re still at war, though not necessarily in a traditional sense. The War on Terror didn’t end with the liberation of Iraq or with the emergence of freedom in Afghanistan, and it certainly doesn’t end with the death of Osama bin Laden. It’s a long struggle against an enemy whose only language is barbarism and violence. So it’s no surprise that techniques which come across as barbaric actually yield pivotal information from members of terrorist organizations.

The Left needs to understand that decisions like the one to employ enhanced interrogation techniques are best made not by politicians, bureaucrats, or theoreticians, but by the members of the intelligence community and the military who are prosecuting this war. If they remember that one fact, we just might be able to win this war sooner rather than later.
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Chris Queen hails from Covington, GA. Check out his blog, Random Thoughts From The Revolution, and follow him on Twitter.

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