"when the full story of the long war against terrorism is told, we will learn that detaining and interrogating enemy combatants was a critical tool in winning the war. indeed, we have found that when we released gitmo detainees, many of them went back to the battlefield. there are already reports that detainees through lawful interrogations provided key intelligence cues that helped tracked down bin laden. cia director leon panetta told nbc news yesterday that “enhanced interrogation techniques“ were used to extract information that led to the mission’s success."
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