You might think I’m stepping out of bounds on this one, but since it does involve intelligence and intelligence gathering, I will add my two cents. Ninety-eight more and we’ll have a dollar.
I was watching MSNBC’s Hardball today, and listened to Bob Baer, a former CIA officer, and Cliff Maye, from the Foundation for Defense of Democracy, debate whether water-boarding should ever be used. Both argued good points.
Personally, I think water-boarding is torture. I am against it under any circumstances because it produces only answers the water-boarders want to hear. People being water-boarded will say anything to it stop.
With this in mind, I would like to pose a question: Did the Bush Administration water-board to gather the intelligence they wanted to hear; i.e. that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction?
I have yet to hear someone ask this question. I’d love to see an independent commission investigate what intelligence was gathered by what methods of interrogation. 
Roofman The Spy's Blog 
Great question. That’s how research works: propose your hypothesis and then go about proving it. We all tend to see the world through our particular tunnel visions. History has proved just what a dark tunnel it was.
Come on – what’s a little water between friends?
If anyone wants to know what it’s like – swim under water then do a barrel roll so that you face is looking towards the surface – you might want to have someone watch you because it can produce a near drowning event – quite a moment.
Yep, it’s torture – fear of death counts.
My biggest problem with water-boarding isn’t the fact that it is torture — which leaves our service personnel at risk. What concerns me more is: Did the government use W-Bing to get the answers they wanted? That’s why I’d like an investigation.
Roofman The Spy
I don’t think the Bush administration had to go those lengths, i.e., waterboarding, to get the answers they wanted. They just had to ask the right people. Easy peasy.