Full article here.
False Claim 1: The Program was Widely Approved and Legal.
False Claim 2: President Obama and AG Holder have ignored evidence of the program effectiveness.
False Claim 3: These tactics weren't torture because they are used in SERE in the training of our own troops.
False Claim 4: Two of the people who were Waterboarded gave us information that saved American Lives.
False Claime #5: Our Intelligence Gathering and Nation has been hurt by release of these memos.
False Claim #6: The Techniques were limited and carefully controlled
False Claim #7: The Program had Broad-based Support within the Higher-ups of the Administration, including all members of the National Security Council
False Claim #8: These techniques were done to our own people (via S.E.R.E.) and they were not "Tortured".
False Claim #9: Revealing these techniques will allow our enemies to train to withstand them.
False Claim #10: Al Qeada doesn't follow Geneva so why should we?
Also, see Emptywheel on this same story.
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