Do yourself a favor and listen to a segment from the Adam Carolla podcast. He interviews a man named James E. Mitchell. Mr. Mitchell wrote a book entitled: "Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorists Trying To Destroy America".
Mr. Mitchell is a psychologist who served in the Air Force before and after getting is psychology education. he was the chief of psychology at the Air Force survival school at Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, Washington. Mitchell supervised the trainers who role-played as enemy interrogators for military personnel going through Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training. After leaving the Air Force, he was asked by CIA to develop an interrogation program based on what were believed to be al-Qaeda documents on resisting interrogation. Mitchell recommended use of SERE counter-interrogation training, reverse-engineered to obtain intelligence from captives. Mitchell was later reported to have personally waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Here is a short summary of the interview:
If you don't have iTunes, you can listen here. The pertinent part is from 14:55 through 44:00.
Grant Imahara and James Mitchell
He talks extensively about what kind of information he got from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (a lot), how effective "enhanced interrogation" was (very), what it actually is (not what you may think) and about thwarted terrorist attacks including 9/11 style attacks on L.A., Seattle and Chicago, a dirty bomb, and a plan to bomb several gas stations up and down the east coast. He also relates that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed couldn'r believe that GWB actually took the fight to them and that this greatly hampered, and scared, the terrorists. He also stated that KSM told him that America's political correctness is what the terrorists are counting on to infiltrate and eventually attack.
https://www.amazon.com/Enhanced-Interrogation-Motives-Islamic-Terrorists/dp/1101906847
Mr. Mitchell is a psychologist who served in the Air Force before and after getting is psychology education. he was the chief of psychology at the Air Force survival school at Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane, Washington. Mitchell supervised the trainers who role-played as enemy interrogators for military personnel going through Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training. After leaving the Air Force, he was asked by CIA to develop an interrogation program based on what were believed to be al-Qaeda documents on resisting interrogation. Mitchell recommended use of SERE counter-interrogation training, reverse-engineered to obtain intelligence from captives. Mitchell was later reported to have personally waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
Here is a short summary of the interview:
If you don't have iTunes, you can listen here. The pertinent part is from 14:55 through 44:00.
Grant Imahara and James Mitchell
He talks extensively about what kind of information he got from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (a lot), how effective "enhanced interrogation" was (very), what it actually is (not what you may think) and about thwarted terrorist attacks including 9/11 style attacks on L.A., Seattle and Chicago, a dirty bomb, and a plan to bomb several gas stations up and down the east coast. He also relates that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed couldn'r believe that GWB actually took the fight to them and that this greatly hampered, and scared, the terrorists. He also stated that KSM told him that America's political correctness is what the terrorists are counting on to infiltrate and eventually attack.
https://www.amazon.com/Enhanced-Interrogation-Motives-Islamic-Terrorists/dp/1101906847
I'll give it a listen when I'm more awake.
