Did torture prevent more terrorist attacks? KSM's second wave.
There has been a lot of buzz generated on the recent move by the Obama administration to eliminate enhanced interrogation techniques from the arsenal of the CIA. A premise put forth by the president suggests methodologies bordering on torture are not necessary and inhumane, and furthermore have not been demonstrably linked to any specific preventions. The story becomes interesting when a report from Marc Thiessen (former Bush speech writer) of the Washington Post outlined a chilling attack foiled in 2002 (or later?). The plot was a 9/11 similar style attack using Asian airliners to take down Los Angeles skyscrapers, specifically the Library tower. This plot was supposedly the brainchild of Khalid Shayk Mohammed ( KSM ) and something he referred to as the "second wave", KSM originally wanted to include the Library tower as part of the 9/11 attack, but Osama vetoed the plan as too ambitious. However dealing in the world of murky CIA operatives and highly classified docume