Captured al-Qaeda operatives, facing…torture, appear to have fed the Bush administration’s obsession about Iraq, buying Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders time to rebuild their organization inside nuclear-armed Pakistan. Even now, as al-Qaeda and its Taliban allies expand their power…ex-Bush administration officials continue to insist they protected U.S. security by repeatedly waterboardng… and terrifying..with “extraordinary renditions” to foreign countries known to torture.
