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Wait am I dumb? The tip that led to Bin laden in the movie had nothing to do with interrogation program, right?
by wmeredith 11y ago
Wait am I dumb? The tip that led to Bin laden in the movie had nothing to do with interrogation program, right?
- chrisbennet 11y agoA Pakistani intelligence guy tipped the US off for the reward. Neither torture nor diligent work by NSA or CIA was responsible for locating Bin Laden. That wouldn't make a very good movie though. From Wikipedia: In August 2010, a former Pakistani intelligence officer approached the U.S. embassy station chief in Islamabad and offered to provide Bin Laden's location, in return for the $25 million reward, according to a retired senior U.S. intelligence official.[17] This story was corroborated by two U.S. intelligence officials speaking to NBC news, and had been previously reported by intelligence analyst Raelynn Hillhouse.[18][19] The Pakistani official informed U.S. intelligence that Bin Laden had been located by Pakistani ISI in 2006, and held under house arrest near Pakistani intelligence and military centers ever since. The official passed polygraph tests, after which the U.S. began local and satellite surveillance of Bin Laden's Abbottabad residence.[17]
- rmc 11y agoThe US also set up a vaccination centre that collected and analyzed DNA of people they vaccinationed in order to confirm that Bin Laden's family (and hence Bin Laden himself) were in there. The downside of this is clear, "Foreign vaccination centres are really CIA spying stations!" is now no longer a conspiracy theory, but something that actually happened.
- chrisbennet 11y agoI wonder if that little project will (by making people avoid vaccines) eventually kill more innocents than the drone program?