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Hard to say because the Bush Administration did not give details on information they got from torture that prevented terrorist attacks and didn't list any inacc

Hard to say because the Bush Administration did not give details on information they got from torture that prevented terrorist attacks and didn't list any inaccurate information they got that was false because the person being tortured gave any info to make the torture stop. We know that terrorist attacks on US soil stopped, but it might not be due to torture getting information, it may be due to the fact that terrorists use social networks and our military was able to obtain the info in the Middle-East when raiding terrorist buildings and recovering computer equipment. They could have just data mined social network accounts used by terrorists and gotten the data off hard drives with lists of bank accounts and people who are being paid to do terrorist attacks. I think when the Obama administration killed Osama bin Laden they raided his hard drives from his servers and computers and got a lot of information off of them. More than one could get from torture. So there are other methods of getting information that are more effective than torture. We also have the NSA Metadata program and Prism system of collecting information. While many consider it a violation of rights and privacy, it might have collected a lot of information used to prevent terrorist attacks. Still these methods are unpopular with the people, torture, domestic spying, etc.

yellowapple 11y ago
> We know that terrorist attacks on US soil stopped Except they didn't. At most, they shifted from organized plots (like that of 9/11) to less-organized events (like that of the Boston Marathon bombing).
- orionblastar 11y ago
  You have a point but the Al Qaeda and terrorist networks didn't do the Boston Bombing it was two brothers acting alone. The Islamic shooters were lone wolves. No ties to terrorist networks. They weren't organized by terrorist networks but they were terrorism.

yellowapple 11y ago

> We know that terrorist attacks on US soil stopped Except they didn't. At most, they shifted from organized plots (like that of 9/11) to less-organized events (like that of the Boston Marathon bombing).

orionblastar 11y ago
You have a point but the Al Qaeda and terrorist networks didn't do the Boston Bombing it was two brothers acting alone. The Islamic shooters were lone wolves. No ties to terrorist networks. They weren't organized by terrorist networks but they were terrorism.