Armed with Ghul's account of the courier's significance, interrogators asked Mohammed again about Kuwaiti. He stuck to his story, according to the official. After Libi was captured in May 2005 and turned over to the CIA, he too was asked. He denied knowing Kuwaiti and gave a different coach bag 2011name for bin Laden's courier; CIA analysts eventually concluded the name was Libi's invention, the official recalled.The CIA has said Libi wasn't waterboarded, and details of his treatment are not known. But anticipating his interrogation, the agency pressured the Justice Department days after his capture for a new set of legal memorandums justifying the most brutal methods.But a closer look at prisoner interrogations suggests that the harsh techniques played a small role at most in identifying bin Laden's trusted courier and exposing his hideout. One detainee who apparently was subjected to some tough treatment provided a crucial description of the courier, according to current and former officials briefed on the interrogations.But two prisoners who underwent some of the harshest treatment — including Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who was waterboarded 183 times — repeatedly misled their interrogators about the courier's identity.Did harsh interrogations yield key intelligence that led to Osama bin Laden's death?As officials disclosed the evidence that led to the compound in Pakistan where bin Laden was hiding, a chorus of Bush administration officials claimed vindication for their policy of "enhanced interrogation techniques" like waterboarding.Among them was John Yoo, a former Justice Department official who wrote secret legal memorandums justifying brutal shop online 2011interrogations."President Obama can take credit, rightfully, for the success today," Yoo wrote Monday in National Review, "but he owes it to the tough decisions taken by the Bush administration."
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