I still don’t agree that waterboarding is torture (Moonbats have been seen doing it multiple times to each other. Also see the real torture that’s been inflicted on our troops over the years.), but he makes a good point. Waterboarding is necessary.

A leader of the CIA team that captured and interrogated the first major al Qaeda figure, Abu Zubaydah, says subjecting him to waterboarding was torture but necessary.

In the first public comment by any CIA officer involved in handling high-value al Qaeda targets, John Kiriakou, now retired, said the technique broke Zubaydah in less than 35 seconds.

“The next day, he told his interrogator that Allah had visited him in his cell during the night and told him to cooperate,” said Kiriakou in an interview to be broadcast tonight on ABC News’ “World News With Charles Gibson” and “Nightline.”

Oh, come on now. How crucial could that information possibly have been? I mean…

“From that day on, he answered every question,” Kiriakou said. “The threat information he provided disrupted a number of attacks, maybe dozens of attacks.”…

“What happens if we don’t waterboard a person, and we don’t get that nugget of information, and there’s an attack,” Kiriakou said. “I would have trouble forgiving myself.”

Let’s see what’s more important: My family’s safety or al Qaeda member Abu Zubaydah’s comfort…hmm.