All That Waterboarding

was about their need to prove a connection between Iraq and AQ. From McClatchy, which will probably go under soon. RIP good journalism.

McClatchy reports that, "for most of 2002 and into 2003, Cheney and Rumsfeld, especially, were...demanding proof of the links between al Qaida and Iraq...(former Iraqi exile leader Ahmed) Chalabi" and these techniques were seen as the quickest way to make the connection.