# Did waterboarding help kill Bin Laden? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 2, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-waterboarding-help-kill-bin-laden/580487 "2011-05-02T16:54:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![G-SE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f0a364/32.png) [@G-SE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G-SE)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-waterboarding-help-kill-bin-laden/580487/1 "2011-05-02T16:54:38Z")
It is now being [reported](http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-osama-bin-laden-cia-20110502,0,6466214.story) that crucial information used to find and kill Bin Laden was obtained by Khalid Shaikh Mohamed, who was waterboarded during interrogation at Guantanamo Bay. > [@](#): > > Crucial information about the trusted courier who owned the compound came years ago from CIA interrogations of 9-11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohamed, the official said. This is significant, because the Al Qaeda mastermind was subject to waterboarding and other brutal interrogation methods. > > “We were able to get pieces of information from detainees,” the official said. “That took years and these guys don’t give it up all willingly.” Although the CIA official does not say specifically that this specific intel came from the waterboarding sessions, he does imply that enhanced interrogation methods were used to obtain it. If this is true\*, and you are/were against waterboarding and/or “enhanced interrogation methods”, does this change your outlook? Do you still claim that it doesn’t result in any truthful intel? - This is the only article I could find with an actual quote from a US official regarding this, but there are several that hint at this direction. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-waterboarding-help-kill-bin-laden/580487)._