blame. The visit follows comments by a former CIA chief who said the memos would limit its ability to pursue terrorists. It has been revealed that two al-Qaeda suspects were waterboarded 266 times. Quoting one of the memos, The New York Times said Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed planner of the 9/11 attacks, was subjected to the technique MBT shoes clearance, which simulates drowning, 183 times. The method was used on another suspect, Abu Zubaydah MBT Shoes Australia, at least 83 times. BBC defence and security correspondent Rob Watson says this contrasts starkly with previous accounts given by US intelligence sources that implied both men told all after only the briefest exposure to the technique. The new information could hardly have emerged at a more sensitive time for President Obama, our correspondent says. CIA applauded and cheered at Mr Obama's appearanceCIA 'still exposed' Though highly critical during his election campaign of the CIA's methods, he adds, since coming to office Mr Obama has been anxious to boost morale at the agency and to draw a line under the controversies of its recent past. The former head of the CIA, Michael Hayden, who ran the agency under President George W Bush, said CIA staff might still be open to congressional probes or civil actions by those subjected to the methods. There will be more revelations. There will be more commissions. There will be more investigations, he told Fox News network on Sunday longchamp sale, And this to an agency ... that is at war and is on the front lines of defending America.Gen Hayden added that the release of the memos would make it more difficult to get useful information from suspected terrorists. I think that teaching our enemies our outer limits, by taking techniques off the table, we have made it more difficult in a whole host of circumstances I can imagine, more difficult for CIA officers to defend the nation, he said. He also denied that such methods were ineffective. The facts of the case are that the use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work, h Related articles:

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