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Argument: It's not clear that waterboarding obtained good information from Khalid Sheik Mohammed
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- "Waterboarding Is Torture, Says Ex-Navy Instructor". Washington Post. November 9, 2007 - "Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) contended at the hearing that sometimes severe techniques need to be used in emergencies and against the nation's top enemies, such as Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks' alleged architect, who was subjected to waterboarding in CIA custody. Franks said that Mohammed experienced just 90 seconds of waterboarding and gave up important information about al-Qaeda.
- Nance [a counterterrorism specialist who taught at the Navy's Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) school in California] disputed Franks's assessment, saying that Mohammed probably knew how to resist and gave up information that would appear to be a 'gold mine' to his interrogators but instead was "trash" for him and al-Qaeda."