[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 10711]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           WATER SAVES LIVES

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, what do six terrorist attacks, Gitmo, 
dead Americans, and Khalid Sheik Mohammed--also known as KSM--have in 
common? Waterboarding.
  Last week, several top secret national security papers were released 
to the public. We learned from these documents that waterboarding is 
apparently saving American lives. After being waterboarded numerous 
times at Gitmo, KSM, the killer responsible for planning 9/11, started 
talking. He told the CIA about plans to hijack an airplane and crash it 
into a skyscraper in Los Angeles and kill Americans. He disclosed the 
17-member terrorist cell charged with executing that plan. He also 
exposed plans of another terrorist cell in New York plotting to destroy 
the Brooklyn Bridge.
  The enhanced interrogation encouraged KSM to disclose information by 
naming the ringleaders of four other terrorist attacks. Americans are 
alive because this individual was doused in water.
  Terrorists are not victims. The only victims are thousands of people 
who have died at the hands of these outlaws. The CIA interrogators have 
saved American lives by baptizing these criminals in water.
  And that's just the way it is.

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