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I just saw a clip of Rep. Peter King mouthing what seems like a pretty popular emotional argument in favor of waterboarding and, no doubt, any other type of so-called enhanced interrogation technique. It's an emotional argument without much logic or real forethought and it presents a false choice.
Rep. King pre-9/11, September 10, 2001 scenario:
If it's the day before 9/11 and we have a terrorist in custody then we should be able to and ready to use waterboarding to save lives.
(1) Even if you believe KSM made a direct statement or admission that help lead to the death of OBL (I've heard a report that said that wasn't the case; KSM was reportedly "deceptive", interrogators knew he was lying and were able to tell they were on to something), you would have to figure out a way to cram 183 waterboarding sessions (in KSM's case) in that one day along with all fitting all the intelligence puzzle pieces together in that 24 hour time frame which was absolutely NOT what happened in the real world.
(2) You would have to be confident that the terrorist wouldn't hold out long enough in that 24 hour time crunch for it to be too late to act on any confession. Even more, you'd have to be confident the terrorist doesn't have a suicide bomber/martydom mentality.
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