“A [May 30] 2005 top-secret memo by the White House Office of Legal Counsel released by the Obama administration pointed out that [9/11 mastermind] KSM [Khalid Sheikh Mohammed] had only given up his plans for the ‘Second Wave’ of attacks on the United States after he had been subjected to ‘enhanced techniques,’ that is, waterboarding and the like.”
– Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Page 117