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Summary Leon Panetta says no detainee revealed the name of the courier who unknowingly led to Osama.
CIA chief Leon Panetta wrote a private letter to Senator John McCain that offers the most detailed answer yet to questions about the relationship between torture and Osama Bin Laden’s death — and undercuts the claim by former Bush administration officials that torture was key to Bin Laden’s killing.Last week, Senator McCain wrote an article in a US paper in which he claimed that torture was instrumental in tracking down Bin Laden.Panetta wrote in his letter that instead of torture, other intelligence sources were used for locating Osama.
