The New York Times Gets Basic Facts about KSM Wrong

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In its editorial denouncing the Obama administration’s decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his 9/11 co-conspirators before a military tribunal, instead of a federal court, the New York Times writes:

Mr. Mohammed was subject to waterboard torture 183 times — after, his interrogators have said, he gave up all the useful information he had. 

This is not true. In fact, the New York Times reported in 2008 on the “successes” a CIA interrogator named Deuce Martinez had in questioning KSM. Here is how the Times described it (emphasis added):

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