Does the CIA actually have successful cases?
The CIA has successful cases all the time. Most of them are secret. The fact that 5000 terrorists have been rolled up since 9-11 are all due to the CIA and the FBI's cases. Plots have been stopped by the CIA. The CIA obtained from Obusa Vada information about future plots about other terrorist that were then rolled up. The CIA used what they call coercive tactics. They were not torture, but they were things like water boarding or putting them in cold places. They generally don't do that now because there's no feeling that there's an eminent attack, and there was back then. But these are all techniques that the CIA has used to get information from terrorists.