"How could Sheikh Mohammed's water-boarded confession have prevented the Library Tower attack if the Bush administration "broke up" that attack during the previous year?"

They couldn't. They're lying. But watch the dead-enders come out to defend another Bush failure.

After they forced the details of the plot from KSM, they used the gravity of the sun to sling the Enterprise faster than the speed of light. This put a team of highly trained CIA agents in place in 1985, where they were able to wait until 2002 and thwart the plot. While waiting, they were also able to assists Jack Bauer and Sarah Conner in their efforts to defeat SkyNet and prevent Judgement Day.

Were these the same people went back in time to fraudulently alter Pres. Obama's birth certificate?