Another crack in the wall of denial
“Torture” doesn’t ever, ever work. Except, of course, when it does:
President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the harsh interrogation techniques banned by the White House did produce significant information that helped the nation in its struggle with terrorists.
“High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was attacking this country,” Adm. Dennis C. Blair, the intelligence director, wrote in a memo to his staff last Thursday.
Our shiny new Führer doesn’t want this generally known, natch:
Admiral Blair’s assessment that the interrogation methods did produce important information was deleted from a condensed version of his memo released to the media last Thursday. Also deleted was a line in which he empathized with his predecessors who originally approved some of the harsh tactics after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Ed says:
In other words, the Obama administration covered up the fact that even their own DNI acknowledges that the interrogations produced actionable and critical information. When Dick Cheney demanded the release of the rest of the memos relating that information, he wasn’t just going on a fishing expedition. Cheney filed a request to declassify those memos in March, and the CIA has yet to decide on his request, but we can no longer doubt that records exist showing the success of those interrogations.
Well, what it does it matter? We’re not fighting Islamic terrorism anymore, preferring instead to roll over and show our yellow bellies until their fists unclench. That is, until they hit us again — and they will — at which point all the idiots currently screaming about “torture” will be screaming instead about how the horror could possibly have happened again. At which point the sane among us will pause a moment from picking up debris and body parts to bitterly laugh and shake our heads, wondering yet again if our betters on the Left will at last learn from history this time.
And you know as well as I do that they won’t. Here’s more, and yet more, for those of you in the truly reality-based community.
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What better movitation does a young jihadi need than a weak, ignorant, timid and obviously naive adversary? Obama has just served notice that America is open to attack.