Memo to Obama: Banned Techniques WORKED!!

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/p...as-intel-chief-really-believes-about-torture/

What Obama's Intel Chief Believes About Torture

// The stakes in the torture debate just shot up dramatically with the revelation last night that Obama’s intelligence chief, Dennis Blair, wrote a memo saying torture had yielded some “high value information.” //

// So here’s the question: Will the media clearly report Blair’s actual views about torture? //

// Blair released a statement late yesterday in which he clearly stated that there is no way of knowing whether means other than torture would have obtained the same info. More important, he said the damage done to us by torture “far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security.” Blair has outlined these views elsewhere. //

IMHO, this debate cannot be 'won' by data mining to get 'favorable quotes'.
Maybe we could get better results by torturing a couple of admins?

 

ED, you need to get your facts straight, Blair did not mention torture. Your source, a Washington Post blog is not credible.

The Weekly Standard
Who's Politicizing Intelligence Now?

Admiral Dennis Blair, the top intelligence official in the United States, thanks to his nomination by Barack Obama, believes that the coercive interrogation methods outlawed by his boss produced "high-value information" and gave the U.S. government a "deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country." He included those assessments in a letter distributed inside the intelligence community last Thursday, the same day Obama declassified and released portions of Justice Department memos setting out guidelines for those interrogations.

That letter from Blair served as the basis for a public statement that his office put out that same day. But the DNI's conclusions about the results of coercive interrogations--in effect, that they worked--were taken out of Blair's public statement. A spokesman for the DNI told the New York Times that the missing material was cut for reasons of space, though the statement would be posted on DNI's website, where space doesn't seem to be an issue.

 

I guess the Bush administration can never prove this because everything they did was "classified." I'd like to see some proof. I don't think any exists.

 

All Czar obama has to do is release the documents showing how many terrorist plots were revealed by the terrorists. But he won't because it would defeat his purpose to damage this country.

 

Better a wet terrorist than a dead American.