Posted on 04/22/2009 10:19:10 AM PDT by fiscon1
President Barack Obama’s attempt to project legal and moral clarity on coercive CIA interrogation methods has instead done the opposite — creating confusion and political vulnerability over an issue that has inflamed both the left and right.
In the most recent instance, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair acknowledged in a memo to the intelligence community that Bush-era interrogation practices yielded had "high-value information,” then omitted that admission from a public version of his assessment.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Tortured memories and memos: Obama's and Clinton's lawyers are just as 'guilty'
Blair: Congress Approved CIA Interrogations
Obama’s DNI reminds Obama that “enhanced interrogation” worked
Excerpt:
Barack Obama’s top man in the intelligence community sent the President a memo defending the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, which the White House edited before releasing to the press de-emphasizing that defense.
Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says (Full, unedited memo released)
“Bush-era interrogation practices yielded “high-value information,”......
Obama-era interrogation practices will yield “dead Americans”.....
Zero needs to stfu.
He is going to get thousands killed.
120 days in and this disaster just keeps on down his clueless path.
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