Posted on 05/03/2011 2:20:29 PM PDT by jeltz25
Never mind all that! Ghul didn’t help them discover any WMD in Iraq, so the entire war was unjustified and led to the murder of Osama bin Laden. Bush lied! Who died!
From the article:
“Then there was the matter of WikiLeaks. Just weeks before Sunday night’s raid, the whistleblower website had published a tranche of new secret documents.
These made reference to named ‘couriers’ carrying Bin Laden’s message to his followers, and also to Abbottabad as a possible Al Qaeda bolthole.
There was a real risk that Bin Laden would flee once again, thwarting U.S. attempts to capture or kill him.”
I really hope that Julian Assange is captured, tried as an enemy combatant and executed.
Yeah, the Obama Administration is claiming that a guy who hadn’t given up any information before being waterboarded later decided to give up the nom de guerre of the courier while under more standard interrogation, and the waterboarding had *nothing* to do with it. Could you imagine this argument being made by policemen in a court of law? “We beat the suspect to a bloody pulp and killed his child in front of him, but he didn’t admit his guilt until after we asked him again 5 minutes later, so it wasn’t a coerced confession.”
Waterboarding worked, and without it we would not have been able to locate Osama bin Laden.
For future reference.
There’s been a message sent out by the liberal elites ordering all lib talking heads, media flacks, pols, and general lib nutjobs to deny Bush or Gitmo intel had anything to do with finding and killing OBL. Give the evil, torturer Bush credit for anything?...uh,uh no can do. Obama did it ALL BY HIMSELF!!! In fact, I think Obama thinks he created himself.
#19: Re “Mosaic of sources.” Holder probably meant “MOSSAD” as a source but he forgot the words and scrambled them up.
Okay, stretching it a bit but you never know.
When I was in Vietnam as a journalist, I had a meeting with senior No. Vietnamese commanders who had defected (ranks in mynotebook show Major, Colonel, General). Out of a hour’s talk, I was able to learn of an event in No. Vietnam in 1965 that even our intelligence people had never heard of (it concerned a mild political protest that was crushed but was, in hindsight, one of Ho’s attempts to establish complete control over the North before he started to send large amounts of PAVN regulars to invade the South via the Ho Chi Minh Trail). From this item, our side learned of more unrest in the North that they had not previously known about (it is still classified as far as I know).
The secret of being a good interrogator (I’ve met some of the best during my Police Science program) and the secret of being a good journalist is to ask a question no one has asked before or thought to ask before. You’d be amazed at what people will tell you when asked. The secret to it all is to ask.
Our on-the-ground intell guys are really good. It gets screwed up the higher it goes up a conventional thinking chain of command. The FBI reports from field agents on Arabs taking pilot training in Arizona and Minnesota were sloughed off on the way up and it gave us 9/11.
We ought a great thanks to those guys who kept their eyes and ears open, and did their job the way it should be done - professionally, thoroughly, determinedly, intelligently.
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