Posted on 08/31/2009 8:06:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
On a Saturday morning in late August, while country was away on summer vacation and those who closely watch politics were watching Ted Kennedy's funeral, the Washington Post quietly hung up the mainstream media's white flag on the CIA's harsh interrogation tactics. It turns out, they work — who knew?
Fortunately, Steve Hayes has stayed on the case and, at the Standard's blog, he's got the story about the story — along with excerpts from the essential report by FDD's Tom Joscelyn (also in the Standard, here) relating the effectiveness of the CIA program and an important op-ed by FDD's Reuel Marc Gerecht (in the Wall Street Journal, here) about the devastating consequences of the Obama administration's decision to investigate the CIA over interrogation practices. My own assessments of the legal meritlessness of the case against the interrogators and the reasons why it is being persued anyway by President Obama and Attorney General Holder are here and here.
As they say, you're entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts. The MSM has tried to have both for the last five years, arguing against experience and common sense that tactics like sleep-deprivation and waterboarding were not effective. Clearly, they worked, and to great effect. As Steve says, that case should now be closed.
Obviously, there is still a principled argument to be made that the nation should not engage in such practices. But the burden of making it in a principled way should be to say: "While this is an excruciating choice, it would be better for thousands of Americans to be killed than to allow the CIA to use non-lethal coercive tactics (that cause no lasting physical or mental damage) on a terrorist who refuses to tell us what he knows about ongoing mass-murder plots."
Video: John McCain’s Push Back Against Cheney: “Interrogations Violated Law”
Related and equally worthy item:
....this weekend we watched the DVD “Taken” starring Liam Neelson as an ex-CIA agent....I found myself cheering his “enhanced” techniques as he had his daughter’s kidnappers begging for mercy.
Of course these techniques work. Why else do you think the Democrats and the liberal elitists, who hate freedom and democracy, want to see them abolished?
I dont see any prosecutions in the future. This is just candy to the progressives who Obama has to talk into a health reform compromise, giving up single payer, and now give up the public plan. This is crumbs so MSNBC can get off of democrat failure story every day.
Maybe not but having a republican president representing conservatism (like it or not) promoted by conservative talk radio in the general election calling it crimes, would have been even worse. This is bad enough as it is.
While the republican party is a huge disappointment, it still represents things the democrat party does not. So when you pick the wrong republican, it can have the opposite effect of democrats picking the wrong democrat, like Pelosi/Obama
Case Closed. Waterboarding and other interrogation techniques work, and they are NOT brutal “torture”. We must continue to use them when needed to save the lives of our citizens.
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“Case Closed. Waterboarding and other interrogation techniques work, and they are NOT brutal “torture”. We must continue to use them when needed to save the lives of our citizens.”
...exactly!...even Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz...one of the biggest Lefties in the academy advocated harsh interrogation to save lives.
The next president actually born in America should be awarding Steve Hayes a Medal of Freedom. He deserves it.
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