The Swamp's Silva carrying water for the administration again, as our President, overruling his CIA head and 4 previous ones, betrays us to al Qaeda. I think this comment in response to Silva is apt:
This waterboarding (and interrogations in general) is performed to abtain intelligence - not for the goal of punishing. and certainly not for the sheer hell of it.
Secondly, why are we oh-so concerned about the comfort and well being of people who operate wholly outide the law and the Geneva convention, who would cheerfully murder us all in the most gruesome ways?
the ONLY reason to keel these people alive is to extract intelligence from them. Otherwise, they have no business breathing.
And please consider this, The Memos Prove We Didn't Torture:
The actual intelligence benefits of the CIA program are also detailed in these memos. The CIA believed, evidently with good reason, that the enhanced interrogation program had indeed produced actionable intelligence about al Qaeda's plans. First among the resulting successes was the prevention of a "second wave" of al Qaeda attacks, to be carried out by an "east Asian" affiliate, which would have involved the crashing of another airplane into a building in Los Angeles.
The interrogation techniques described in these memos are indisputably harsh, but they fall well short of "torture." They were developed and deployed at a time of supreme peril, as a means of preventing future attacks on innocent civilians both in the U.S. and abroad.
NY Post, Tone Deaf on Terror.
So who will keep us safe now? Anyone want to stick their neck out?
It's hard to turn the other cheek when al Qaeda will cut off your head.
More: Powerline on the Obama admin review of Gitmo detainees:
Our new Facebook friends.According to Babbin, the inter-agency panel found that the Ughurs weren't "the ignorant, innocent goatherds the White House believed them to be." The committee determined they were too dangerous to release because they were members of the ETIM terrorist group, the "East Turkistan Islamic Movement," and because their presence at the al-Queda training camp was no accident (realistically, how could it have been).
Babbin's sources in the Defense Department say that "the White House legal office has told the inter-agency review group to re-do their findings to come up with the opposite answer."
Would anyone be surprised if, indeed, the Obama administration is overruling the intelligence community in order to implement preconceived policy preferences?
