Is the war on terror really over? If not, he may be the best man to lead it.
As the Obama administration moves toward prosecuting intelligence agents for allegedly overzealous questioning of terrorists in the months following the 9/11 attacks, the Washington Post delivers a timely reminder of why those methods were thought necessary.
"KSM, an accomplished resistor, provided only a few intelligence reports prior to the use of the waterboard, and analysis of that information revealed that much of it was outdated, inaccurate or incomplete," according to newly unclassified portions of a 2004 report by the CIA's then-inspector general released Monday by the Justice Department.
The debate over the effectiveness of subjecting detainees to psychological and physical pressure may be morally irresolvable, but the evidence is clear: Mohammed cooperated, and to an extraordinary extent, only when his spirit was broken in the month after his capture March 1, 2003, as the inspector general's report and other documents released this week indicate. " [snip]
Our guess, however, is that Cheney overstates when he says "so many Americans have doubts." We'd venture that for most people the Obama administration's see-no-evil approach is comforting. After years of fear and vigilance, it's nice to be able to relax and not worry so much about terrorism.
It's nice--but dangerous...
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