The Torturous Logic of Democrats
This is a great contribution by atomheartmother:
Despite the efforts of Democrats to downplay the effectiveness of coercive techniques and to shamelessly criminalize a policy issue for political reasons, the evidence that that these techniques did result in information that saved many American lives is compelling. George Tenet said that the "enhanced interrogation" program yielded more information than everything gotten from "the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency put together." Michael Hayden, CIA director (after waterboarding had been discontinued) wrote that "as late as 2006 . . . fully half of the government's knowledge about the structure and activities of al-Qaeda came from those interrogations." Indeed, even Obama's own director of national intelligence, Dennis Blair, admits that these interrogations yielded "high value information."
The problem for the left is twofold. As the Obama administration pandered to its far left base by releasing the "torture memos," they opened a Pandora's Box. While sticking to the "torture is wrong and it doesn't work anyway" theme, they've ignored the evidence to the contrary- at least on the second point- because the information about what was gleaned from these techniques was redacted from the memos that were released. Cheney knew this, and had the stones and public recognition to make a difference when he pointed out that if we're going to reveal what techniques were used, we need to also release information about what was learned from these techniques.
The second problem is that whether or not these practices were legal or justified, it's becoming clear that Congress was informed and consulted every step of the way, so the high-ranking Democrats who shamelessly attempted to assume the moral high ground are backpedaling furiously, and have been exposed as complicit hypocrites- case in point, the plight of the Speaker of the House, who's self-righteous condemnations have been revealed to be not just cowardly but hollow as well.
Obama could release the "rest of the story" with a wave of his hand, but he's not inclined to do. The administration is politically astute enough to realize that if even more compelling evidence emerges that enhanced interrogation methods resulted in saving thousands of lives, the vast majority of Americans are going to overwhelmingly say that it made sense to use them, and that's why he's blocking release of this information. Unfortunately for the president, he wasn’t politically astute enough to understand that by releasing only the techniques and not the results, the firestorm of debate on the matter is not going to just go away like they'd hoped.
The use of coercive techniques and what was gained from their use is a national security matter on which thousands, perhaps millions of American lives may depend. The left has politicized this issue, and gained political power by doing so. We as a nation are entitled to full disclosure and a true national debate on this issue. It is now clear that the Obama Administration does not want this, but because of their own actions, they're not going to be able to avoid it. They wanted it, they got it, and this is an issue that's not going away. In the end, it's going to be a BIG winner for the Republicans, and provide a much-deserved vindication for former President Bush and his policies.
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