Now that Bush administration officials have launched a major campaign to persuade us that torture “worked,” perhaps it’s worth recalling that George W. Bush’s own FBI director said in an interview last year that he wasn’t aware of a single planned terror attack on America that had been foiled by information obtained through torture.
Robert Mueller, who was appointed by Bush in 2001 and remains FBI director under Obama, delivered that assessment at the end of this December 2008 article in Vanity Fair on torture:
I ask Mueller: So far as he is aware, have any attacks on America been disrupted thanks to intelligence obtained through what the administration still calls “enhanced techniques”?
“I’m really reluctant to answer that,” Mueller says. He pauses, looks at an aide, and then says quietly, declining to elaborate: “I don’t believe that has been the case.”
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Originally Posted by Yonivore
I pray to God President Obama is never faced with the decision of having to employ such techniques -- now knowing they work -- to thwart a major terror attack on this country.
Torture or not, illegal or not, liberal or conservative...the American Public will never forgive him if it finds out he had the means to extract actionable intelligence and because of some silly rhetoric he failed to act.
Sure, the people are predisposed to give up their liberties at the drop of a hat.
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Yonivore
Just Right of Atilla the Hun
Pfft. Atilla would have fit in quite well with Benito, Adolf, Leon, Vladimir, and Joseph.
Stop fouling conservatism with your presence.
04-24-2009
Nbadan
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