Discussion for article #231085
From two days ago:
"He argued that the CIA’s interrogation methods did produce useful intelligence.
“Our review indicates that interrogations of detainees on whom EITs [enhanced interrogation techniques] were used did produce intelligence that helped thwart attack plans, capture terrorists, and save lives. The intelligence gained from the program was critical to our understanding of al-Qa’ida and continues to inform our counterterrorism efforts to this day,” he said."
OK, so–they told us a bunch of useful stuff. Maybe the torture helped. We’ll never really know. So let’s fuggedaboudit.
Let us rid the national stage of John Brennan.
So, the practical benefits of interrogation techniques that we know for certain will cause our enemies to hate us even more, that we know for certain bring shame to every American citizen on the planet, that we know for certain are morally and ethically wrong, are “unknown and unknowable”.
But it’s all good. Because 9/11.
his public explanation — a rarity
Not to be a pill but ‘once’ seems less than ‘infrequent’ or ‘not very often’.