Sword and Sextant

Valuable information was obtained.

One of the biggest bugbears of the Left over the waterboarding program is that it supposedly doesn’t work. Well, Admiral Blair tends to disagree with that. Here’s a shot of molten truth:

“High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was attacking this country,” Adm. Dennis C. Blair, the intelligence director, wrote in a memo to his staff last Thursday.

There is a real debate out there as to whether we should do anything like this to anyone to save American lives. However, when the Guvamint is saying that it was successful whilst using such methods, we can hopefully at least put this to bed. Those enhanced techniques worked, according to those at the top.

Maybe now we can debate (calmly) the choice to do this rather than the fantasy that they don’t work anyhow.