Spurning Waterboarding, Courting Disaster

American Journalism Center ^ | March 15, 2010 | Sheila Archambault

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Spurning Waterboarding, Courting Disaster

Sheila Archambault, March 15, 2010

The United States is in danger of another 9/11 attack, because the U.S. is no longer focused on capturing, detaining and interrogating the senior leaders of al-Quaida, a former White House senior staff member said at the Heritage Foundation.

Around the same time President Obama was releasing the information about the CIA enhanced interrogation program and eliminated the program, a new terrorist organization was forming called al-Quaida in the Arabian Peninsula, a merger of al-Quaida in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, said Marc Thiessen, author of the book, Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama is Inviting the Next Attack.Thiessen, , a chief speechwriter for President Bush, a member of the White House senior staff and spokesman and policy advisor to the late Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Jesse Helms.

“According to the Obama Administration, after the Christmas Day attack, they had no idea that this transnational terrorist network had ambitions to attack the U.S. or had the capability to attack … yet they almost did,” Thiessen said.

The reason why the U.S. did not see this attack coming is because the U.S. is no longer trying to capture, detain and interrogate the senior al-Quaida leaders, Thiessen added.

He was told intelligence is like putting together a puzzle—all the pieces are laid out on the table, though the picture is covered, Thiessen said.

While one can get the puzzle pieces from many different places, like intercepts of emails, Thiessen said, “The only way to get the picture on the box is to capture the person who drew the picture.”...

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I believe that all terrorists need to be waterbama!