The "no torture" bill going through congress needs to be killed immediately. I personally don't care how we extract information from these terrorist thugs and murderers as long as we are getting results.
It was because of the counter-terrorism restrictions imposed during the Carter and Clinton administrations that we're in the situation now. Carter made sure the intelligence communities couldn't take to each other. Then Clinton made sure that during counter-terrorism "investigations" the agents couldn't talk to "dirty people". (I'm somewhat paraphrasing)
I know this from personal experience ...