Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says (Full, unedited memo released)

NY Times ^ | 4/21/09 | Peter Baker

[jimbo123]

President Obama’s national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the harsh interrogation techniques banned by the White House did produce significant information that helped the nation in its struggle with terrorists.

“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.

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Admiral Blair’s assessment that the interrogation methods did produce important information was deleted from a condensed version of his memo released to the media last Thursday. Also deleted was a line in which he empathized with his predecessors who originally approved some of the harsh tactics after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

[Jedidah]

I want to read the entire memo.

[My Favorite Headache]

It just gets worse every day with these bastards

[My Favorite Headache]

Something is about to break...and the NYT is getting into CYA mode.

[Miss Didi]

I think the memos are posted here on Karl Rove's website:

Rove.com

[manapua]

Hopefully the odd somnolence of the American public is about to break... What in holy @#$^ is wrong with this country when the executive branch is wringing its hands over the fact that KSM, the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was waterboarded 183 times? Why should we give a damn? That's a few thousand times too few for the bastard.

If I could go back in time and tell any American on 9/12/2001 that 8 years later we'd have a government crying crocodile tears over the treatment of the bastards behind the attacks, I would be called insane.

[headstamp 2]

“Let’s hope upon hope this marks a new era of leaked CIA memos to the press. This time, it needs to sink this bastard in the White House before he destroys this nation.”

You got it. With the “idiot in chief” talking about investigations and possible prosecution, the intelligence community is sh***ing bricks.

In one fell swoop this idiot in the White House has virtually destroyed our intelligence communities.

[Jedidah]

Thanks!

[AFreeBird]

He is such a jerk!

You are being far too kind my friend, far too kind.

[Jedidah]

Oops — the memos on Rove’s website are the ones released by the Obama administration earlier this week. I want to read the one leaked today.

[odin2008]

I said it many times,”obama will kill thousands of Americans”.

[Shady Ray]

Bookmark

[Yardstick]

So much for the leftist argument/lie that rough methods don’t yield any information.

[cdchik123]

I hope to GOD more things come out that make him look bad for this. There has to be some people still there with some Bush loyalties who hate what Obama is doing.

[Shady Ray]

I have the same feeling...just can't tell from what area its coming, foreign policy (so many possibilities) or some type of domestic scandal.

Either way, Obama must be out of his mind trying to pick a fight with these guys, particularly the Dark Lord Cheney...sure, Bush and Rove were docile and overly-gracious during the end of W's presidency, but I can guaran-damn-tee ya that Cheney has a "just in case" file on Soetoro that spans volumes...surely he anticipated this very thing happening once it was clear that the Kenyan would win. Jorge may just want to relax in Crawford for the rest of his days, but Dick will be in it for blood until he crosses to meet St. Peter.

[Chgogal]

“Mr. Obama’s team has cast doubt on the effectiveness of the harsh interrogations, but in a visit to the C.I.A. this week, the president did not directly question that. Instead, he said, any disadvantage imposed by banning those tactics was worth it. “

President Obama, you and your administration OWN the next terrorist attacks.

BTW, Mr. President, calling terrorism “man made disaster” indicates to me your inability to defend this country from enemies both foreign or domestic. You are an unserious man playing with my fellow citizens’ lives. It is obvious that you are NOT worthy of the office you hold. You are a disgrace. You are pathetic. You are puny. Should we, God forbid, be attacked again you and the terrorists will be equally guilty of the murder of my fellow citizens.

[True Republican Patriot]

You are much too polite when referring to this KENYAN Native Born Snakeoil Salesman notoriously referred to as Barry Soetoro, Barak Hussein Obama jr., Barack HUSSEIN Obama (jr.), et al! many of us have given ZERO Hussein a fair chance and in the last 100 days Zero has destroyed any hope of finding some potential redeeming value in this sorry excuse for humanity.

[True Republican Patriot]

AMEN! May Our WONDERFUL GOD SAVE OUR DEAREST AMERICA FROM ALLAH’S Rampages and Evil Messenger(s):-)

[True Republican Patriot]

Baghdad Gibbs, Goebbels Axelshaft and ZERO HUSSEIN deserve No Less than to be Frog Marched down Pennsylvania Avenue from that recently desecrated Office at 1600 PA Avenue to the CAPITAL BUILDING for a National Apology permitted to be carried only on FOX NEWS!

[Chgogal]

BTW, left wing a$$holes, according to your traitorous President Obama and his traitorous lackeys, three Al Qaeda terrorists were water boarded 266 times and they did not die.

Did you left wing weenies ever play keep away on the deep end of a pool and get gut punched on the bottom and still hold on to the ball and fend off the other team? Did you ever play water polo? Did you ever perform water ballet? My guess you effing cowardly POS those three activities are tougher than water boarding.

[annieokie]

Rush did say at one time that when we get control back, we are going to do to them what they have done to us, no more nice. We will investigate until the cows come home, at least I hope that is what our cowards will do. lol.