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Originally Posted by RIROCKHOUND
we don't read the RIGHT news, thats the problem.
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NY Times OK for you?
Intel chief: Harsh techniques brought good info
Private memo says interrogation methods helped nation in terrorism fight
updated 10:21 p.m. ET, Tues., April 21, 2009
WASHINGTON - 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.
Admiral Blair sent his memo on the same day the administration publicly released secret Bush administration legal memos authorizing the use of interrogation methods that the Obama White House has deemed to be illegal torture. Among other things, the Bush administration memos revealed that
two captured Qaeda operatives were subjected to a form of near-drowning known as waterboarding a total of 266 times.
Some parts of memo deleted
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.
HUH?, wonder why they deleted that?????