Legal Commentary

CIA IG: Cheney And Obama DNI Blair Wrong, No High Value Information From Torture

By Big Tent Democrat

While most people will focus on Dick Cheney being proven wrong, again, my concern is with the guy in office now, Obama Administration Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, who strangely (or not so strangely) gets a pass from the Left blogs (see Greg Sargent, Steve Benen and Media Matters on the subject) for his statements about the effectiveness (and, in the "dark days after 9/11," as opposed to the "lear days of April 2009," the understandability of ordering torture - who could "find fault" for what was done then asks Blair) Imagine if Jane Harman had said what Blair said? They'd be hanging her from a sour apple tree. In any event, both Dennis Blair and Dick Cheney are proven wrong (and Jane Harman right) by this report:

The CIA inspector general in 2004 found that there was no conclusive proof that waterboarding or other harsh interrogation techniques helped the Bush administration thwart any "specific imminent attacks," according to recently declassified Justice Department memos.

Cheney will continue to lie about this. Will Dennis Blair? Will anyone on the Left ask about what Dennis Blair thinks of this?

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 25, 2009 (boomark / email).