The Los Angeles Times has published an extensive piece on enhanced interrogation and the CIA but left out one teensy weensy detail: The fact that enhanced interrogations of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed prevented a 9/11 style attack on… wait for it… Los Angeles!
In fact, their two page article omits that little fact 100 percent. They do, however, go out of their way to bash the very people who kept them safe by preventing the attack.
“Whether those methods worked is facing independent scrutiny for the first time only now, three months after President Obama banned the CIA from using them.”
“As part of an executive order shutting down the CIA’s secret prisons, the White House has set up a task force to examine the effectiveness of various interrogation approaches.”
“I cannot describe the specific methods used,” Bush said. “But I can say the procedures were tough, and they were safe, and lawful, and necessary.”
“By then, Bush administration officials had become concerned with a shifting legal landscape. Congress had passed new laws on the treatment of detainees, and the Supreme Court issued a ruling that undercut the administration’s claim that detained terrorism suspects were not entitled to the protections of the Geneva Convention.”
All this and they never once mention that the CIA has confirmed a terror attack on Los Angeles was averted through the actions of the CIA.
“The Central Intelligence Agency told CNSNews.com today that it stands by the assertion made in a May 30, 2005 Justice Department memo that the use of “enhanced techniques” of interrogation on al Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM) — including the use of waterboarding — caused KSM to reveal information that allowed the U.S. government to thwart a planned attack on Los Angeles.”
Excellent reports on this subject can be found at NewsBusters and Patterico.
For the best explanation of enhanced interrogation and the hypocrisy of the sanctimonious American left, do yourself a favor and read this essay by Michael Rulle.
Hat tip to Robert Davi at Big Hollywood.
Also be sure to check out the brilliant cartoon below from Michael Ramirez at Investor’s Business Daily called “The Hokey Pelosi.”
