In releasing highly classified documents on the CIA interrogation program last week, President Obama declared that the techniques used to question captured terrorists "did not make us safer." This is patently false! The proof is in the memos Obama made public -- in sections that have gone virtually unreported in the media.
Obama critics say that Obama's decision to release these documents is one of the most dangerous and irresponsible acts ever by an American president during a time of war.
Critics of the CIA interrogation program claim that enhanced techniques do not produce good intelligence because people will say anything to get the techniques to stop. However the Washington Post report says:
As Abu Zubaydah himself explained with respect to enhanced techniques, 'brothers who are captured and interrogated are permitted by Allah to provide information when they believe they have reached the limit of their ability to withhold it in the face of psychological and physical hardship." In other words, the terrorists are called by their faith to resist as far as they can -- and once they have done so, they are free to tell everything they know.
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