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A very true point by William McGurn: Now that Democrats have their coveted 60-vote majority in the Senate, why haven’t they legislatively banned and thus made illegal the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation techniques,” including waterboarding? Why indeed. Over the past few years, the Democrats have moved to ban waterboarding only when it was clear that such [...]

Ho, hum, more misleading slant from the New York Times. Nothing new here: [Fox News] The New York Times reported last week that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 terror attacks, was waterboarded 183 times in one month by CIA interrogators. The “183 times” was widely circulated by news outlets throughout [...]

Let’s get at the truth too about the word “torture,” which to different people, means different things. Some think “torture” means standing on the 98th floor of a burning skyscraper and realizing you have a choice between jumping and being incinerated. Some think torture is being crushed when a building implodes around you. Some think [...]

I don’t agree with the final conclusion, but the point is this: Even an Obama-supporting, center-left Washington Post writer, David Ignatius (Body of Lies), thinks that Obama has done our intelligence services damage with his decision to release the memos. It’s Amateur Hour at the White House. Again. Obama seems to think he can have [...]

The subject of harsh interrogations and what constitutes torture is back in the media spotlight. That Democrats had no qualms with the tactics and full and complicit knowledge is another post. Here, however, lies the point: The cited interrogations (in 2002 and 2003) weren’t done for confessions, or to lead to trials, but to gain [...]