Leon Panetta -- Bush's torture policies worked

In a rare, and regretted, moment of honesty, Leon Panetta bucks the orthodox narrative of liberalism that waterboarding and advanced interrogation don't work. The lie that advanced interrogation didn't work was one of the "death by a thousand cuts" that Democrats used to undermine George Bush and our success in Iraq and Afghanistan. They dishonestly used the issue to smear George Bush in the eyes of the world, and now Obama is taking credit for Bush policies.

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[curefreak]

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[mulhollanddose]

@curefreak,

Naturally a fruitcake liberal would think precisely that.

[ElZagna]

I don't see this as Panetta endorsing waterboarding. What he seems to be saying (after you cut through the gobbeldygook) is that while some of the information came from water boarding, that information could just as well have come from traditional interrogation methods. 

[mulhollanddose]

@ElZagna,

It didn't come from other sources. It came from waterboarding and other advanced interrogation techniques. The Obama Administration is now backpeddling from the only semi-credible man in his administration (Panetta). Good to see you have heard their talking points and came here to regurgitate them.

[ElZagna]

@mulhollanddose How do you know what information came from waterboarding. Do you have a cite?

[mulhollanddose]

@ElZagna,

Yes, Leon Panetta for one. Watch the video. Panetta let slip out what the Obama Administration did not want to be communicated. He strayed from the reservation and in a rare moment of truthfulness, he told the truth.

[zsezse215]

What do we need waterboarding for when we have synthetic telepathy? philipnute com

[curefreak]

@mulhollanddose proud fruitcake liberal

[ElZagna]

Ah, yes, you're right . In the thick of that mumbo-jumbo he does acknowledge that some of the information used to track down bin Laden came from waterboarding, but then he makes it clear that the question of whether or not the same information could have been gathered from traditional methods of interrogation is still open to debate.