Hocus pocus
Posted By Russ Emerson on May 22, 2009 at 2:30 pm
I certainly enjoyed former VP Dick Cheney’s speech yesterday. I didn’t bother listening to Obama’s.
It continues to irk me that Obama would release details about interrogation methods used against captured terrorists, but won’t, per Cheney’s request, release any information about what results were yielded, what specific terrorist plots were thwarted. Heaven forfend that anyone begin to suspect that our intelligence methods might be effective.
This turns the entire notion of “classification” on its head. One of the very first things they teach everyone in the intelligence business is that things are classified based on sources and methods, not on the results achieved.
The way he’s operating, I suspect that if Obama had been president in 1942, he’d have released the details about Magic, but not told the American people about the US victory at Midway.
I’m not entirely convinced that Obama has our best interests in mind.
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