Debate closed: Enhanced interrogation works

If you don't believe me, believe WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. His organization has released hundreds of documents that prove the point.

“The WikiLeaks documents provide still additional evidence that intelligence gained from CIA detainees not only helped lead us to Osama bin Laden, it helped us disrupt a number of follow-on attacks that had been set in motion after 9/11,” said Marc Thiessen, a former Bush speechwriter.

“Without this program, we would not have gone nearly 10 years without another catastrophic attack on the homeland. This is quite possibly the most important, and most successful, intelligence program in modern times. But instead of medals, the people behind this program have been given subpoenas.”

You can read the whole story here.

Big Baby Obamaphiles will throw their usual hissy fits over this reality. But the facts don't lie. You can argue over whether enhanced interrogation (waterboarding, sleep deprivation, etc.) is "right", but you can no longer argue that the techniques did not work.

Yes, yes, I know the Obama-is-great crowd will try to emulate the boss by saying that the results garner bogus info. But WikiLeaks knocks down that argument conclusively. Enhanced interrogation works.

You don't have to be a calc professor to conclude that because of what Team Bush did we're all more safe. The real question, now that Team Obama for the last 24 months is not using enhanced interrogation techniques on enemy combatants, is far more scary: How less safe are we?

Bush tactics helped lead us to administer double-tap justice on OBL. It also resulted in a trove of terrorist info. In the Bush era, that info would have resulted in plenty of enhanced interrogation and plenty of good intel. In the Obama era, we get public defenders and jack for information.

That makes the next 24 months more scary for Americans, not less.