Blair: Damage Done By Torture Far Outweighs Benefits
22 April 2009 7:25 pm by Taylor Marsh
“Torture does not work. … You cannot rely on torture. …” – Bob Baer (”Hardball)
Byron York didn’t read the whole article today. York only retained the part of Baker’s story that fit his plot line. That’s what a lot of conservatives like to do, because the full picture being painted by the Obama administration releasing the torture memos leaves Bush-Cheney no place to hide.
It takes the whole article before you get Blair’s bottom line:
A spokeswoman for Admiral Blair said the lines were cut in the normal editing process of shortening an internal memo into a media statement emphasizing his concern that the public understand the context of the decisions made in the past and the fact that they followed legal orders.
“The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means,” Admiral Blair said in a written statement issued last night. “The bottom line is these techniques have hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security.”
TM Note: I’ve been working all day on a project, just so you know what’s going on, just slammed today.
