(Image from Goatmilk)West Coast Plot -- National Review
Over at his Washington Post blog, Daniel Froomkin assails my Post oped and comments at NRO, declaring:
In a Washington Post op-ed yesterday, former Bush speechwriter Marc A. Thiessen made the outrageous and unsupported charge that banning Bush's "enhanced interrogation techniques" would "effectively kill a program that stopped al-Qaeda from launching another Sept. 11-style attack."
Wrote Thiessen: "Information gained using those techniques is responsible for stopping a number of planned attacks — including plots to blow up the American consulate in Karachi, Pakistan; to fly airplanes into the towers of Canary Wharf in London; and to fly a hijacked airplane into the Library Tower in Los Angeles."
But as I've repeatedly noted, it's never been proven that any of these attacks were anything more than a fantasy, nor that they were averted due to CIA interrogation.
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My Comment: By pursuing a program that is the complete opposite of President Bush's approach towards combating terrorism, the Obama administration and his Democratic allies have now exposed themselves to be accountable if things go wrong.
The Obama administration are very confident that they are right ..... I can only pray that they are right.
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