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Getting
Dirty Getting bin Laden
by Debra J. Saunders
Jan 06, 2013
During
George W. Bush's presidency,
it was a matter of liberal faith that the use of enhanced interrogation
techniques on al-Qaida members "undermine our moral authority and do
not
make us safer," as Barack Obama once put it. According to Obama,
"enhanced interrogation techniques" are wrong, and -- no matter what
common sense tells you -- they never work. Asking nicely works best
with terrorists.
"Zero
Dark Thirty" --
Kathryn Bigelow's new thriller about the decadelong quest to bring
Osama bin
Laden to justice -- doesn't cleave to that liberal orthodoxy.
At
a preview Thursday, I saw a
steely homage to the hardworking souls who endured the grueling slog to
locate
the man who ordered the 9/11 attacks. And yes, "Zero Dark Thirty"
depicts an al-Qaida detainee who, after being waterboarded, gives up
the first
information about a courier to bin Laden.
Senate
Intelligence Committee
Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein is hopping mad. Last month, her office sent
a
letter, co-signed by Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John McCain,
R-Ariz., to
Sony Pictures that called the movie "grossly inaccurate and
misleading" in suggesting that harsh interrogations produced
information
that led to bin Laden.
The
Senate Three now are
investigating the CIA's communications with the filmmakers.
"Some
U.S. senators now think
they're film critics," quipped former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow. "For
films they don't like, they start investigations…
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