Sleep Well-Obama to Protect Terrorists From Us

Wimpy liberals are violently opposed to the use of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques unless practiced on members of the Bush administration. The thought of putting a caterpillar in a cell with a barbarian who would gladly saw our heads off shocks the liberal conscience. The left deems waterboarding to be a vile form of torture, despite the fact that millions of us waterboard ourselves every morning with a Neti pot and some SinuCleanse®.

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Former Vice President, Dick Cheney has taken Obama back to the woodshed yet again about national security. The alleged Harvard grad is a slow learner. Cheney appeared on This Week, persevering in his efforts to stop Obama from destroying our country: “Mr. Cheney said interrogators should have had the option to use the ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ his administration approved—including the use of simulated drowning, or ‘water-boarding.’ He called himself "a big supporter of water-boarding,’ which critics say amounts to torture.” "Now, President Obama has taken [those techniques] off the table,’ Mr. Cheney said. ‘He announced when he came in last year that they would never use anything other than the U.S. Army Manual which doesn't include those techniques. I think that's a mistake.’" Marc Thiessen, author of Courting Disaster, which may be one of the most important books of the decade, has been calling out the Left on their incessant fabrications about enhanced interrogation. Thiessen makes the case that Obama’s Soros-friendly policies have put America in a much more vulnerable position. Thiessen, a former Bush speechwriter, was asked by the president to write a speech describing how the enhanced interrogation program was working to assure the American people that not only were innocent peaceniks at Gitmo not being tortured; but, that the information obtained via this disciplined and notably professional program had thwarted numerous attacks. “And so, I was asked by President Bush to write a speech revealing this program. And in the course of writing that speech, I got to know the interrogators. I sat down in the room with the people who are actually with the real Jack Bauers, the one who actually interrogated these people. And they told me, they walked me through how they stop terrorist attacks. How they interrogated Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, how they got him to tell us his plans for follow on attacks after 9/11.” Thiessen explained to Sean Hannity: “THIESSEN: Well, there were two, if we think back the period right after 9/11 there were two terror networks. We didn't know, first of all, we didn't know who KSM was when we were hit. We didn't know who he was that he was behind this all.” “And so, we started and there were two terror networks out there planning to attack us. We now know from this intelligence staff. One was KSM's network which is behind 9/11 and the other one was the Hambali network which is South East Asian terrorists that he had tasked to hijack a plane and fly it into the library tower in Los Angeles. And as a result of interrogating, I told the story in the book of how we captured first Abu Zubaydah, then KSM and then slowly rolled up these two networks — more than two dozen people — and stopped them from committing attacks to fly a plane in the Library Tower, to blow up our consulate in Karachi, to blow up our Marine camp in Djibouti. To fly an airplane — to do 9/11 in London. Fly planes in London's financial district at Heathrow Airport. And so, all of these things were stopped. Now, fast forward to 2009, a new terror network — this could be the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.” “By the Obama administration's admission, we know nothing about them, we didn't even know they were planning attacks in the United States. Why? Because we are not capturing terrorists and interrogating them anymore.” “We are courting disaster. We're in danger because we do not have this capability. You know, I will explain why it's important, OK. I interviewed Michael Hayden, the former CIA Director. Now, he said was, intelligence is like putting together a puzzle without being able to see the cover of the box. You've got all these pieces, you got signals intelligence, the e-mail intercepted some kind, and the only people who know what the picture looks like are the senior terrorists like KSM. So, when you interrogate them, they tell you what the picture on the cover of the books look like.” “Through 2006, since the 9/11 attacks half of what we knew about Al Qaeda and their plans came from CIA interrogations.” “They have identified voices and phone calls which we didn't know who they were. They uncoded terrorist communications for us. They told us how from the inside how Al Qaeda operates and what their plans are. They gave us the picture on the cover of the box. We don't have the picture on the cover of the box anymore and that's why we are in danger.” Thiessen has also exposed some intriguing truths about waterboarding that is altogether antithetical to the hysterical left’s version. “THIESSEN: One of the things that is actually, one of the biggest myths told about this program, we actually didn't use enhanced interrogation techniques to get intelligence. We used enhanced interrogation techniques to get them to cooperate. KSM started out being defiant then we waterboarded him then he was compliant. And they asked him during the enhanced interrogation technique, answers to questions they knew the answers to, to gauge whether he was now changed his mind and was going to cooperate and then the techniques stopped. The techniques lasted a couple of days.” “THIESSEN: There is a story, of one of the interrogators who was at late at night was talking to — Garner (ph) was a guy who did entire investigation on this program. And this guy said, that he had — he was with KSM late one night and KSM just said to him, you know, if I ever get out of this hole I'm going to slit your throat and kill your family and smiled while he said it. And this guy said, you know, my job is hard, and it's tough sometimes facing this guys, but every time I get down, I just think of that couple, those two people who stood at the ledge of the World Trade Center and just held their hands and went off into space and I go back to my work. These people are heroes, they are not torturers, they're heroes who stopped the next 9/11, and they are vilified.” “Unlike Philippe [Sands] and the other critics, I've actually spoken to the CIA interrogators, the people who waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and applied these enhanced interrogation techniques. And one of the things they told me which was fascinating, when Abu Zubaydah, the first terrorist who was interrogated by the CIA, was waterboarded, he told his -- he thanked his interrogators for waterboarding him and said to them, ‘You must do this for all the brothers.’’’ “And why did he do that? The reason he did it, he says, is because the jihadi philosophy is that Allah will prevail no matter what they do. So their moral responsibility is to resist as much as they can, and then once they've resisted, they are free to say whatever they want to do. They can spill their guts.” “Now, if you know that, how do you design an interrogation plan? You design an interrogation program that is safe, that will not harm the detainees, but gives them something to resist. And that is what the CIA did with these, and they got intelligence that stopped terrorist attacks.’” (Source) If Obama stays on his current track, and it’s a safe bet he will, we will need a congress willing to Cheney up on behalf of our country.