Midknight Review -- new and revised: What has Obama Interrogation Policy done for our safety? Precisely nothing. Here are the facts.

Recently, I wrote: "Here is a fact for you: Obama no longer seeks to capture and interrogate high value insurgents. We know this because he has yet to interrogate a single high value terrorist. He took down the CIA's interrogation units during the first 4 months of his last term in office and never got around to replacing same with an FBI equivalent (known as HIG units). Until the Seals killed Osama, we had no new, actionable intelligence on Al Qaeda. Without Bush his intelligence methods, Osama would still be alive."

Here is a more accurate purview of the situation.

On Jan 20 of 2010, 8 months after the CIA was ordered to stand down with regard to the interrogation of captured terrorists, National Intelligence Director, Dennis Blair, went on record criticizing the FBI for having not filled this void. Two days later, the FBI responded by reminding the Director that the Obama administration had not pushed for the creation of the new High Value Interrogation Groups (HIG) that were intended to take charge of the CIA interrogation duties. The Christmas bomber? He was "interrogated" by New York city police. Ditto for the kid who tried to blow up a New York City business district. And what did "we" discover in terms of critical and new information? Nothing.

In the same month, January of 2010, after we discovered the Administration had not supplied an alternative to the defunct CIA organized interrogations, we were told that the FBI alternative was "months away" from being institutionalized. (see the WSJ for this information). Understand that any and all new intel information about Al Qaeda will have its source in the harsh interrogation tactics of 2003 -2005 or from the "treasure trove" of information found in Osama bin Laden's hideout. In other words, Obama's interrogation policies will have been responsible for next to nothing in terms of valued and new information. Before Osama's killing, Obama had not secured any new intel -- for the past two plus years, we have been flying blind except for the work of George Bush.

The Stated Nonsense from the Left now includes these Progressive goals:

July 2, 2008, Obama had this to say: "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."

MICHELLE OBAMA: "Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."

“ . . . . . . they have become a generation of activists possessed with that most American of ideas – that people who love their country can change it.” -- Obama the Radical

On September 30, Van Jones told MSNBC "I think everybody should hold onto your seats. October is going to be the turning point when it comes to the progressive fight back."

Midknight Review -- new and revised

What has Obama Interrogation Policy done for our safety? Precisely nothing. Here are the facts.

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