The Real CIA News -- Wall Street Journal CommentaryInterrogations were carefully limited, briefed on Capitol Hill, and yielded information that saved innocent lives.
Whoever advised people to be skeptical of what they read in the papers must have had in mind this week's coverage of the documents about CIA interrogations. Now that we've had a chance to read the reports, it's clear the real story isn't the few cases of abuse played up by the media. The news is that the program was thoughtfully developed, carefully circumscribed, briefed to Congress, and yielded information crucial to disrupting al Qaeda.
In other words, it worked—at least until politics got in the way.
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Inside the Ring -- Washington Times
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Pain and Truth -- The New Yorker
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Probe shows 9/11 is, sadly, forgotten -- AJC opinion
Editorial: Tortured lessons on CIA abuses -- Dallas News editorial
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