{"id":4625,"date":"2009-04-22T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2009-04-21T18:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T23:39:00","slug":"they-saved-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4625","title":{"rendered":"They Saved Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3565\/3464263120_0a4ce4cb0f.jpg?v=0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The CIA waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed over 250 times.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibdeditorials.com\/IBDArticles.aspx?id=325121124043870\">As former CIA Director Michael Hayden<\/a> and former Attorney General Michael  Mukasey pointed out last week, half of the U.S. government&#8217;s knowledge of  al-Qaida&#8217;s structure and activities is the fruit of enhanced interrogation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;which is to say torture &#8211; let&#8217;s not mince words<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That information let the U.S. and other governments foil numerous 9\/11-style  operations, saving hundreds if not thousands of innocent lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The torture of <em>terrorists<\/em>, not babies, not harp seals, not your neighbors, not your friends&#8230;saved <em>innocent <\/em>lives.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We understand that people have legitimate concerns about the U.S. being  involved in torture. But enhanced interrogation \u2014 a reasonable (but now  rescinded) response to the deadliest of threats to our homeland \u2014 should be seen  for what it is: a tough, but effective, way to save lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>War on Terror Scorecard: Obama 0, Terrorists 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CIA waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed over 250 times. As former CIA Director Michael Hayden and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey pointed out last week, half of the U.S. government&#8217;s knowledge of al-Qaida&#8217;s structure and activities is the fruit of enhanced interrogation. &#8230;which is to say torture &#8211; let&#8217;s not mince words That information let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}