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	Name:	Talullahhound -
	Subject:	Good Speech
	Date:	5/21/2009 5:37:31 PM

I think that Cheney made some excellent points. We do have to be careful about revealing intelligence sources -- that is the primary reason most of it is classified.
If they only used Waterboarding on the top 3 high potential prisoners, then I'm prepared to live with that if it provided real time, actionable intelligence.

The Bush Administration deserves credit for what they did after 9/11. They plussed up the intelligence community in a meaningful way. They aggressively went after electronic communications. They plussed up border surveillance. I'm willing to have the government listen into my phone conversations if it means that they catch terrorist planning.

My only problem with Gitmo is that there doesn't appear to have been a strategy for what to do with those we captured. And MM is right, I read the same thing about the number that go back to their terrorist groups when they are released. So, what do you do with them? I don't know.