Obama Lies: Enhanced Interrogation Worked.

Enhanced inteorrogation, that is what the leftards call tortue, worked.   It saved lives. Marc A. Thiessen, Washtington Post:

In releasing highly classified documents on the CIA interrogation program last week, President Obama declared that the techniques used to question

An interesting snippet from William Kristol, Weekly Standard:

What was more interesting was the accompanying statement by the Director of National Intelligence, Dennis Blair, trying to justify Obama’s decision–or at least put it “into perspective.” The perspective, the context,

In a firefight, superior firepower prevails, C.J. Chivers, New York Times;

An American platoon surprised an armed Taliban column on a forested ridgeline at night, and killed at least 13 insurgents, and perhaps many more, with rifles, machine guns,

If there is anything the one hates, it is having make an actual desision.   Rather t han make a decison the allegationsof tortue duing the Bush administratin, the one has punted the decisino to Spain,   Scott Horton, Daily Beast:

Memo to The One: Pretty words alone will not do.  Video:

Hat tip: Gateway Pundit

Meanwhile away from Obamaland, back in the real world,

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) – Undeterred by U.S. and French hostage rescues that killed five

So, how much credit does Barrack Obama deserve for the rescue of Captain Phillips? The efforts of Obama and his supporters to claim Obama was the reason behind this rescue, are nothing short of frantic. But… Black Five says… Not

The Frogs act, Shashank Bengali and Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers:

[T]he French government said that its navy on Friday freed a yacht that was captured over the weekend, but that one hostage had died in a gun battle

Obama thinks al Qaead is merely misunderstood,  He thinks Rush Limbaugh is evil.David Goldstein, McClatchy Newspapers:

 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he would never put communities like Leavenworth, Kan., at risk in deciding where to relocate

You know when a lawyer is lying?   When his lips are moving.   Alas, if it were but true:  Mail(UK):

Abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has worsened sharply since President Barack Obama took office, a lawyer has claimedAhmed Ghappour,

As a candidate Barack Obama created a terrible box for himseslf.  He could placate his leftard base and abandon an effective war on terror, or he could placate his base, and thus imperil both the nation’s safety and his own

Well whore is not the perfect way to describe Samira Jassam, but it will do.   This story is disgusting on several levels,  Herald Sun (AU):

A WOMAN suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organising

Different subject, but apt never the less, John, Powerline, sums up Barack Obama’s basic problem:

Obama is going to have to learn, and soon, that governing is very different from campaigning. Vague and contradictory promises no longer cut it

I’ve been seeing, of late, some back- chatter on my Pajamas Media piece of the 21st. Both confirmation, and complaint.  Let’s deal with the confirmation first, since it is the more obvio. I said on the 21st:

As President Obama

Barack Obama may or may not be a pragmatist.   If BO is pragmatic it is only in the political sense, how to keep his seat of power.   Dubya liked to bill himself as “The Decider.”   BO is more like the

The New York Times  is reporting that FISA has found, in a ruling last August, that the federal government was in fact within constitutional bounds on warrantless surveillance…

The court decision, made in August 2008 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance