9. "It's worth recalling that ultimate power of declassification belongs to the president himself. President Obama has used his declassification authority to reveal what happens in the interrogation of terrorists. Now let him use that same power to show Americans what did not happen thanks to the good work of our intelligence officials."
To me this is the big one. It's one thing to say torture is bad, but what if those interrogation techniques can be proved to have saved thousands of American lives? Would that be worth it? Release the full account, then let the American people decide.
It does seem kind of dubious that that the new Administration won't share the successful results of the previous Administration's attempts to protect us. I would think that they would be releasing that kind of info if it were to show that the waterboarding was not effective in preventing further terror attacks. That they aren't releasing such info, that makes me think that the Bush Administration did prevent some attacks with info gained from the high pressure interrogation techniques.
So, do the ends justify the means if it saved thousands of lives? It seems some here would rather we not get the info and let more innocent Americans die in another terror attack.
