tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050750623814231496.post4400436444168322454..comments2023-05-05T11:36:27.988-04:00Comments on The Sage of Mount Airy: Him AgainThe Sage of Mount Airyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08141602249985159716noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050750623814231496.post-71724936392783073752011-05-19T07:24:15.848-04:002011-05-19T07:24:15.848-04:00Hmmm? (Imagine me scratching my chin.) Most insig...Hmmm? (Imagine me scratching my chin.) Most insightful sf. Thanks.The Sage of Mount Airyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141602249985159716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050750623814231496.post-3467797494456529382011-05-18T21:34:51.465-04:002011-05-18T21:34:51.465-04:00It would take someone with the clairvoyance of Ras...It would take someone with the clairvoyance of Rasputin to fully understand McCain's motive . . . But if I had to guess, he tends to fly off the handle and respond emotionally to any threat to his reputation. He had staked quite a bit of that reputation in arguing against the Bush's administration's use of waterboarding, and probably felt that it was time to speak out after it became clear that the waterboarding of KSM and the use of rendition had helped nail Osama. It wouldn't surprise me if he had been encouraged to speak up by some of his Democratic friends, since unlike them his Vietnam experience shields him from reproach (until now). It's one issue where he gets constant kudos from the left, and it helps remove the "stain" of his selection of Palin.<br /><br />For people who pay attention to the questions surrounding the use of "enhanced interrogation," McCain has no credibility left. Michael Mukasey, who came on board as AG long after the waterboarding was halted, and who hardly adheres to a strict conservative line, is a person of great integrity. I'd take his account over McCain's any day.sfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00547021158487782028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050750623814231496.post-73723833875705715992011-05-18T17:28:33.770-04:002011-05-18T17:28:33.770-04:00Indeed. So what is McCain up to?Indeed. So what is McCain up to?The Sage of Mount Airyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08141602249985159716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8050750623814231496.post-34117998629763976632011-05-18T12:13:12.002-04:002011-05-18T12:13:12.002-04:00“In a letter to McCain obtained by Reuters, CIA di...“In a letter to McCain obtained by Reuters, CIA director Leon Panetta was equivocal about the role enhanced interrogation played in producing intelligence on bin Laden.<br /><br />‘Some of the detainees who provided useful information about the facilitator/courier’s role had been subjected to enhanced interrogation techniques,” Panetta wrote. But he added: ‘Whether those techniques were the ‘only timely and effective way’ to obtain such information is a matter of debate and cannot be established definitively.’"<br /><br />This is hardly the ringing denial of the use of EIT and its link to Osama’s demise that McCain led us to believe last week.sfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00547021158487782028noreply@blogger.com