HARRY REID: Interrogations were by using water torture, something that originated in 1492, by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand in the Inquisition.

Hundreds and hundreds of years later, the great America has reverted to what took place in the Inquisition? This latest news of destroyed tapes raises far more questions than we have answers. For example, who is responsible for destroying these tapes? Why? Was something being covered up? The possibility of obstruction of justice is very real. The American people deserve a full accounting for what took place, and answers for all these questions.

Maybe so, Harry, but the first guy you need to question is your own Intel committee chairman, Jay Rockefeller, because he knew the tapes existed, he didn’t say a word. He knew they were going to be destroyed. He didn’t say a word. He didn’t know when they were going to be destroyed. They didn’t tell him when they’d been destroyed, but he knew, he didn’t say a word. Then over in the House, Jane Harman, she knew the tapes were going to be destroyed. She knew about them before anybody else did, along with Jay Rockefeller. She didn’t say a word. When she found out the tapes had been destroyed, at least she sent a letter of protest to the CIA, but Jay Rockefeller didn’t. So you better bring those two up and make ’em your first witnesses.

This guy is just insufferable and just loves taking to the Senate floor and trashing his own country, waving the white flag of defeat. “The surge won’t work, we’ve already lost.”

In a sane world, this man would have been so shamed over just the last six months.

He hasn’t succeeded in one thing in terms of legislation in the Senate. He’s offered, along with Pelosi, something like 60 resolutions to stop funding and get us out of Iraq. He has lost every one of them. He is the most ineffective leader of the Senate in my lifetime and Pelosi is the most ineffective speaker of the House in my lifetime and beyond.

They are walking jokes.

John Kiriakou, CIA agent, interviewed by John Roberts:

ROBERTS: “So this was performed on Abu Zubaydah . To the best of your knowledge, how long did he last?”

KIRIAKOU: It’s my understanding he lasted 30 or 35 seconds, which is quite remarkable.

ROBERTS: He had been resisting all of this time. Then within 30 to 35 seconds, he suddenly folded up and said, “I’ll give you anything you want”?

KIRIAKOU: The next day he told his interrogator that Allah had visited him in his cell during the night and told him to cooperate because it would make it easier on the other brothers who had been captured.

It works, is the bottom line. Thirty to 35 seconds. It works.

ROBERTS: “Well, the big argument with torture is the suspect will tell you anything you want just to stop the torture. Was that true in this case?”

KIRIAKOU: No. We were concerned about that. But the information that he provided was vetted, and it was corroborated. So we were able to point to specific cases where we were able to disrupt terrorist attacks based solely on the information that he provided. I have no doubt that the information gleaned from Abu Zubaydah in his early days stopped terrorist attacks and saved lives. He talked a lot about Al-Qaeda’s leadership structure and mentioned people who we really didn’t have any familiarization with, told us who we should be thinking about, who we should be looking at, who was important in the organization, so we were able to focus our investigations.

Yeah, it works. Democrats say it doesn’t matter.

Thirty-five seconds, and Abu Zubaydah caved, and the information worked, and the Democrats and the liberals tell us that torture is ineffective because people say anything to get out of it and to stop it from happening. And, of course, waterboarding is horrible, just absolutely terrible, terrible, terrible.

One question,

1. Would these protesters, as in Senator Harry and others, would they rather have had the country attacked than the waterboarding occur and the attacks prevented?

An excellent question in a sane world.

and,

I hear a lot, “We wouldn’t want the enemy doing this to American GI’s…”

Personally, I would rather undergo waterboarding then beheading.