President Obama’s National Intelligence Director: "High Value Information Came From Interrogations In Which Those Methods Were Used"

The New York Times reports that President Obama’s own national intelligence director told colleagues in a private memo last week that the interrogation techniques banned by the White House produced significant information that helped the nation in its struggle against Islamoterrorists.

“High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was attacking this country,” Adm. Dennis C. Blair, the intelligence director, wrote in a memo to his staff last Thursday. Admiral Blair sent his memo on the same day the administration publicly released secret Bush administration legal memos authorizing the use of various interrogation methods including waterboarding, which the Obama administration claims amounts to illegal torture.
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