9/11 Mastermind Was a Waterboard Regular

It couldn't happen to a nicer guy:

WASHINGTON -- CIA interrogators waterboarded an Al Qaeda prisoner 183 times, according to a 2005 Justice Department legal memo, and another prisoner 83 times, the New York Times reported on Monday.

Quoting the CIA inspector general in a 2004 investigation, the memo from May 30, 2005 says interrogators used the waterboard at least 83 times during August 2002 against Abu Zubaydah, a high-ranking member of Al Qaeda and close associate of Usama bin Laden, the Times said.

In March 2003, the controlled method of simulated drowning was used on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the admitted mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans, 183 times.

Who knows how many lives are saved because of the information that was obtained from this slug? However, none of that will matter now. Because Obama has decided to release these CIA memos against the advice of virtually every intelligence professional, this whole thing will become a witch hunt by the lefty activists against those officials who approved these methods, and possibly against those who administered them. You just have to know that at some point those names will get out.

On the Sunday shows the Obama administration trotted out a collection of political operatives to defend the release decision. Despite requests from the networks not a single intelligence official was made available to answer questions on the decision. My guess is they couldn't find a single intelligence official who thought it was a good idea.

These CIA memos were released for one reason - Obama thinks it will make other people around the world like us better. It won't make America safer, and it certainly won't help our intelligence operatives do their jobs. If anything it will make them seek another line of work and we'll lose good people whose work has helped prevent further attacks.