Though, he also said "The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means."
Implicit in that statement is that we may have jumped right to it, straight to torture, without even trying anything else.
What happened happened, but it doesn't mean we have to keep doing it. If it was all so sweet and wonderful, why is it that interrogation tapes were intentionally destroyed? If it was so wonderful and productive, shouldn't those tapes have made great training material...since they were legal techniques being used and all?
That's admittedly mild conjecture on my part, but it's not really that tough to logically connect the dots. If everything was legal, then there'd be nothing to hide. And if it was both legal and productive, you KNOW they'd have been singing it from the rooftops and using it to teach other people how to do it.
Just thinking out loud. Can't know everything, but it doesn't take a rocket scientist to come to that conclusion, and it doesn't take a "typical liberal," either. Just some common sense that people don't destroy things like that if there's nothing to hide.
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