Wite-It-Out

Ed Morrissey via Hot Air:

Obama’s DNI [Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair] reminds Obama that “enhanced interrogation” worked.

FTA

Barack Obama’s top man in the intelligence community sent the President a memo defending the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, which the White House ** edited ** before releasing to the press de-emphasizing that defense. Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence, pointed out that most of what we know about al-Qaeda came from using those techniques on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah, countering leaks last week from the Obama administration that claimed the methods produced no data ...

The New York Times, which got a copy of the memo, also notices some odd redactions from the version released by the White House ...

In other words, the Obama administration covered up the fact that even their own DNI acknowledges that the interrogations produced actionable and critical information. When Dick Cheney demanded the release of the rest of the memos relating that information, he wasn’t just going on a fishing expedition. Cheney filed a request to declassify those memos in March, and the CIA has yet to decide on his request, but we can no longer doubt that records exist showing the success of those interrogations.

Next thing you know, even CNN will have it. Obama et al. redefining the meaning of transparency.