1.0 link 157098 <![CDATA[Newsweek Reporters: Obama Should Keep Torture]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/12/inewsweeki-reporters-obam_n_157098.html A Newsweek article, detailing the legacy that Dick Cheney is leaving for the incoming Obama administration, contains a description of a scene that I think may be steeped in apocrypha:

At a retirement ceremony recently for a top-level intelligence official, the senior spooks in the room gave each other high-fives. They were celebrating the fact that terrorists have not attacked the United States since 9/11. In the view of many intelligence professionals, the get-tough measures encouraged or permitted by George...
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