Real Clear Truth

It has been a huge injustice to me that so many believe our CIA agents engaged in torture of captured al-Qaeda terrorists. People imagine our agents acted somewhat like the fictional agent Jack Bauer of the series “24″. But that is far from the truth. In contrast, we should be quite proud of what our agents accomplished and how well and admirable they did their jobs. Marc Theissen’s article, Meet the Real Jack Bauers, makes this quite clear. Here’s just one quote:

Gardner Peckham, the former national-security adviser to House Speaker Newt Gingrich, recalls having a long conversation late one night with one of the [CIA]  interrogators when he was conducting his review. This was “a very dedicated, capable guy who told me that he had been in with KSM one day, and KSM had basically said to him matter-of-factly, ‘If I ever get out of this hole, I’m going to kill you and your entire family.’ We were sitting there at nine o’clock at night or something, and he said to me, ‘You know, I work long days; this is hard. When I get down about it, I just think back to the film footage of the two people standing on the window of the World Trade Center on the 90-something floor, grasping each other by the hand and stepping out into space.’ He said, ‘I think of those two people, and I just go back to work.’”