Reality Sets In -- IBDeditorialsWar On Terror: The Obama administration says it will employ some of the same harsh tactics George W. Bush used to fight terrorism. Has the president seen the light, or is this just window dressing?
During his confirmation hearings this month, Leon Panetta — the former Democratic California congressman who is President Obama's nominee for CIA director — made a statement that would have outraged the most devoted Obama supporters last year had it been expressed as a campaign position.
If he found that interrogation techniques weren't working at getting terrorist detainees to give up vital details of a plot to hit the U.S., Panetta as CIA head would ask for "additional authority," he said. Panetta added that the CIA's rendition program, in which captured suspects are taken to third countries for jailing and interrogation, might continue.
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My Comment: A blunt editorial from IBD. Bottom line .... President Bush and his administration were successful in preventing additional attacks on U.S. soil after 9/11. Their tactics worked. Why change something that works .... but hope and change is in the air with the new administration.
So be it .... if another attack occurs on U.S. soil in the months and years to come .... we will know who to blame.