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Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack

by Marc Thiessen

Few Americans know of al Qaeda’s 2006 plot to hijack seven American passenger jets and blow them up as they crossed the Atlantic. Fewer still know that this was just one of many post-9/11 terrorist plots that were foiled thanks to information obtained by waterboarding the captured 9/11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (“KSM”). Yet, immediately upon taking office, President Barack Obama began to dismantle this vital program, and released reams of documents describing the techniques used to interrogate KSM and other high-value terrorists — claiming that such techniques not only constituted “torture” but were also ineffective. While Obama’s release of these documents has done enormous damage to our national security, it has also make it possible to prove that he is wrong on both counts.

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