{"id":505715,"date":"2010-04-02T15:05:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=81330"},"modified":"2010-04-02T15:05:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T19:05:46","slug":"top-cia-operative-%e2%80%98i-don%e2%80%99t-think-we%e2%80%99ve-suffered-at-all%e2%80%99-from-waterboarding-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/505715","title":{"rendered":"Top CIA Operative: \u2018I Don\u2019t Think We\u2019ve Suffered at All\u2019 From Waterboarding Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Theissen, get set to attack your next target &#8212; Michael Sulick, head of the CIA&#8217;s National Clandestine Service.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/spy-talk\/2010\/04\/cias_top_spy_no_losses_from_wa.html\">Via Jeff Stein<\/a>, Sulick, a longtime CIA operative, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/Campus_Resources\/eNewsroom\/topstories_1820.asp\">told a gathering at his alma mater<\/a> that the loss of torture techniques hasn&#8217;t hindered intelligence work:<span id=\"more-81330\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>When asked if the Obama administration\u2019s ban on waterboarding has had serious consequences on the war against terror, Sulick answered in general terms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t think we\u2019ve suffered at all from an intelligence standpoint,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but I don\u2019t want to talk about [it from] a legal, moral or ethical standpoint.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For the record, it was the Bush administration that actually banned waterboarding after using it to horrific effect, a fact that has caused <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/books\/2010\/03\/29\/100329crbo_books_mayer\">no end of cognitive dissonance in conservative torture advocates<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Theissen, get set to attack your next target &#8212; Michael Sulick, head of the CIA&#8217;s National Clandestine Service. Via Jeff Stein, Sulick, a longtime CIA operative, told a gathering at his alma mater that the loss of torture techniques hasn&#8217;t hindered intelligence work: When asked if the Obama administration\u2019s ban on waterboarding has had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4314,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}