{"id":509046,"date":"2010-04-03T11:05:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T15:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthonyclarkarend.com\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2010-04-03T11:05:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-03T15:05:23","slug":"head-of-the-national-clandestine-service-on-the-prohibition-on-waterboarding-%e2%80%9ci-don%e2%80%99t-think-we%e2%80%99ve-suffered-at-all-from-an-intelligence-standpoint%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/509046","title":{"rendered":"Head of the National Clandestine Service on the prohibition on waterboarding:  \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019ve suffered at all from an intelligence standpoint\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 290px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Dr. Michael Sulick\" src=\"http:\/\/stage.web.fordham.edu\/images\/whats_new2010\/sulickweb.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Michael Sulick, Photo- Fordham University\" width=\"280\" height=\"417\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Michael Sulick, Photo- Fordham University<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In case you missed this, Dr. Michael Sulick, Director of the National Clandestine Service, recently delivered an address at Fordham University.\u00a0 After his address, Dr. Sulick was asked about waterboarding. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/Campus_Resources\/eNewsroom\/topstories_1820.asp\">Fordham press release<\/a> explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Sulick followed his lecture with a lengthy question-and-answer session, although he prefaced it by saying he would not comment on any issue that might influence policy. Questions were submitted by Fordham students in advance and read aloud by USG members. 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>At a time when much discussion is focusing on the similarities between the way in which the Obama Administration and the Bush Administration approached terrorism, it is good to be reminded that there are very critical differences.<\/p>\n<p>(HT: Tom Morley)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/AnthonyClarkArend\/~4\/K80FvTsrjmo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Michael Sulick, Photo- Fordham University In case you missed this, Dr. Michael Sulick, Director of the National Clandestine Service, recently delivered an address at Fordham University.\u00a0 After his address, Dr. Sulick was asked about waterboarding. The Fordham press release explains: Sulick followed his lecture with a lengthy question-and-answer session, although he prefaced it by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509046","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\/3977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}