https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2009/04/22/obamas-dni-reminds-obama-that-enhanced-interrogation-worked/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 20:34:29 -0400<![CDATA[Barack Obama&#8217;s top man in the intelligence community sent the President a memo defending the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, which the White House edited before releasing to the press de-emphasizing that defense.  Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence, pointed out that most of what we know about al-Qaeda came from using those techniques on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah, countering leaks last week from the Obama administration that claimed the methods produced no data:]]>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:44:57 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2009/04/22/obamas-dni-reminds-obama-that-enhanced-interrogation-worked-n161512