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To: combjelly who wrote (481597)	5/17/2009 5:53:49 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576328

>> Obama is against the Truth Commission. He is hoping the issue dies. He has other fish to fry. That doesn't address the question. Why does he not release the redacted portions of the memos that explain just how effective the techniques were? This information is going to come out. He is all about "transparency". Why hide the positive benefits of waterboarding -- which he has basically acknowledged existed -- and release the only the information that damages our country? Look, he clearly made a huge mistake by releasing what he did. And he knows it. But the redacted portions were redacted for no reason. It is disingenuous for a president to say, "Waterboarding doesn't work" or "We can get the same information using other methods", when we know that isn't true. Then, he hides the documents which prove it? He released the portions that were damaging to our national security and then refuses to release the portions that would NOT damage us. It just makes no sense other than he thought it was a good idea politically at the time. Obviously, he knows what a foolish mistake it was [politically] by now. He's hoping this will die, and it may, but my guess is someone is going to force it to be released. There is no justification for the redactions.