The book demonstrates what a hopeless bureaucratic nightmare our intelligence and defense services have become; an endless charade of paperwork, rules, attorneys and confusing nonsensical, bureaucratic steps, just to conduct simple intelligence activities. Certainly, at this rate, we will not–we cannot–prevail in a war with a capable adversary. And the facts revealed, so far, demonstrate this is exactly what liberals in the U.S. want. Consistent with facts revealed in this book, and stated liberal ideology, we now see irrefutable evidence that the Obama administration and its corrupt Attorney General and his minions, are behind further leaks of classified information and a grand cover up of the same. No amount of sham regime “investigations,” however, can cover-up the truth. Lawless Obama, Holder and treasonous leaker-liberals should be tried and jailed. Rodriguez deserves high praise and our gratitude for doing what needed to be done to keep us safe, all in the face of liberal treason.

I could sense Lesley’s discomfort with Rodriguze’s answers which salves my soul a bit.

But his image shows how he now has to wear an eye patch. There is image published showing him minutes after he was captured — unocnscious, but with two healthy eyes.

When everyone read John Yoo’s infamous torture memo, and the passage about how the President could authorize interrogators to pluck out subject’s eyes, everyone thought this was just written for effect.

But Abu Zubaydah did in fact lose his eye while being interrogated by his CIA torturers. He was taken to one interrogation with two healthy eyes, and he woke up in his cell with one of his eye sockets bandaged. The CIA does in fact pluck out suspect’s eyes.

Rodriguez is a shameful war criminal. Worse, his deceit has not made the public safer, as he claims, his insistence on continuing to put forward the false narrative where torture worked has been extremely damaging to public safety.

From what we know of Abu Zubaydah and his colleague ibn al Shaykh al Libi — they told the truth prior to be being tortured — just as the FBI interrogators believe.

Under torture Al Libi made three importnat false confessions that cost trillios of dollars hundreds of thousands of innocent civilian lives, and the lives of thousands of American GIs.

Under torture Al Libi confessed to running a training camp where al Qaeda trainees were trained by Iraqi weapons specialists, who trained them how to use Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Colin Powell’s speech to the United Nations was based on these two false confessions. There were no ties between al Qaeda and Iraq. Iraq meekly destroyed all its WMD immediately after its defeat during the 1991 Gulf War.

That very costly, pointless war was the direct result of using torture and taking confessions wrung through torture at face value.

Mr Rodriguze was no hero.