Faced with
the conflicting claims about the CIA’s use of “enhanced
interrogation” methods on suspected terrorists, most people have
neither the time nor the expertise to sift through all the evidence
to make a definitive judgment. But here’s a useful exercise, writes
Steve Chapman: Imagine that in the aftermath of 9/11, the person in
charge of the CIA was Kathleen Sebelius.
Why would anyone expect the spy agency to do a more honest or
effective job in getting information from detainees than HHS did in
handling health insurance customers? The assumption among the Bush
administration’s defenders is that the intelligence community is
made up of star performers with peerless skills and impeccable
judgment. But it’s not clear the CIA workforce is appreciably
different from the rest of the Washington bureaucracy, according to
Chapman.
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