Withdrawing Brennan was a bone meant to placate - too bad Obama found a way to bring him in the back door.  Really too bad the deal wasn't "no Brennan, nowhere in government. Period."

George W. Bush-hating avengers

I don't read that as a claim that attacks were thwarted or that lives were saved.  I read that as a claim that the "high value information" was all or mostly background.  A "deeper understanding" could justly be described as "high value", but it is decidedly not what those pushing for torture claimed that torture was needed to provide.

Let's not forget, this was a memo to CIA staff, and so we can expect that he would not directly attack the people who work for him.  Given that, I read the statement as the most positive spin possible to put on the facts -- and presumably he is in a position to know if somebody gave up information that thwarted an attack as a result of being tortured.

Taylor has or is a professional contextual twister for bounty. Just as America has witnessed pirates in open waters, some Journalist operates with the same similarly under the Constitution behind the first amendment plus the shield of resource protection.  Freedom of Speech used for personal ambitions such as this is bad karma which will eventually surface to reveal their character embarrasses and destroy themselves. Limbaugh and Hannity are slow beginning to realize this.  

But on a lower profile with characters like George Will, Pat Buchanan, and a ton of hate radio regulars, I would say that Sean Hannity ranks with Cavuto, Dobbs, Wolf, O'Reilly, Mathews and a host of magazine editors and news paper columnist as polished types. My theory on the real reason the rags are going out of business is the electorate public has caught on to bias the lies and dirt that has been dumped into the public arena. These entities are very embarrassed rather would go out of business than tell the truth.

Here is the deal to consider, if actions and pressures did engage President George Bush, or Vice President Cheney or anyone else they may very well break down in public to admit to cover ups and lies in the decisions of the war and prisoner torture. The reason some of the convictions should include should be banishment to see how these characters would be accepted into the International community. That is an intellectual torture thought that might frighten the hell all of them that fear of the world organization might be worse. Remember bush never traveled, likely for very good reason, he probably was not liked before he became president.

Something the entire Republican Party could not endure is an open investigation the Bush family could reveal tons of complicity with the Arabs that could fuel treason, a very difficult situation for Americans.  Of course plea bargains could be made to wave banishment in return for the real truth. That would end the Republican rant as we know it. Rather than destroy the party it would likely clean it out to grow stronger as a new party that could compete and perhaps do better than these Democrats. As that saying goes take advantage of a travesty to turn it into a blessing.