Byron York asks: If he already told us "all that he could" in the mere 50 minutes taken to interrogate him before he was read Miranda rights (as Obama's administration has claimed), how can he be providing new intelligence within the past week (as the White House is now claiming)?
The Administration left too many stones unturned in its initial lightning-speed interrogation, and is now playing catch-up and trying to do what it should have done in the first place.
The effort to gather further intelligence is commendable, but a little honesty about the Administration's earlier failure would be nice.
When intelligence services develop cooperative sources, the information they are given is investigated, confirmed and that generates new leads and new questions. They'd be mighty stupid if they didn't go back and follow up. Debriefing of US POWs takes time as well.
Posted by: Jay Alt | February 06, 2010 at 01:15 AM