A number of readers wrote in questioning (in often colorful terms) my assertion that the CIA program was singularly responsible for stopping a series of terrorist attacks. The intelligence community declassified many details of this program in September 2006, and President Bush revealed them in this speech in the East Room that month. It explains clearly how this program saved lives , and why President Obama’s plan to use the Army Field Manual to question senior terrorists captured in the war on terror won’t work.

Here is the link.