David Ignatius’s Washington Post column on the release of the Inspector General’s Report and other documents strikes some of the right notes, but his conclusion is far off the mark. Ignatius writes:
One of the most chilling documents released this week was one that Vice President Cheney had requested to show how well the interrogation program worked. It calculated that in 2004, 3,800 of the total 6,600 human intelligence reports on al-Qaeda came from “detainee reporting.” That kind of metric sends a message: It’s a numbers game, fellas. No wonder the CIA is glad to be out of the interrogation business.
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