Let the information flow

There's been a lot of talk about the torture routinely used in Iraq as having been considered necessary because Washington was keen for more information - the term "flow of information" is always used. Like a spigot, you know. It will take a long, long time to fill your glass with water if you just let the water drip out. And kind of like all the poor people in America waiting for that trickle down.

So, guess what? Now that some shrill America-hating Democrats have called for an end to torture, the flow of information has slowed down. What do you people want? You want to lose this war? You want al-Qa'ida to attack America?!?

Confusion about the legal limits of interrogation has begun to slow government efforts to obtain information from suspected terrorists, American intelligence officials said Sunday.

Doubts about whether interrogators can employ coercive methods, the officials said, could create problems at the start of a critical summer period when counterterrorism officials fear that Al Qaeda might attack the United States.

  NY Times article