The New York Times: Reports on how President Obama has dealt with the torture report " Even as Mr. Obama repeated his belief that the techniques constituted torture and betrayed American values, he declined to address the fundamental question raised by the report, which the committee released on Tuesday: Did they produce meaningful intelligence to stop terrorist attacks...."
Lets Get Real:
The President is thinking about 2016, what if Jeb Bush runs and wins the Presidency in 2016, the next President might decide that the spotlight should be on the Obama Administration, drone strikes, bugging everybody, the use of tax as a political weapon. The liberal Democratic base would have a major heart attack if it had to come out and attack POTUS. It easy to be critical of the past, leaders then feared another attack, the US voter wanted action, not some smug liberal view of the World. What if IS attacks the US homeland, another 9/11 or worse, what are the Democrats going to do then, say morality is more important than saving lives, yes the Democrats might have put themselves in a major hole for 2016.