The CIA’s “black sites” led to Osama bin Laden’s killing; President Bush has been vindicated

  When it was learned that the CIA had “black sites” in Europe where high profile terrorists and persons of interest were being held and interrogated–harshly–in order to avoid granting these murderous scumbags rights granted in the United States constitution the left had a field day. The left, and their all to willing accomplices in the media, used this news to attack President Bush; even going so far as to label him a war criminal.

  This bad publicity eventually led to the closure of these “black sites” because, as we were so often reminded, these prisons were in opposition to what the United States was supposed to represent and hurt our standing across the globe. But now that more details of bin Laden’s killing are being made public, we are learning that these “black sites” were essential to yesterday’s killing of Osama bin Laden.

In a secret CIA prison in Eastern Europe years ago, al-Qaida’s No. 3 leader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, gave authorities the nicknames of several of bin Laden’s couriers, four former U.S. intelligence officials said. Those names were among thousands of leads the CIA was pursuing

One man became a particular interest for the agency when another detainee, Abu Faraj al-Libi, told interrogators that when he was promoted to succeed Mohammed as al-Qaida’s operational leader he received the word through a courier. Only bin Laden would have given al-Libi that promotion, CIA officials believed.

If they could find that courier, they’d find bin Laden.

The revelation that intelligence gleaned from the CIA’s so-called black sites helped kill bin Laden was seen as vindication for many intelligence officials who have been repeatedly investigated and criticized for their involvement in a program that involved the harshest interrogation methods in U.S. history.

  As one CIA officer who once led the hunt for bin Laden had to say, “we got beat up for it, but those efforts led to this great day,” and I couldn’t agree with him more. For all of the grief that President Bush received for these secret prisons in the end it appears as if these prisons played a vital role in discovering where bin Laden was and for the assassination which took place yesterday.

  While Barack Obama deserves the credit he is receiving for authorizing this decapitation mission–as he made abundantly clear in his address to the American people–we must now acknowledge as a nation once and for all that President Bush and his policies regarding fighting terrorism has been vindicated. Former President Bush deserves at least some credit in bringing down Osama bin Laden, and while the media is fawning over Barack Obama for taking out bin Laden, they seem unwilling to admit that it was President Bush and his policies which made this all possible in the first place.

  A thank you is in order for President Bush for doing what he thought was right even in the unwavering and unwarranted criticism that was heaped upon him, and seeing as how the left is unwilling to admit that he was duplicitous in this great day I will say it for them. Thank you President Bush.