CIA chief: Waterboarding aided bin Laden raid

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  May 4th at 06:00 AM  | 

If you haven’t read this piece by Dan McLaughlin, consider it your must read of the day. For the past 48 hours, lefties have been falling all over themselves and contorting themselves in knots to downplay enhanced interrogations and the role waterboarding might have played in getting Bin Laden. One of the most humorous contortions came from Spencer Ackerman, a lefty hack who has taken | Read More »

How Many Americans Will Die Because of Barack Obama’s Weak National Security Leadership?

By: Erick Erickson (Diary)  |  April 21st at 10:14 PM  | 

Let me say this without reservation, despite the left-wing assault when I twittered it: I do not doubt that more Americans will die at the hands of terrorists under the watch of Barack Obama than under the watch of George W. Bush. Back on January 8th, I wrote General Michael Hayden and John O. Brennan are career guys. They are not partisans. I could not | Read More »