I get endless crap for even the slightest hyperbole, and look at what I have to wade through from you and "z."

This isn't about the interrogation techniques. It's about politicians that will sell American security personnel down the river in two seconds flat for political gain, and the effect of this on those security personnel.

This was not only obvious in the article, it should have been obvious from the small excerpt I quoted.

For a little perspective, go back and look at what our security people had to go through trying to get permission from the ass-covering politicos to look at the hard drive of one of the al Qaeda terrorists prior to 9/11. In the political climate, nobody wanted to stick their necks out.