The Pre-Deal

Wednesday night, ABC's Brian Ross declared in a TV interview that the CIA techniques used in interrogating the likes of Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other detainees in the much-maligned 'Secret prison' arrangement produced good, hard data.

In otherwords, it worked:

Not only did they break Khaled Sheikh Mohammed; not only was the information he gave them valuable; not only did it save lives; but Ross’s sources include people within the CIA who are opposed to the practices.

Which only underscores, for me at least, the rightness of last night's deal. Color me gobsmacked.

I look forward to the coming explanations from Andrew and the rest of the folks who've told us otherwise then stared at us like we were Green men from Mars when we told them they were wrong.