Juan Williams seems to think that because Obama admitted that there was a ’systemic failure’ in our inability to process and utilize information on the underwear bomber, that it’s something we can fix, perhaps logistically. In other words someone dropped the ball and we need to find out where the information stopped and fix it. But according to Thiessen that’s not the real problem. The point that Thiessen is making is that there is a fundamental philosophical problem in Obama’s approach to the war on terror and more specifically the capturing and handling of terrorists. If we don’t capture terrorists continually and interrogate them accordingly, then we won’t know if an attack is imminent. And this is the major failure of the underwear bomber, that we didn’t know he was coming. It’s gross negligence and if the attack had succeeded, then blood would have been on Obama’s hands. I know that’s tough language but there is a reason that the Bush administration kept us safe. The Obama administration has the tools but they refuse to use them.

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This has to be the most interesting part of the video for me, as I’ve heard him interviewed several times. As Marc tells the story, the first terrorist of the three that the CIA had to waterboard was so grateful afterward that he recommended that the CIA waterboard his colleagues. Why? Well, I’m gonna make you watch the video to find out, and it’s quite interesting. It in fact was information they were able to use when waterboarding the other two terrorists.

Enjoy:

Ed Morrissey from The Ed Morrissey Show recently interviewed Marc Thiessen on his new book (which you should definitely buy): “Courting Disaster: How the CIA Kept America Safe and How Barack Obama Is Inviting the Next Attack.”

What you’ll hear in this interview is the background on Marc Thiessen which makes him uniquely qualified to write this book, the attacks the CIA learned about from using waterboarding on KSM, why we are now less safe under Obama’s new policies, and much more.

I highly recommend you to listen to this interview – it’s very enlightening. You’ve probably never heard most of this before. It’s about 30 minutes, but it’s definitely worth listening too.

Also be sure and check out hotair.com everyday at 3PM EST to listen to The Ed Morrissey Show. Leave me a comment and let me know what you think of this interview.