ROVE: Taking, for example, the memoranda about the enhanced interrogation techniques and making them public has been a value to our enemy. It has served, frankly, I think, as a recruiting tool. They can now take these memoranda and go to prospective, you know, recruits and say, This is the worst that the enemy, the United States, would ever do to you, and they’ve even forsworn these things. We can help you, prepare you to deal with these things, but even the enemy is so weak they’re not going to use these techniques on you. And it’s given them a tool to make it more attractive to recruit people, and you know, this kind of thing is harmful to us over the long haul.
Karl Rove is a fucking idiot, so I doubt I'm the first person to point out him that "oooooooh, they don't torture!" is not a remarkable recruiting tool for people who willingly walk into pizza parlors and blow themselves to smithereens. So.
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