Bulletin: Liberal Asserts Cheney Could Be Right!

Sometimes the liberal Richard Cohen of the Washingpon Post offers a point of view that surprises. In this case it is that the hated Dick Cheney may, for the first time in his 40-year career as a public servant be right: enhanced interrogation works.

In the sanest paragraph I've seen written by a certified member of the MSM on the "torture" memos, Cohen says:

Cheney says he once had the memos in his files and has since asked that they be released. He's got a point. After all, this is not merely some political catfight conducted by bloggers, although it is a bit of that, too. Inescapably, it is about life and death -- not ideology, but people hurling themselves from the burning World Trade Center. If Cheney is right, then let the debate begin: What to do about enhanced interrogation methods? Should they be banned across the board, always and forever? Can we talk about what is, and not just what ought to be?

Cohen also wonders whether these memos might shed some light on whether Nancy Pelosi is lying about her insistence that she wasn't briefed about these techniques.

In calling for release of the memos which Cheney says vindicate the Bush administration policy on interrogation post 9/11, Cohen argues: "The Obama administration ought to call Cheney's bluff, if it is that, and release the memos. If even a stopped clock is right twice a day, this could be Cheney's time."

I recalling praising Cohen in these pages on some other issue, since forgotten. Maybe even liberals are right twice a...life.