It works, it works, it works, it works...

From the estimable Dr. Charles Krauthammer:

"I think there really has been a shift in public opinion, and I think the I.G. report has reflected that quite strongly.

"Look, the liberal position was inherently implausible. The position was: Enhanced interrogation — torture, if you like — doesn't work.

"[But] intuitively everybody knows that everybody has a breaking point.

"Then you get the I.G. report, which tells you in black and white that Khalid Sheik Mohammed said nothing of interest or importance until he was subjected to the simulated drowning and the sleep deprivation. And then he became a professor on Al Qaeda with a chalkboard. And that happened to several others.

"And then people have to say — liberals have to say — it's a coincidence that he didn't say anything before, and spoke after. It's coincidence that there were no attacks in eight years.

"Cheney is winning on this because it is intuitively and empirically obvious that these techniques have worked and saved many American lives."