And what did we get as a country for committing in 2002 the crime of waterboarding? We got the false intelligence that was used to justify the strategically catastrophic invasion and occupation of Iraq. Nowadays, those who pushed for this ask rhetorically how they could have known the intelligence was unreliable? They got it by torturing people, that's how.
So despite Comey's admirable resistance against another legal outrage which started in the same era, warrantless wiretapping, he remains insufficiently qualified to administrate an agency dedicated to investigating violations of the law. We can do better, and James Comey should not be confirmed.
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