Information Obtained By Torture Did Not Help Find bin Laden

Drawn by prurient interest about the goings-on in the fever swamps after the bin Laden incident, JQ and I tuned in to Faux News (we had to look up the channel number...) and watched Peter King (R-NY) tell Bill O'Reilly that torture info had helped to capture bin Laden. Dianne Feinstein, Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, says that that is false.

Conservatives are working hard to try to find some grounds for spinning this as a success for themselves, their most recent president, their policies, and/or whatnot. It's a pathetic, dishonest display of party-before-country-ness, but the kind of thing we've come to expect from them of late.

On a similar note, Sullivan points us to a recent Sarah Palin speech, in which there is no mention of Obama, but she apparently said: "We thank President (George W.) Bush for having made the right calls to set up this victory."

Now that is some desperate bullshit right there.