There are plenty of other explanations, given that it is such a political issue. Well, I don't know. It made a liar out of Obama, and I think that if he thoug

There are plenty of other explanations, given that it is such a political issue. Well, I don't know. It made a liar out of Obama, and I think that if he thought he could close it he would. I believe it is the US military's best interest- for the well being of any US soldiers that might be caught by the enemy- that the world be assured that torture doesn't work. But I really suspect that the numbers are different from what we hear, and somebody showed Obama an estimate of lives saved from the practice, and he decided that he couldn't be the one to pull the plug. TSA is another case in point. They are expensive and people complain. But if they has techniques that worked they would probably keep them quiet. I saw this kind of deception decades ago. The DIA assured us that certain techniques of getting information (spying) didn't work. It later famously came out that they indeed did, and quite well at that. I hope I'm wrong about this. And I have no inside information. Just a hunch. EDIT: More reading on the subject, for those interested. http://justsecurity.org/20553/new-torture-files-declassified-memos-detail-roles-bush-wh-doj-officials-conspired-approve-torture/ http://justsecurity.org/20553/new-torture-files-declassified...