Marc Thiessen has a very thorough and important post at NRO pushing back against claims that the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah and KSM didn't break up a terror plot in L.A.:
In his post, [Timothy] Noah calls the West Coast plot "Thiessen's claim" and Andrew Sullivan calls it "Thiessen's LA Tower Canard." What these two fail to appreciate is that the story of how enhanced interrogation broke up the West Coast plot is not my story - it is the official position of the intelligence community.
In my Washington Post piece, I was citing the very documents which President Obama released, which quote the CIA saying that interrogation with enhanced techniques "led to the discovery of a KSM plot, the ‘Second Wave,' to ‘use East Asian operatives to crash a hijacked airliner into' a building in Los Angeles." The memo released by Obama goes on the explain that "information obtained from KSM also led to the capture of Riduan bin Isomuddin, better known as Hambali, and the discovery of the Guraba Cell, a 17-member Jemmah Islamiyah cell tasked with executing the ‘Second Wave.'"
