The fascists are out in force today claiming that BL could not have been obtained without warrantless wiretapping and torture. Lots of details about the intelligence operation have been disclosed. This post has a good round up of different links.

John Yoo, the Justice Department lawyer who wrote the brief legalizing the techniques adopted by the George W. Bush administration, writing in the Wall Street Journal, claims bin Laden's death as vindication for those policies: "President George W. Bush, not his successor, constructed the interrogation and warrantless surveillance programs that produced this week's actionable intelligence."

There seems to be a dispute about the underlying facts there. One's version of the facts seems to hinge on one's partisan allegiances.