The Magazine  What Was the CIA Up To?  There's one way to find
out: Obama should release the intelligence gained from the
interrogations.  May 4, 2009, Vol. 14, No. 31 • By REUEL MARC
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Text Alerts  This is a delicate business involving some
unpleasantness; it must be entrusted to the hands and tongues
and pens of men who are completely above suspicion and without
self-interest, for the weal or woe of the country depends on
them." So wrote Nizam al-Mulk, the great 11th-century Persian
vizier about the importance of good intelligence and good
intelligence officers. Unfortunately for this cultured,
Machiavellian minister, the intelligence wasn't good enough: In
1092 a Shiite holy warrior--a member of the dreaded Assassins--
got through his security and knifed the old man to death.  The
controversy surrounding the Central Intelligence Agency's use of
aggressive interrogation and black sites is probably in its
early stages, unfortunately. Unless the Americ