We only tortured 100 so it's okay

CIA Director Michael Hayden "praised" the CIA's system of rendition and secret prisons at the CFR today. His primary defense appears to be one of degree, saying that only 100 people had been subjected to the system of secret prisons.

And then he engages in a little dissembling.

The CIA director said 70 percent of the information contained in the National Intelligence Estimate on the terrorist threat, which was released in July, came from the interrogation of detainees.

Do you like the way that's structured? He cites a statistic, 70% of intel through interrogations which doesn't say whether those interrogated were in the secret prisons or not. Also, there's no way to know if that information would have been revealed without the secret prisons. (And of course, no way to check 70%)

(Oh, and by the way, big courage for doing this on a Friday when all the world is talking about Iraq.)