Former CIA director Michael Hayden was on Fox News Sunday this morning. Via The Hill:
Hayden said that those who object to the CIA's ability to use such enhanced interrogation techniques are acting "honorably," but are avoiding the "inconvenient truth" that the use of such techniques have made the nation safer. "It's difficult for me to judge the president," Hayden said. "I don't think I would do that. But [White House Press Secretary Robert] Gibbs' comments [that ‘it is the use of those techniques, the use of those techniques in the view of the world, that have made us less safe'] bring another reality fully in front of us. It's what I'll call, without meaning any irreverence to anybody, a really inconvenient truth." Most of the people who oppose these techniques want to be able to say, "‘I don't want my nation doing this, which is a purely honorable position," Hayden continued. "The facts of the case are that the use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work. The president's speech, President Bush in September of '06, outlined how one detainee led to another, led to another, with the use of these techniques."
It's worth reading the entire transcript.