From an email floating around the Hill:
During his 100-day commemorative press conference last evening, President Obama criticized the enhanced interrogation techniques because he asserted, without any empirical support, that "we could have gotten that same information without resorting to these techniques." In further detail, he then claimed that "the public reports and public justifications for these techniques . . . [don't] answer the core question, which is, could we have gotten that same information without resorting to these techniques." In actuality, the OLC memos the President released publicly do answer that core question specifically, as they reflect the CIA position "that [the CIA] would have been unable to obtain critical information from numerous detainees, including KSM and Abu Zubaydah, without these enhanced techniques." Memorandum for John A. Rizzo, CIA Senior Deputy General Counsel, from Steven G. Bradbury, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, pp. 8-9, dated May 30, 2005 (released Apr. 16, 2009).