EXACTAMUNDO!
Posted on 08/30/2009 4:46:10 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
After pledging during last year's presidential campaign, and as recently as the spring, not to re-visit the past, the Obama administration, in the person of Attorney General Eric Holder, has named a special prosecutor to go after CIA interrogators who pried information from terrorist suspects, preventing more deadly assaults on the country.
Before the hard Left assumed power, anyone engaged in protecting America by interrupting terrorist plans might have expected to receive a commendation. Now they could face jail time. And somewhere in a cave in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden rejoices. By any objective standard, releasing terrorists from prison and prosecuting their interrogators is nuts. How can these actions fulfill the president's oath to defend the country?
The Justice Department wants to apply new interrogation rules to methods that were used and approved during the Bush administration. This is like lowering the highway speed limit to 55 mph and then giving speeding tickets to people who drove 65 mph when the higher speed was legal.
What is to be gained from going after CIA interrogators who thought they were operating within the law and defending the country? Doesn't the white wine and Brie set understand that a terrorist won't discriminate between people with jelly for a backbone and those with backbones of steel? Do they really think they will escape death by being nice to killers who use our laws against us in order to replace those laws with theirs? Islamic terrorists repeatedly say this is their goal and they have demonstrated it enough by their actions that only a fool would doubt them.
In Malaysia, a Muslim woman awaits a public caning because she was seen drinking beer. "Honor killings," genital mutilation and other forms of abuse against women occur throughout the Islamic world. Hate is taught to young children in some Palestinian textbooks and on TV. Fundamentalist imams envision the downfall of the West and its subordination to Islam by force. Only a deranged person would believe that giving terrorists a cup of tea and the right to manipulate our legal system so they can kill again will turn them into pacifists who will study war no more.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney continues to courageously say what needs to be said about this ongoing war. In a statement to The Weekly Standard, Cheney said, "The documents released Monday clearly demonstrate that the individuals subjected to Enhanced Interrogation Techniques provided the bulk of intelligence we gained about al-Qaida." That we gained critical information by firing a gun in an adjacent interrogation room, or by displaying a chainsaw, or even choking a detainee thought to possess critical information ought to be a lesser concern than the number of lives saved because of information these men gave up.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), one of the few liberals who comprehends what we face, issued a statement: "I respectfully regret the decision by Attorney General Holder and fear our country will come to regret it, too, because an open-ended criminal investigation of past CIA activity, which has already been condemned and prohibited, will have a chilling effect on the men and women agents of our intelligence community whose uninhibited bravery and skill we depend on every day to protect our homeland from the next terrorist attack."
Lieberman added, "Career prosecutors in the Justice Department have previously reviewed allegations of abuse and concluded that prosecution was not warranted, with the exception of a CIA contractor who has already been convicted." One can only conclude that politics has trumped common sense at Justice.
CIA Director Leon Panetta courageously defended his agency against allegations by Speaker Nancy Pelosi that the CIA had lied to her. In protecting the CIA, Panetta fulfilled his oath of office. Now that he and his agency have been emasculated, Panetta ought to resign in protest. Many would consider resignation an even greater act of courage and the ultimate expression of patriotism.
The CIA needs to tell Washington to stick it in their ear. What will Washington do......start a new CIA?
isn’t it obama’s job to try to fire those that interrogated terrorists?
EXACTAMUNDO!
Sniff, sniff at post #3.
They ought to give their Name, Rank and Serial Number. Then the Obama Administration will have to decide whether to waterboard them.
Didn’t someone recently go to jail for outing a CIA employee??
:-(
No, this has nothing to do with law. This is Fascism.
I wonder what Americans will think when the next terrorist attack turns their children and grandchildren into RADIATED CINDERS!!
No, Libby, he went to jail for a different recollection than Tim Russert. God then intervened on Tim Russerts behalf.
Reminds me of the movie “Breaker Morant” where the men were executed for following the orders of their superiors.
Everything he does is Throwing a bone to the Left wing,best example is his trillion dollar Reparations package billed as a stimulus ,package . He knew the Country would revolt if he called it Reparations ,how else to explain 5 Billion dollars to ACORN but no one Has the Guts to call him on it
bttt
When I then replied that I thought this thing was a bad business and that no good would come of it. She then tried to duck and hide by saying that she "didn't want to go there."
I retorted "you already went there!" I then remarked that this thing will go in unforeseen directions and the consequences would be dire. I wish that I had remembered to note that Nancy Pelosi should be held culpable as well.
The worst part of it is not that she is a bright, educated woman. No, the worst part of it is that she works as a database administrator for an intelligence community contractor!
I guess that she is "only" a DBA--and not a true member of the community.
DOG!!!
What would FDR do — or LBJ do — or JFK do — shoot, even Jimmy Carter? (Mentioning only Democrats on purpose)
Obama does not need to be dragging the CIA through public mud even if he thought there were hugh and series problems, which seems far from being the case!
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