Hmmm....I made an educated guess to Congressman King’s question in less than .5 seconds.
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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/027359.php
August 26, 2009
“Congressman Peter King on Obama Administration: “You wonder which side they’re on””
SNIPPET: “King: “You’re talking about threatening to kill a guy, threatening to attack his family, threatening to use an electric drill on him — but never doing it. You have that on the one hand — and on the other you have the [interrogator’s] attempt to prevent thousands of Americans from being killed” by Islamic jihadists.
Another, and particularly apt, Which-Side-Is-Obama-On Update: “King on Holder: ‘You wonder which side they’re on,’” by Ben Smith at Politico, August 25 (thanks to Benedict):
A “furious” Rep. Peter King, the hawkish, maverick Long Island Republican, blasted a “disgraceful” Eric Holder for opening an investigation of CIA interrogators and chided his own party for what he described as a weak response to the move in an interview just now with POLITICO.
“It’s bulls***. It’s disgraceful. You wonder which side they’re on,” he said of the attorney general’s move, which he described as a “declaration of war against the CIA, and against common sense.”
“It’s a total breach of faith, and either the president is intentionally caving to the left wing of his party or he’s lost control of his administration,” said King, the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Homeland Security and a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence.”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/881vlnwr.asp
“Eric Holder’s Anti-CIA Witch Hunt
Second-guessing career prosecutors for political gain.”
by Jennifer Rubin
09/07/2009, Volume 014, Issue 47
SNIPPET: “Holder pronounced himself obligated to “follow the facts and the law.” One critical fact, however, he entirely ignored: Professional prosecutors had already examined the allegations of CIA misconduct, conducted an inquiry, and made a determination—not to prosecute. (One contractor outside the interrogation program was prosecuted for assault.) Holder never mentioned that a task force (informally dubbed the “Detainee Abuse Task Force”) in the Eastern District of Virginia has already considered all of the applicable information, including the
CIA inspector general’s 2004 report made public last week. Following standard procedure, the task force drafted “declination memos” setting forth the rationale for not proceeding with prosecutions.
Those reasons were summed up in a letter from Principal Assistant Deputy Attorney General Brian Benczkowski to Senator Richard Durbin dated February 7, 2008. In each case, Benczkowski wrote, the decision rested on “one or more of the following reasons: insufficient evidence of criminal conduct, insufficient evidence of the subject’s involvement, insufficient evidence of criminal intent, and low probability of conviction.””