Obama Opens the Door to Prosecution of Interrogation Memo Authors

Wash Post ^ | 4/21/09 | staff

[pissant]

(snip)

Q: I want to ask you about the interrogation memos that you released last week; two questions. You were clear about not wanting to prosecute those who carried out the instructions under this legal advice. Can you be that clear about those who devised the policy? And then quickly on a second matter, how do you feel about investigations, whether special -- a special commission or something of that nature on the Hill to go back and really look at the issue?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, the -- look, as I said before, this has been a difficult chapter in our history, and one of the tougher decisions that I've had to make as president. On the one hand, we have very real enemies out there. And we rely on some very courageous people, not just in our military but also in the Central Intelligence Agency, to help protect the American people. And they have to make some very difficult decisions because, as I mentioned yesterday, they are confronted with an enemy that doesn't have scruples, that isn't constrained by constitutions, aren't constrained by legal niceties.

Having said that, the OLC memos that were released reflected, in my view, us losing our moral bearings. That's why I've discontinued those enhanced interrogation programs.

For those who carried out some of these operations within the four corners of legal opinions or guidance that had been provided from the White House, I do not think it's appropriate for them to be prosecuted.

With respect to those who formulated those legal decisions, I would say that that is going to be more of a decision for the Attorney General

[pissant]

The marxist mansourian quisling is out for blood

[DustyMoment]

The Obamoron continues to traipse down a VERY slippery slope. He doesn’t seem to understand that the day will come when he is out of office (1/20/2013) and the tables can/will be turned on him.

[HiTech RedNeck]

He’s punted it to Holder. Who will prolly hem and haw and do nothing.

[meandog]

Barack Hussein R0bespiere and reign of terror!

[FlingWingFlyer]

I think it is time for Americans to demand the prosecution of Obama, Reid and Pelosi. Spending our grandchildren’s future is unconstitutional. The U.S. Constitution says absolutely nothing about using the U.S. Treasury to solve Mexico’s poverty problems. If the liberals can sue the government everytime you turn around, I see no reason why conservatives can’t do the same thing.

[the invisib1e hand]

this is a nice, fat straw man, designed to keep you from paying attention to that man behind the curtain.

[CodeMasterPhilzar]

He is so desperate it is pathetic. Everything he's tried has been a disaster. International relations? One gaffe after another. Cabinet posts? One tax cheat after another (some 23 were delinquent on filing their 2008 taxes). Domestic policy? He's tripled the debt, and hasn't really stimulated anything other than a record setting protest in the form of nationwide tea parties.

This latest charade is just he and his cronies looking for (heck, grasping at straws for) any reason to keep looking back at the Bush administration and keeping them in the public eye in a negative way. It is a simplistic, idiotic means of attempting to distract the public from obama's repeated epic failures. He and his crew are so desperate, and they really have no other game plan, they are willing to commit what is really a treasonous act (aiding our enemies in a time of war) in order to keep the public distracted from their failures.

obama is the worst thing to happen to this Country since 9/11. At the rate he's going, he will surpass even that shortly.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Holder won’t do anything Obama doesn’t want him to do. Obama will stick his finger in the air to figure which way the wind blows before reaching a decision.

[Tublecane]

“Having said that, the OLC memos that were released reflected, in my view, us losing our moral bearings”

He’s right, you know. We’re all forgetting the famous Moral Bearings Act of 1964.

If they’re not going after the people whose responsibility it was to ultimately decide and implement policy, what grounds would they have to prosecute people with no real authority? People who merely suggested things.

What law have they broken? Are there laws against bad advice?

[KeyLargo]

"I don't know nuthin and I can prove it"

Robert Gibbs

Obama Ministry of Truth

[1PghLady]

This is a tough one. I cannot see how they can consider this as the enemy does not wear a uniform, they do not participate in any Geneva agreements, and our men & women in the CIA are bound to keep our country safe.

I have seen America dismantled in the First 100 days of our President’s rule. He has moved so far left and is so narasistically impaired that I wonder if he is “fit” to be president. After all it is all about him...

[Arthur McGowan]

There hasn’t been a single disaster during the Soetoro administration.

Goal: Destroy the United States.

Show me ANYTHING Soetoro has done that hasn’t brought him closer to that goal.

[Arthur McGowan]

I don’t know whether it’s a strategy, or the narcissism, but Soetoro has to CHANGE something daily. And running against Bush fits in with that. I think he’s going to find something DAILY for the next four years to CHANGE. Once he’s run out of policies to reverse, he’ll have people to prosecute.

Not only does it help to destroy the U.S., but each one of these reversals presents Soetoro as morally superior to Bush and all previous Presidents.

Maybe it’s just a matter of strategy and pathological narcissism dovetailing.