Posted on 09/25/2009 12:08:13 PM PDT by jazusamo
The top Republican on the Senate intelligence committee has pulled out of the panel's bipartisan review of Bush-era terrorist interrogation techniques, saying Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.'s criminal investigation into the CIA undermines the committee's ability to interview witnesses.
"Had Mr. Holder honored the pledge made by the president to look forward, not backwards, we would still be active participants in the committee's review," said Sen. Christopher S. Bond of Missouri, the panel's vice chairman. "Instead, DOJ sent a loud and clear message that previous decisions to decline prosecution mean nothing and old criminal charges can be brought anytime against anyone — against these odds, what current or former CIA employee would be willing to gamble his freedom by answering the committee's questions?"
Since March, Mr. Bond had been working with Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, on the committee's review of U.S. detention and interrogation practices, including controversial techniques such as waterboarding. They have said their investigation was designed to figure out the policies, not to punish interrogators.
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Good. I wish they would all pull out.
Kit wakes up to the obvious.
Yep, this fiasco of Holder’s should have never started.
Senator Bond: patriot
Hussein Obama: communist
AJ Holder: evil toady
Any questions?
I agree. The whole thing makes me cringe ....from the very beginning.
And none too soon.
Another negative for Onada. When will it stop? But he doesn’t seem to care anyway.
“Good. I wish they would all pull out.”
Make that two of us.
I wish the intelligence community had been able to prevail on this administration’s common sense from the very beginning and avoided any investigation. What a disservice to those who serve in the intelligence communities. All of them.
this administration’s common sense
Objection: assumes facts not in evidence.
Colonel, USAFR
Point taken. Thank you. I needed that.
The list, ping
“”this administration’s common sense”
Objection: assumes facts not in evidence.”
Thanks for the chuckle :-)
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