CIA Memos Release Great News for al-Qaida
>> read the full article at Newsmax
h/t: Jordan Sekulow (ACLJ.org)Yesterday, President Obama left open the possibility of prosecuting former Bush administration officials for devising harsh interrogation tactics, saying it “is going to be more of a decision for the attorney general within the parameters of various laws and I don't want to prejudge that.”
...many of the same members of Congress who now act aghast at such polices [waterboarding, etc], including liberals like Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., were apprised of the methods being utilized on a regular basis while Bush was in office. So if Bush officials are going to be dragged before a political kangaroo court, Pelosi and crew should be sat in the defendants’ seats as well.
This is political grandstanding in its most despicable and contemptible form, because it isn’t just votes at stake, but lives. And the mere discussion of truth commissions and potential prosecutions has already harmed our nation by chilling future policies that could protect us.
Obama should have jumped at the opportunity to quash any speculation about pursuing these avenues, which would have demonstrated actual leadership rather than pandering to his self-loathing, morally bankrupt base.
Instead, he did what he has done his entire career: He acted like a politician, and, as such, he left the door open to a political sideshow.
Obama said we lost “our moral bearings” with use of harsh interrogation tactics. Yet, he thinks we owe repentance to the Muslim world and mutual respect to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Hugo Chavez, while consistently berating a predecessor who sought to preserve both our laws and American lives.
He doles out aid to terrorists in Gaza, but wants to cut funding for a missile defense program that could protect our allies. And he wants to raise taxes on millions of Americans while subsidizing delinquent homeowners.
How are those for moral bearings? Welcome to Obama’s America.
>>> Also good read:
Slow Roll Time At Langley
By David Ignatius
...after the release of interrogation memos that, in the words of one veteran officer, "hit the agency like a car bomb in the driveway." President Obama promised CIA officers that they won't be prosecuted for carrying out lawful orders, but the people on the firing line don't believe him. They think the memos have opened a new season of investigation and retribution.>> And WSJ:
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