When you live in a glass house………
April 23rd, 2009
Representative Pete Hoekstra writing in the Wall Street Journal takes the Obama administration to task on the release of formerly highly classified information defining the enhanced interrogation program:
Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair got it right last week when he noted how easy it is to condemn the enhanced interrogation program “on a bright sunny day in April 2009.” Reactions to this former CIA program, which was used against senior al Qaeda suspects in 2002 and 2003, are demonstrating how little President Barack Obama and some Democratic members of Congress understand the dire threats to our nation.
George Tenet, who served as CIA director under Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, believes the enhanced interrogations program saved lives. He told CBS’s “60 Minutes” in April 2007: “I know this program alone is worth more than the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency put together have been able to tell us.”
Last week, Mr. Blair made a similar statement in an internal memo to his staff when he wrote that “[h]igh value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa’ida organization that was attacking this country.”
Yet last week Mr. Obama overruled the advice of his CIA director, Leon Panetta, and four prior CIA directors by releasing the details of the enhanced interrogation program. Former CIA director Michael Hayden has stated clearly that declassifying the memos will make it more difficult for the CIA to defend the nation.
It was not necessary to release details of the enhanced interrogation techniques, because members of Congress from both parties have been fully aware of them since the program began in 2002. We believed it was something that had to be done in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to keep our nation safe. After many long and contentious debates, Congress repeatedly approved and funded this program on a bipartisan basis in both Republican and Democratic Congresses.
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While the paragraph in bold above proves that this is nothing more than a political move aimed at appeasing a left voting block, Mr. Hoekstra’s final paragraph sums up this entire situation perfectly:
Perhaps we need an investigation not of the enhanced interrogation program, but of what the Obama administration may be doing to endanger the security our nation has enjoyed because of interrogations and other antiterrorism measures implemented since Sept. 12, 2001.
What exactly will this administration do if they are faced with an imminent attack on this country? Do they believe you can simply talk your way out of another 9-11 or worse?
As for investigations or “show trials,” either one does nothing more than embolden an enemy who under the former administration knew there would be a steep price to be paid for an attack on our homeland.
What is it they fear now?
Written by Sue
Posted in 4 Responses to “When you live in a glass house………”
They fear nothing because Obama has told his “handler” there is nothing to fear.
Yes, I said the word “handler”. Strange, isn’t it that I once thought McCain was the Manchurian Candidate who was brainwashed and programmed to act a certain way when given the subconscious signal? Instead it seems to me to be Obama.
Yes, call me crazy. Maybe I am, but that bow to the King of Mecca seemed to me to be a message to his “handler” that he was proceeding as ordered and could be counted on to do what it is they want him to do, i.e. destroy this country with every means possible.
How to explain a guy who traveled to Pakistan when it was illegal for an American citizen to do so? He was poor. Where did he get the money for this exotic travel to a Muslim terrorist training ground? Who paid for the trip?
When he comes back, instead of going to his junior college in California he is suddenly bright enough and rich enough to be accepted at not one, but two ivy league colleges. He goes to Columbia and then takes his graduate work at Harvard Law.
Who sponsored and paid for his tuition and living expenses?
When he graduates from Harvard Law, after being the editor of the Harvard Law Review but not having any writings to show for it, he is supposedly offered a great job with a large law firm.
Instead, this poor man wants to go to Chicago, of all places and work as a “community organizer” for a paltry $12,000 per year.
He gets the right girlfriend/wife and begins to be noticed in the Chicago political circles. He gets elected to the state senate by destroying every other candidate in the primary and having them bumped off the ticket.
He does not stand out in the state senate but decides to run for US Senate with the Chicago Democratic political machine backing him. It doesn’t help that the press discloses some dirty laundry about his opponent’s divorce and the opponent drops out and Alan Keys is encouraged to carpet bag his way into Illinois politics. Result: Landslide for Obama. Just as planned.
He is not distinguished in the US Senate but decides to run for president after 2 years in named senate. He knocks off all competitors one by one as planned and then knocks off the republican candidate by making his vice presidential choice the object of the election.
The people are satisfactorily mesmerized and they elect him by hook or by crook. Some because of his race, because of guilt or pride. It doesn’t matter because he’s the one who brought it up all the time.
Meanwhile, he manages to pay off his and his wife’s student loans and we still see nothing in writing to show us what kind of scholar he was.
We can’t see a certified vault copy of his birth certificate because he has lawyers who have spent millions suppressing this information.
We can’t see college records because they might say something he doesn’t want us to know. Maybe he’s really not eligible to be president because he wasn’t really born in the United States. But, if it comes to light now there will be riots in the streets because the “people” won’t stand for it. He’s charismatic and he has changed the view of the US in three short months and three short trips. Changed the view for the worst.
But, hey, you’re getting a few bucks more in your paycheck this year and a $250 buyout on your Social Security check for now. Let’s not be too greedy. Be happy the Great One has deemed you worthy of his largesse. Only it’s your largesse and that of your great-great-great grandchildren for genearations to come. Wait til the bill comes due next year. By then the old snake charmer should have you even more completely under his spell and can do whatever he wants. Not that he can’t now. In the meantime, wait for Bush 43 and Cheney to be dragged to The Hague to stand trial for “war crimes” and no one will protest it.
This is the way the world ends,
This is the way the world ends.
This is the way the world ends.
Not with a bang, but a whimper.
Don’t say nobody told you.
J, those are a lot of questions that should have been answered! The press is guilty about not digging and reporting the truth.
Cheney has called for all the memos to be released so that the results can be shown. This was done so selectively, just for political purposes.
The Dems don’t even bother to think or care about the consequences. Their greatest concern is their own power.
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This man is so weak he cannot hold a position for more than a day on any topic, but when he makes foolish moves in reference to our national security then he has taken it to another level.
He has a sworn duty to protect and defend this country. Maybe he needs someone to remind him of the words he spoke when he placed his hand on the Bible.
When you have intelligence officials and US military engaged in the protection of this country, they deserve to feel as though they do so with the blessing of their (and I say this with heavy heart) Commander in Chief.