Posted by
Teri O'Brien on Saturday, September 19, 2009 12:32:05 PM
The Liberal Death Star (that would be the New York Times for those of you who don’t listen to the Teri O’Brien show, or who are new to this blog) Reports:
Seven former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency asked President Obama on Friday to shut down the new Justice Department inquiry into past abuses during interrogations of terrorism suspects, arguing that it “will seriously damage” the nation’s ability to protect itself.
In a letter to Mr. Obama, the former C.I.A. chiefs said the cases under study had already been examined by career prosecutors who found that no criminal charges were warranted. To reopen cases based on a change in which political party controls the government, they wrote, will make it harder for intelligence officers to take risks without worrying that some future attorney general might investigate them.
“Those men and women who undertake difficult intelligence assignments in the aftermath of an attack such as September 11 must believe there is permanence in the legal rules that govern their actions,” the men said in their letter.
They argued that the new inquiry would result in the disclosure of information about past operations that “can only help Al Qaeda” elude capture, and would convince foreign intelligence agencies that they could not trust the United States to protect secrets.
First of all, it’s distressing to learn that obvious racists (otherwise why would they criticize an Obama administration policy?) were in charge of the CIA, including two who worked for our first black president Bill Clinton. Second, who do these guys think they are, questioning the decisions the One’s hand-picked Attorney General makes? As if! As if they know more about national security than Eric Holder and B. Hussein Obama, two guys who understand that, sure national security is sort of important, but that the rights of guys named Abdul and Mohammed, not to mention this generation’s Bill Ayers are paramount. What if someone eavesdrops on them without the ACLU and some SoSo (as in Sonia “Affirmative Action Baby” Sotomayor) type federal judge’s approval? Is that what you want? Do you want some poor former cave-dwelling, previously lice-infested, rag-head wearing guy taken away from his orange peel chicken and rice pilaf so that some cruel interrogator can splash him with water? I didn’t think so.
Jimmy “King of the Useful Idiots” Carter understood that. He was horrified by the excesses committed by the CIA. Sure, his policies of emasculating and demoralizing our intelligence agencies probably led directly to 9/11, but I’m sure that, like Mary Jo Kopechne, who no doubt would have volunteered to give her life to ensure that Ted Kennedy could spend 47 years in the Senate, those who perished on 9/11 would have been happy to be incinerated to make sure that none of our country’s enemies rights were infringed or even threatened.
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