The White House continued its efforts to damage the Bush administration by releasing interrogation documents involving the CIA. It's hard to believe what good could come from making these interrogation documents public. This is another example of the far left wanting to defang the CIA. This is reminiscent of the Church Committee in 1975 damaging our intelligence community in the name of civil liberties. It seems as though the White House feels that terrorism is just something that Republicans have hyped and not a real threat to this country.
A former top official in the administration of President George W. Bush called the publication of the memos “unbelievable.”
“It's damaging because these are techniques that work, and by Obama's
action today, we are telling the terrorists what they are,” the
official said. “We have laid it all out for our enemies. This is
totally unnecessary. … Publicizing the techniques does grave damage to
our national security by ensuring they can never be used again — even
in a ticking-time- bomb scenario where thousands or even millions of
American lives are at stake."
“I don't believe Obama would intentionally endanger the nation, so it must be that he thinks either 1. the previous administration, including the CIA professionals who have defended this program, is lying about its importance and effectiveness, or 2. he believes we are no longer really at war and no longer face the kind of grave threat to our national security this program has protected against.”
“I don't believe Obama would intentionally endanger the nation, so it must be that he thinks either 1. the previous administration, including the CIA professionals who have defended this program, is lying about its importance and effectiveness, or 2. he believes we are no longer really at war and no longer face the kind of grave threat to our national security this program has protected against.”
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At first I thought it was just a favor for the far left, but he has them wrapped up anyway. So figured it must be a personal pride thing to try to damage President Bush and the coincidental followers of his philosophies. It's Stupid if not Lawlessness.
Posted by: Aaron Cook | April 17, 2009 at 05:38 PM