So Let's Start with the CIA issue, everyone by now is aware of the advanced interrogation memos released back in April, as well as the recent appointment of a federal prosecutor by Attorney General Eric Holder, charged with investing the CIA. I have no doubt this comes at the behest of the White house, despite the denials by President Obama. President Obama will undoubtedly claim these actions are being taken in the interest of transparency . Unfortunately the Presidents fondness for transparency, so far, only seems to apply to previous administrations. But while President Obama wraps himself in a cozy false cloak of high morality, he has voluntarily backed himself into a corner.
The Presidents executive order to close Gitmo in reality has no teeth, Attorney General Holder is on the record in saying that the Presidents Gitmo doctrine is "always subject to further revision," it is merely an order to examine closing the prison. The President has also continued the cowardly practice of rendition, which is when a prisoner, captured on the battlefield is remanded to custody of another country, usually in the middle east where interrogation methods are far more severe. It's hard to imagine anything more hypocritical.
The truth is Obama has done this for three reasons; the first and most obvious was to satisfy his left wing base, who have been clamoring for Obama to throw the Bush administration to the lions in regards to this matter. In the minds of partisan Democrats and the hardcore left a prosecution of any kind would be an ultimate reckoning for the 2000 election.
The Second reason is to set up a class A political pump fake. Why else would Obama drag this issue out in such a piece-meal fassion if not to keep the mainstream media stenographers busy while trying to distract the citizenry from his damaging agenda, most notably Health care, cap & trade and immigration.
Third he seeks to establish a dangerous and insidious precedent, criminalizing previous administrations or individuals that hold dissenting political views, an act that is UN-American in the extreme.
In his usual way Obama seeks to play both sides, releasing the memos but claiming he would not seek any prosecutions, he then did a 180 and said he would allow Eric Holder to pursue the matter and then the announcement of appointing a prosecutor while Obama frolics under a media blackout in Martha's vineyard. This was a critical error, Holder is nothing more than a political hack. This is the same man who argued in front of the supreme court that the American people do not have the right to bare arms. He is also the same person who sought a second opinion when his own justice department told him that the D.C. representation bill is unconstitutional.
Why is this a huge mistake? Because when push comes to shove the American people are not going to side with terrorists who helped to mastermind the killing of more than 3000 Americans, many of whom were burned alive or jumped to their deaths. They will not have empathy for cowardly terrorist who strap bombs to the handicapped instead of engaging our soldiers straight-up on the battlefield. The American people will not sympathise with terrorists who hold live beheadings of American civilians over the Internet. The fact of the matter is the suffering of the victims of these barbarians far outweighs any discomfort caused by the so called torture of described in these memos, not to mention the fact that valuable lifesaving information was extracted as a result of these methods.
Barack Obama has overplayed this hand, and if he pursues this to the end, putting the CIA on trial, the American people will see him as the man who gave aid and comfort to the enemy by trying to imprison those who were trying to protect us, no amount of rhetoric or media spin will be able to change that.
Anthony D Dolpies
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