Truth and Consequences: Will we still have security after Senator Leahy’s commission stunt?

National Review Online ^ | March 13, 2009 | Andrew C. McCarthy

[Sergeant Tim]

The Judiciary Committee chairman has not had much to say about the Obama administration’s decision to release Binyam Mohammed, the al-Qaeda jihadist who was planning to carry out mass-murder attacks in American cities, who is now free and clear to live and plot in Londonistan. Leahy did, however, make time last week to conduct a hearing on his banana-republic scheme for a “non-partisan” — also non-elected, non-accountable — sideshow that would conduct an inquisition into the Bush administration’s counterterrorism policies. His model, he has explained, is South Africa’s “truth and reconciliation commission.”

Let’s roll that around the brain, shall we? Leahy refers to the post-apartheid retrospective conducted by a committee of human-rights activists on behalf of a newly reborn country that had endured years of de facto civil war stemming from systematic racism. South Africans had suffered three decades of torture, maiming, and assassinations, both from the regime’s secret police and from the terrorist insurgency of the African National Congress.

By contrast, about six years ago, while operating in foreign countries, the CIA waterboarded three alien terrorists who had choreographed attacks that killed thousands of Americans and who had been trained to resist conventional interrogation techniques. These terrorists were sufficiently high-ranking to have information about ongoing plots to commit further atrocities — which is why, when informed about the enhanced interrogation practices, top lawmakers from both parties, including Nancy Pelosi, admonished the agency to make sure they were being tough enough in seeking new intelligence from the prisoners.

[Sergeant Tim]

Patrick "Leaky" Leahy wants a truth commission? Let's do it, starting with him, waterboarded repeatedly until he comes clean about all the national secrets he himself has leaked to the press over the years.

[exit82]

That SOB is directly responsible for one or more of the stars on the wall in the CIA HQ lobby.

[This_far]

Leahy and security in the same headline?

[Rummyfan]

The Judiciary Committee chairman has not had much to say about the Obama administration’s decision to release Binyam Mohammed, the al-Qaeda jihadist who was planning to carry out mass-murder attacks in American cities, who is now free and clear to live and plot in Londonistan. Leahy did, however, make time last week to conduct a hearing on his banana-republic scheme for a “non-partisan” — also non-elected, non-accountable — sideshow that would conduct an inquisition into the Bush administration’s counterterrorism policies.

Every day I get angrier and angrier at the POS' in Congress....

[muawiyah]

Leahy is a very good target for this. He was the youngest person ever elected to the Senate, so he was there when funds to the South Vietnam government were cut off thereby enabling the North Vietnam Army to roll into the South and begin their program of extermination and genocide.

Over half a million Vietnamese are dead at the bottom of the South China Sea because Senator Leahy voted to have them murdered.

It will be quite pleasurable to see Leahy brought to the bar of justice and disposed of like the rubbish he really is.

[spookie]

He is also responsible for a number of our dead in Vietnam as well.