Ex-CIA chiefs slowed ‘torture memos’ release (but Traitor Obama did it anyway!)

msnbc ^ | 4/17/2009 | ap

[tobyhill]

Four former CIA directors opposed releasing classified Bush-era interrogation memos, officials say, describing objections that went all the way to the White House and slowed release of the records.

Former CIA chiefs Michael Hayden, Porter Goss, George Tenet and John Deutch all called the White House in March warning that release of the so-called "torture memos" would compromise intelligence operations, current and former officials say. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity in order to detail internal government discussions.

President Barack Obama ultimately overruled those concerns after internal discussions that intensified in the weeks after the former directors intervened. The memos were released Thursday.

[ataDude]

Yet another treasonous act from ROTUS.

[Cementjungle]

...warning that release of the so-called "torture memos" would compromise intelligence operations...

Well, that's the whole point.

[Carley]

The axis of evil has a friend in the White House.

God help America.

[acapesket]

Can we impeach this commie dimwit yet? Isn’t an IQ a requirement as TOTUS?

[J40000]

He’s STILL campaigning against Bush!

[tobyhill]

In less than 48 hours Obama just proved what many were saying, he's a traitor.

[vetvetdoug]

I remember a book called None Dare Call It Treason. If it were written today, all they would have to do is take the news off the front pages of the New York Times reporting on the Treasonista In Chief, Obama.

[NoLibZone]

Released them but refuses to prosecute.

Shows us why he released them.

There is enough to start impeachment.

DHS report and now this.

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping

[tobyhill]

I’m a vet, you’re a vet and millions of others are vets and we just got called terrorist by this traitorous administration

[areukiddingme1]

Four former CIA directors opposed releasing classified Bush-era interrogation memos — The left’s response, applause.

Valerie Plame — The left loses it’s collective mind...moral equivalency?

[tobyhill]

He is hellbent on destroying this country and people better wake up quick before it’s all gone.

[classified]

Has there been any other President in the History of the U.S. to do this very thing that Obama did today? Just curious! I’m betting that Carter came close to doing this but did he or anyone else do something in the realm of this?

[TribalPrincess2U]

A Clinton move. Take the heat off ones self by distraction.

[tobyhill]

Obama’s feeling a backlash of immense proportion from the CIA and they will never forget what he just did. They may even refuse a direct order from him just to keep him from throwing them under the bus later.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Let’s hope so.

[Sudetenland]

Not only is he stupid, he is gutless as well...he was concerned about the consequences of releasing the files, but figured the ACLU would win the case...wouldn't even fight for what he claimed to believe.

What a total f...head!

[tobyhill]

I know it’s true. I know a former agent who still has contacts and just today he told me of the fear in the agency.

[danamco]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEnaAZrYqQI

[tobyhill]

He's just using the ACLU and this so-called objections as his excuse out of responsibility.

[Tucson]

Only Congress can impeach. The people can only rebel. ...

[WilliamofCarmichael]

I oppose releasing classified Bush-era interrogation memos!

Don't give Janet Renolitano any ideas how to interrogate right wing extremists!

.. and keep those classified Clinton-era Waco documents away from her! Please!

[HotLead61]

Obama’s feeling a backlash of immense proportion from the CIA and they will never forget what he just did.

He sure is making lots of new enemies, seemingly every day. It could end up helping us out in the long run, as more & more people start to wake up.

[Gator113]

This craven lickspittles assault on our country is beneath contempt.

[PA-RIVER]

So sad.... when DC explodes in a nuclear fireball ... will we be happy that we didn’t slap any prisoners?

If we just called is S&M, Janet the Dike would have approved it.

[PA-RIVER]

So sad.... when DC explodes in a nuclear fireball ... will we be happy that we didn’t slap any prisoners?

If we just called is S&M, Janet the Dike would have approved it.

[Syncro]

LOL@torture.

No biggie, give a heads up to the terrorists so they can figure out how to respond and resist the old outdated interrogation techniques then hit them with some new ones.

Our guys on the ground are pretty smart

The “intelligence” and lack of military savvy of “Present” Obama doesn't trickle down, it stops right at a line drawn in the sand called “reality”

The trickle tickle is for the Matthews', Olbermanns and the Madd OW!s

[Marysecretary]

Obama is a Muslim and because of that is against the CIA and the United States of America. His priorities are Muslim priorities, not OURS.

[New Perspective]

Released them but refuses to prosecute.

This is the same tactic a detective might use. Release a key suspect along with a BIG "Thank you for your cooperation" and then let's the street know it.

This is zero getting dirty work done without getting his hands dirty. When I see this man I am looking directly at the devil himself.

[New Perspective]

Released them but refuses to prosecute.

This is the same tactic a detective might use. Release a key suspect along with a BIG "Thank you for your cooperation" and then let's the street know it.

This is zero getting dirty work done without getting his hands dirty. When I see this man I am looking directly at the devil himself.

[bruinbirdman]

"This is zero getting dirty work done without getting his hands dirty."

It's a little more sinister than that but no less dirty tricks.

Recall that a day or two before these top secret "torture techniques" were released, Obama allowed a Gitmo inmate to make a personal call to al-Jazeera where he described in detail his being tortured. That story made headlines around the world.

A few days later, Osama releases secret memos on Bush's torture techniques.

yitbos

[georgia peach]

I ,too, would like to know why they were released.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Released them but refuses to prosecute.

Prosecute whom? This is one of those 'when did you stop beating your wife?' routines.

[ataDude]

It is about time to try that old “panties-on-the-head” trick to see if that still works.

[ataDude]

The Times is no longer needed for security leaks. They are now officially redundant.

[freema]

The “intelligence” and lack of military savvy of “Present” Obama doesn't trickle down, it stops right at a line drawn in the sand called “reality”

That's one for the annals of time, Syncro.

[Ekoa]

He probably cut a deal with Spain and promised to release ‘evidence’ they could use in their Bush Cheney trial.

[Jeff Chandler]

Obama’s feeling a backlash of immense proportion from the CIA and they will never forget what he just did.

Just from the directors. The lefties in the CIA who loved to leak to the Times are probably applauding.

[Jeff Chandler]

I ,too, would like to know why they were released.

To reinforce his meme: The U.S. sucked-until now.

[New Perspective]

Thank you for the reminder, I forgot about the phone call. That makes it even worse. The toilet is flushed and we are circling the bowl.

[Mr. Jazzy]

The only things that come close to this were the Church Hearings in the early ‘70’s. A lot of anti-anything-having-to-do-with-Nixon feelings.

[blasater1960]

God help America

Nope...He wont help now. Hussein the baby killer has also turned his back on Israel.

[Marine_Uncle]

Yet the shit head and his clown group are so tight lipped on anything regarding their combined near or actual criminal level activities over the years. There most probably as rotten as the Clinton’s where/are.

[DLfromthedesert]

Obama is the un-president; it’s official.

[McGavin999]

Obama’s feeling a backlash of immense proportion from the CIA and they will never forget what he just did. They may even refuse a direct order from him just to keep him from throwing them under the bus later.

Now they know what President Bush felt when they betrayed him.

[tflabo]

BOZerO is performing his communist-in-chief duties very well. I hope the idiots who voted for this vapid demagogue are happy about it.

[kellynla]

Hussein is gonna get a lot of Americans killed unnecessarily because of his stupidity!

Semper Fi,
Kelly

[JohnBrowdie]

ironic that this guy left almost no paper trail behind him in his days as a state senator or US senator.

ordinarily, I would caution him to be careful how he treats former presidents, since all presidents become former presidents sooner or later . . . but this guy hasn't left any footprints in anything he has done in life. hell, we aren't even sure we have seen his real birth certificate.