Posted on 08/25/2009 10:04:43 AM PDT by pissant
A "furious" Rep. Peter King, the hawkish, maverick Long Island Republican, blasted a "disgraceful" Eric Holder for opening an investigation of CIA interrogators and chided his own party for what he described as a weak response to the move in an interview just now with POLITICO.
"It’s bulls***. It’s disgraceful. You wonder which side they’re on," he said of the Attorney General's move, which he described as a "declaration of war against the CIA, and against common sense."
"It’s a total breach of faith, and either the president is intentionally caving to the left wing of his party or he’s lost control of his administration," said King, the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Homeland Security and a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
I am so angry about this I can barely type.
After Leon Panetta threw his own men (CIA is under his control) under the bus for Nancy Pelosi I can believe anything
Marc Rich. Nuff said.
We KOW which side the Obama admin is on, and its not the American people.
I mean KNOW.
I think it’s becoming blatantly obvious which side they are on. We knew what obama was a year ago. The press should be tarred and feathered and run out of this country what they did. They sold our country to the highest bidder and the bidder was a traitor that hates this country.
The sheople that chanted “yes we can” and “change” should be hanging their heads in shame if they care bout this country.
I know what side they’re on. They’re the enemy.
“’It’s a total breach of faith, and either the president is intentionally caving to the left wing of his party or he’s lost control of his administration,’...”.
There is another possibility for this apparent disconnect. “Craven liar” leaps to mind. But nobody in public office would be capable of that, would they? I might add that the current President has never had control of his administration. It is they who have had control of him.
I don't even wonder anymore, I for one am not wearing blinders.
Yet ANOTHER parallel with that presidential DISASTER of 30 years ago: Jimma Carter — and on the same issue.
Y’all recall this?
Back around 1975, DEMOCRAT (who woulda guessed?) Senator Frank Church held hearings on the operation of the CIA and found that — HORRORS — taxpayer money was being paid to foreign citizen snitches who had CRIMINAL RECORDS for vital human, on-the-ground intel on the activities of those who were planning the destruction of this country. Church commented at one session that “Gentlemen do not read other gentlemens’ mail.” Interesting how Church and his fellow Dimocraps viewed men who would destroy America “gentlemen.” Glad that a**hole didn’t serve during the run-up to WWII. (Although he may have handled the “delayed” communication to Pearl Harbor that the Japanese were on the way!)
When he became president, Jimmy Carter fully supported and enforced the Church Amendment.
The sorts of people who consort with — and, more importantly, get cozy with — the leaders of terrorist organizations are not normally choir boys. Church moved the legislature to PROHIBIT any US funds going to these potential informants. Since it can take upwards of 20 years for these guys to move close enough to the top to be seriously valuable, we had virtually NO humintel on bin Laden’s plans for 9-11!
While there are still Church-like imbeciles (Reid, Pelosi, et al come to mind) at the levers of power here, I THINK the law has been changed.
While the NSA wiretaps and eavesdrops on US citizens HERE, isn’t it comforting to know that in just 15 or 20 years we may be able to thwart a plan hatched THERE for some future 9-11 with information gathered THERE.
Now our guys are required to MERANDIZE enemy combatants NOT wearing uniforms and displaying NO recognizable military patches, etc., etc., all of which, de facto, removes them from the protections afforded under the Geneva Convention. In past conflicts, the Geneva Convention permits the capturing forces to shoot these guys on the spot. Of course, any trooper caught doing that would be up on charges in the morning.
Anybody else see a pattern here?
The morons now “leading” (and I use that term very loosely) the United States have finally achieved something I thought impossible: They’ve tied BOTH our hands behind our backs. They will get MILLIONS of us KILLED before they are removed from office – hopefully in 2010 and 12.
“Whom God would destroy, He first makes mad.”
The MADNESS continues. Surely, our destruction awaits.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQGRf2wo2_w
Good for King! Now where are the rest of the republicans? I am starting to get just as upset with our party as I am the lying traitorous bunch in the WH!! Where in the hell are they? Obama is shredding our constitution every day and most of them are AWOL!!
I wonder how many of us will “disappear” from the streets of DC on 9/12? That’s where 0 and his socialist/communist friends are plunging in a no holds barred race.
No, I KNOW what side they are on, as do most Americans. Apparently the only morons that do NOT know what side they are on are their "good friends" on the other side of the isle. Dear God I loathe these people.
Senate Republicans voted to confirm Holder though, so they should share some blame.
Glenn Beck has been right all along...Obama has always told us exactly what he was planning to do, we just have to learn to pay attention.
I never wondered.
I no longer wonder.
I don’t wonder - I know. They are America’s domestic enemies.
0Bama the Oath Breaker.
The whole bunch of Rinos up there need to be sent home come next election!
Yep.
I like Peter King. He can be a bulldog. But there are scads of GOPers that really need to grow some balls. Of the conservative variety.
That is a conflict of interest that the Attorney General should investigate.
/sarcarsm off
Surprise, surprise.
Continuing his tradition of “pall’n around with terrorists”, Obama proves Palin right.
Disgraceful. But, like many of his misteps, he is opening the eyes of the people in this country.
Generally, when a government goes out of control a lot of backs get stood against a wall, and then a thing called, ‘revolution’, begins.
I just called Congressman King’s office to say “Thank You!” for speaking the truth.
The number is 202-225-7896.
That was after I called my congressman and senators and told them that Holder has to be opposed in this non-sensical witchhunt.
You can be angry and stew, or take action. Call.
Quoting a FReeper during the campaign:
"Of course Obama loves his country, it’s just that Sarah Palin loves mine."
Peter King was making waves for a long time, touting himself up as a Senate candidate against Kristin Gillibrand for 2010. He seems to have backed away from that now, especially since he knows he'd get steamrolled by George Pataki if the two of them were in the primary. Any chance we could talk him into running for NY's other Senate seat, currently held by Chuck Schumer and also up for re-election in 2010? Why Pete you're such an articulate GOP leader, no doubt you'd defeat Schumer in a landslide. Run, Pete Run!! Heh heh heh.
Don’t have a KOW, man.
I don’t wonder a bit. The democrats are the enemy within and if allowed will destroy America for their own power. I would love to know how much $$ they get from our enemies to do this?
Frankly, the fact that not one in each house had the nads to ask the eligibility question tells me they are all worthless along with the 9 at SCOTUS.
I have no problem with that formula.
Steve King is in the top 1% of politicians, IMO. Along with Hunter, DeMint, Pence, Inhofe, etc.
Well, I wouldn’t want the CIA mad at me, I figure there are some good men still in power there somewhere who won’t take this sitting down or bending over for Zero and Holder.
Gosh, I miss Bush, but gee I miss Clinton
I have been very pleasantly surprised by Rep. Peter King. I remember when he was a RINO, but since Obama was elected, it seems he grew a pair.
I don’t have a KOW, but I do have a KAW.
LOL! Bambi might as well be Bin Laden, he and his goons are the enemy, no doubt about that.
Glad to see we still agree on most things. ;*)
When an opponent declares, “I will not come over to your side,” I calmly say, “Your child belongs to us already... What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.”
-Adolf Hitler
‘You wonder which side they’re on’
...I don’t
Is it time?
I just called his office and thanked him for his effort re: this matter!!!
And did you hear that ACLU lawyers were showing pictures of CIA agents to Gitmo detainees?
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