Posted on 12/11/2014 7:44:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
And here we go: Right off the deep end.
It’s as predictable as the sunrise. As those who are genuinely and honestly outraged over the revelations contained within the Senate Intelligence Committee’s “torture” report strain themselves in the effort to adopt a posture of unparalleled indignation, they inevitably overreach.
So far, the best example of this kind of indulgence in regrettable hyperbole in the pursuit of moral preening is Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA). In an appearance on MSNBC on Wednesday, Speier reacted to the release of the SSCI’s report on the CIA’s Bush-era enhanced interrogation program by saying America’s clandestine services agency should issue a formal apology for the practice (h/t Gateway Pundit):
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“Every single page had something in the executive summary that shocked me,” the California Democrat said. “Whether it was the rehydration anally or keeping them sleep deprived for one-hundred and eighty hours with their hands over their head in shackles. That is not what this country is about and we have got to shut this down.”
When asked if the CIA should issue an apology, Speier replied “Absolutely.”
She seemed less inclined, however, to speculate on just how likely that outcome would be. “There’s an arrogance that exists within the CAI that has to be reined in,” Speier said. “I would certainly hope that they would recognize that, with some soul-searching, that they have got to come clean on this.”
On Thursday, MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin pressed self-described socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to say whether or not he agreed with Speier. Even Sanders declined to go as far as the Bay Area Democrat.
The idea that the CIA should apologize, or perhaps an American representative on their behalf, is not necessarily dismissible off hand. It is, however, a complex issue which Speier declined to fully consider.
To whom should this apology be directed? Since all of the individuals subjected to EIT’s were not revealed in the SSCI report, would this be a blanket apology to anyone suspected of involvement in al-Qaeda who was interrogated by CIA operatives or their associates? If his were to occur, it might undermine the efforts to protect the identities of CIA operatives who engaged in questionable practices. Most of their names were redacted from the Senate committee’s report. If this is what Speier is advocating, that is the most ill-considered proposal we’ve heard from the left since at least Tuesday.
These complexities are why an apology will not be forthcoming, but Speier probably knew that. All she hoped to accomplish was to nurse her sense of moral superiority. Mission accomplished.
No, if we ever accidentally did anything to an innocent person, we should certainly apologize and offer some recompense, yes.
For an IslamoNazi/terrorista, we should only apologize if its then followed up with a swift bullet to the head.
Well, I feel better.
Why does the traitor not offer his own neck?
Why must others die?
And we think he ought to apologize for being a blithering didiot. Maybe he thinks if we do, they’ll(muzzies) apologize to the folks that decided to fly rather than burn in the WTC. Jerk!
You’d think after surviving an assassination attempt at the hands of the Jim Jones crowd, Speier would have a bit more sense. So much for that.
Play that one over and over! Democrats want America to apologize to TERRORISTS!!
Jackie, please shut up. Isn’t it time for you to retire anyway? She’s been a career politician since near 1978, when the Jim Jones disasters took place in Guyana. Jackie was with a Congressman who was later murdered right before the poisioned koolaid was served. Jackie has been prized ever since, and is used to getting her way. Not on this, Ms Spier.
another California dumbassed red ahole.
All those words are actually redundant.
The gang headed by Zer0 can run guns into Mexico, do drone strikes that do not always hit their mark and arm Libyan and Syrian rebels. When valuable intelligence is extracted from terrorists who beheaded, gang raped and got girls to set off body bombs for Allah, we are saying “Hail Marys” and throwing our CIA under the bus. Good night! Cry me a river!
Dear Rep. Speier,
Kiss my _ _ _! and
Du bist doof, schweinehund.
Just in case he doesn’t understand English, thought I’d throw a little German his way.
Where was this MORON on 9/11 in a Coma ?
Kiss KSM’s behind? Not bloody likely.
They are terrorist deniers.
As the old saying goes...
an eye for an eye...and now.
a head for a head!
Get with the program Diane!!
There were exactly 3. And each one was not a suspected terrorist... they were confirmed G-d damned terrorists who should have been tossed off the cliffs at Gitmo to the sharks and rocks. Seriously.
Stockholm syndrome— dude has probably reveled in it all these years (”why didn’t I get it?”) not acknowledging the actions to rescue or the guts it took.
She got shot multiple times alongside Congressman Leo Ryan. Ryan, of course, didn’t make it.
We should remind him how lucky he is that we didn’t kill him on the battlefield like any other enemy combatant
Put the apologies in drones and send them to their entire families at once.
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