Destroying CIA Tapes Deserves a Thank You By Linda Chavez

Townhall.com ^ | 21 December 2007 | Linda Chavez

[org.whodat]

Is this the, you are a bigot, Linda Chavez, the illegal employer? She can pound sand, damn liberal!

[satan]

Same Linda Chavez, discredited political hack, that wants more illegals in Prince William County. Came out here to threaten “we the people.” Get a life Linda - quite living at the trough. Jorge won’t be el Preidente much longer.

[Michael.SF.]

I think it was Thomas Sowell who first expressed this thought, which I will paraphrase:

Why is it that those people who were upset, that the identity of a CIA operative was revealed by the Bush Administration, are the same ones that are upset at the CIA's destruction of tapes for the purpose of protecting the identity of CIA operatives?

[peggybac]

Uh, last I heard, Linda was a conservative.

[em2vn]

Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. took the lesson of Richard Nixon and his tapes to heart.

[enough_idiocy]

“Most Americans fully expected that the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were just the beginning of a terrorist war on American civilians.”

The beginning of a terrorist war on American civilians began long before that. At the WTC 2/26/93. In Iran in 1979.

[K-oneTexas]

Sometimes even the worst writer or opinion maker can say something that should be said. For instance: So what exactly did we expect the CIA to do when they captured high-level al-Qaida operatives? Read them their Miranda rights, provide them with free lawyers and place them in a cell with cable TV?

I've asked my liberal friends this same question and get no real answer. But if it's said enough maybe the rest, those in the silent seats, may begin to have a glimmer and speak up.

Several little tidbits stick out here, i.e.,. "seeking and receiving legal clearance".

Plus, do you think if this happened under the Clinton-Tenet Watch you would have heard a peep out of Congress. This as well as many other episodes are designed for one purpose ... so the Dems can vilify President Bush. They can't pass meaningful legislation nor do they want too.

[Mark was here]

Destroying the tape deprives our enemy’s in the Democratic Party another bat to bash America with.

[F-117A]

It is difficult to imagine what harm might have come from the release of the CIA interrogation tapes -- but there is no doubt that had they continued to exist, at some point they would have become public. The tapes' release would have jeopardized sources and methods used by the CIA, the most serious category of risk to American intelligence.

Ignore the message and attack the messenger (for some other shortcoming)?

[BallyBill]

I’m with you on this one Linda. We need more people like him.

[driveserve]

If it’s the Linda Chavez I think it is, she’s hardly a liberal. But for a moment, let’s assume she is. Have you an argument with the points raised in her article? If you do, then bring that on as opposed to an ad hominiem, name calling, non-sequiter post. I think that would raise the level of debate considerably, IMHO.

[3AngelaD]

I hate it when I agree with her, but she is absolutely right on this.

[peggybac]

http://www.lindachavez.org/

[K-oneTexas]

So what exactly did we expect the CIA to do when they captured high-level al-Qaida operatives? Read them their Miranda rights, provide them with free lawyers and place them in a cell with cable TV?

To add on ... we can see under the Clinton Watch that treating terrorists as criminals and expecting the law enforcement community to be the sole line of defense and capture them had worked so very well. /sarc

[Air Force Brat]

Well, I think the answer would be that they believe both acts were illegal.

Seems pretty simple to me.

[Paladin2]

Make every member of Congress personally responsible for government spending under Sarbanes-Oxley and we’ll talk later about the tapes.

[Hardastarboard]

Most Americans fully expected that the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon were just the beginning of a terrorist war on American civilians.

Yes, true, but I always thought it would be the Chinese who hit us, with maybe five or six simultaneous nuclear bombs in NY, DC, Chicago, LA, Dallas, and pick your own favorite liberal center of debauchery or two.