Posted on 04/20/2009 5:31:05 PM PDT by tobyhill
President Obama, making his first trip to C.I.A. headquarters, acknowledged Monday that agency officials had expressed ‘’understandable anxiety and concern” about his decision to release confidential memos detailing brutal interrogation techniques used by agency operatives, and urged employees not to be discouraged about the ensuing uproar.
“Don’t be discouraged by what’s happened in the last few weeks,” the president said. “Don’t be discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we’ve made some mistakes. That’s how we learn.”
Mr. Obama banned the harsh techniques on his second day in office, and he acknowledged that his decision may have made the job of C.I.A. operatives more difficult. But he argued that difficulty is the price of upholding American democratic ideals.
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I hope Obamachev isn’t discouraged when NYC goes boom and a mushroom cloud appears on his watch.
SOB Obama needs to fire the Gibbs and just get Baghdad Bob to do the talking.
The lies just keep piling up.
Oh, the terrorists are *loving* the messiah with this one.
Selling out America to the enemy.
Will they strike the New York Times? I’d personally hold a laser pointer on it for them.
100 million dollar budget cuts? Trillion dollar budget increases? Exposing the CIA’s interrogation methods? Kissing the ring of a King? Palling around with a South American dictator? Wrecking the budget? Nationalizing the banks?
Does anyone spot a trend here?
The gall. The unmitigated gall this man has.
Screw you FUBO ... if I were CIA ... I’d find a new job as what you may be authorized to do today may get you a prison sentence years later ... FUBO has NO honor and NO loyalty ... he is IMO a clear and present danger to everything this republic stands for and was based on. If he were a foreign entity doing this from another country ... we would have already declared war ...
What a sociopath......I wonder how many stress positions or sleep depro it would take to get him to tell the truth? Mabey just a few minutes of Limbaugh on the radio and taking away his pack of Kools....
At least he didn’t get a bunch of operatives killed by releasing their names to the public like Carter did.....yet.
As tortures go, most of this is pretty lame. I can’t bring myself to believe it’s the whole story. Boy Scouts could think up worse things.
ZERO wants to be a Communist dictator where he holds an election and gets 100% of the vote!
I encourage all CIA operatives to resign in protest of our current ‘TelePrompter-in-chief’.
I cannot believe the level of shamelessness in this man.
He’s setting them up along with everyone else involved.
Ten to one next on the Obama game plan is joining the World Court in prosecutions, which goes along with harmonization of financial and banking regs worldwide, and the eventual incorporation of foreign court rulings applied to our country.
Adios, CIA. You been punked.
*Don’t feel bad. We all been punked. And I didn’t even vote for him.
**Slang is so much more appropriate for the United States Presidential address, don’t you think?
Your comment is very dumb and very stupid. Ask the moderator to remove your idiotic post.
Yeah! Back to the Clitonian Days when intelligence didn’t matter.
No body’s out to get us. No problem.
I do have a sick sense of humor don’t I.
Oh my gosh, this clown really does think he's talking to a six year old kid.
What a smarmy, pompous, imperious, sententious, conceited, condescending, snooty, arrogant, self-important twit.
You're being kind.
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