Posted on 04/20/2009 6:31:22 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
President Barack Obama made his first visit to the Central Intelligence Agency on Monday in an attempt to calm an uproar among America's spies over his release of secret memos about interrogation techniques.
"Don't be discouraged by what's happened the last few weeks. Don't be discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we have made some mistakes - that's how we learn," Mr Obama said in a speech at the agency's headquarters.
"So I want to make a point that...I understand that it's hard when you are asked to protect the American people against people who have no scruples and would willingly and gladly kill innocents."
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
"When you make this public you define for al-Qaeda the limits of the playbook we would use against them. This allows them to prepare themselves.
"Part of the problem is that this administration can't control themselves in terms of continuing to throw mud at their predecessors. The decision seemed to be political."
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Mr Hayden, a former Air Force general appointed by Mr Bush but well regarded within the CIA and viewed as a non-partisan intelligence professional, added that the methods were effective.
"Most of the people who oppose these techniques want to be able to say, 'I don't want my nation doing this ... and they didn't work anyway.' That back half of the sentence isn't true," he said.
"The use of these techniques against these terrorists really did make us safer, it really did work," he said.
The CIA did a COUP on Bush....it’s FILLED with TRAITORS!!
“The decision seemed to be political.”
There you have it in a nutshell. Pure politics.
I’m sure Obama’s visit will calm everybody down.
Check out the video of the visit. It was the usual stacked audience — 99% black, all going nuts.
Obama ALWAYS does BOTH SIDES...ALWAYS...except for the LIFE issue....otherwise he plays GOOD COP to Bad Cops in his administration......THIS RELEASE by the BAD COPS and him going to the CIA as the GOOD COP is typical!
You’re kidding! I really HATE this Pres....but I REALLY HATE the IDIOTS that elected him even more.
Honestly, the sneaky little bitch is such a ego maniac that he really does believe that his presence will solve any problem.
Mr. Obama, lower your nose! Please.
And lets be clear these liberals have no use for ENFORCEMENT.
And btw lets go after as many CONSERVATIVE VETS as we can. They are a bunch of right wing extremists as well.
Panetta’s really, really effective, isn’t he?
Obama really whopped him and his advise not to release the CIA investigation tactics.
How do you spell “traitor?” Answer - OBAMA
OOOOO, I feel safe already....pendejo jerkoff!!!
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