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Barack Obama visits CIA to calm uproar over release of secret memos
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^ | 20 Apr 2009 | Toby Harnden

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 ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bho; bho44; bhocia; chairmanmaobama; chairmanobama; cia; langley; maobama; obama; panetta
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To: potlatch

Not so. Many law enforcement do not support this, just the ones they had ready for their photo op. Commie brainwashing technique. See all the CIA agents LOVE Obama.


41 posted on 04/20/2009 7:24:00 PM PDT by Lady GOP
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To: PotatoHeadMick
"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.

The parts I heard were all just as patronizing.

42 posted on 04/20/2009 7:27:31 PM PDT by FourPeas (I am the pink flamingo on the great lawn of life.)
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To: PotatoHeadMick
“Don't be discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we have made some mistakes - that's how we learn,”

The only mistake America has made is YOU Hussein!

God help this nation. This is madness. Giving our enemies the heads up. Brilliant Hussein, just friggin’ brilliant.

This foolishness will bite him on the ass someday. That much is certain. Sadly it may mean deaths of Americans for Hussein to learn the lesson! Gosh we can all sleep better now huh?

43 posted on 04/20/2009 7:30:09 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: potlatch

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The security checks on the staff at the CIA must be easier to clear than for an illegal in LA with a leaf blower

Hussein Junior now has embedded civil servants at the Pentagon and the CIA and the FBI

When OBL hits the button again in the USA things will explode fast


44 posted on 04/20/2009 7:31:32 PM PDT by devolve ( - - - - - - - - - - - - - It is just another Pansy Scheme! - - -)
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To: Lady GOP
[just the ones they had ready for their photo op]

True. Obama has finally learned how to manage his photo ops. I had made slideshows of President Bush and Obams on their trips to Iraq. The Marines looked grim when Obama first went.

This past week I made a new slideshow of his recent trip where they screened the people and handed out cameras.

45 posted on 04/20/2009 7:34:08 PM PDT by potlatch (A burden shared gets lighter)
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To: PotatoHeadMick
"...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."

And you (the CIA) are forced to stand there with your hands in your pockets for fear of offending the bad guys, so your "leader" can (falsely) believe that the world loves him.

46 posted on 04/20/2009 7:35:58 PM PDT by keepitreal (Obama brings change: an international crisis (terrorism) within 6 months)
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To: Lady GOP

i'd love to see a montage of all the pix of that arrogant useless eater looking down his nose...
47 posted on 04/20/2009 7:37:26 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - Obama is basically Jim Jones with a teleprompter)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

And, I must add, our President is stunningly reckess with the lives of his fellow Americans.


48 posted on 04/20/2009 7:37:40 PM PDT by keepitreal (Obama brings change: an international crisis (terrorism) within 6 months)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

“’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.’”

No, he doesn’t. He’s tying their hands and telling them he understands it’s difficult with you hands tied.

He is peeing on their legs and telling them it’s raining.


49 posted on 04/20/2009 7:40:42 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism, it's the new black.)
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To: devolve

Someone just wrote me that it was a photo op just as his recent Iraq photos were - probably prescreened to get his followers at the front. He’s learning.

Well, for years we knew the Clinton’s were putting libs in place everywhere, even heard talk of a ‘shadow government’.


50 posted on 04/20/2009 7:41:22 PM PDT by potlatch (A burden shared gets lighter)
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To: ReneeLynn

‘your’. Tsk.


51 posted on 04/20/2009 7:41:53 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism, it's the new black.)
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To: keepitreal; cardinal4

Somehow, I don’t think the Paramilitary dudes I hung with lo these many years would’ve been among the adoring throngs when the Messiah visited HQS today.


52 posted on 04/20/2009 7:45:50 PM PDT by Ax
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To: Canticle_of_Deborah

If some turncoat offs Obama, we’re stuck with Joe Biden.

If both, then we have President Nancy Pelosi.

I’d sooner expect such men to take early retirement to Australia.


53 posted on 04/20/2009 7:58:27 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
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To: keepitreal
And, I must add, our President is stunningly reckess with the lives of his fellow Americans.

If you recall, according to an undercover FBI agent, members of Bill Ayer's group the Weathermen casually discussed having to kill 25 million Americans as a consequence of the Communist revolution in the US. Perhaps BO agrees?

54 posted on 04/20/2009 7:59:17 PM PDT by Aria ( "The US republic will endure until Congress discovers it can bribe the public with the people's $.")
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To: Sprite518

The AP article I read earlier today described the cheers Obama received...sickening.


55 posted on 04/20/2009 9:38:55 PM PDT by scott7278 (Obama, Klaatu barada nikto!)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

ping for later


56 posted on 04/21/2009 1:23:10 AM PDT by Cruz ("Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal t)
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To: Lady GOP

TOP SECRET ONLY APPLIES when the Messiah says so.


57 posted on 04/21/2009 3:21:40 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ezekiel

The Kenyan Pretender is affirmative action in action..


58 posted on 04/21/2009 9:55:17 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: PotatoHeadMick

Hope he had his teleprompter. That would be torture if he didn’t have it.


59 posted on 04/21/2009 10:25:39 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: Ann Archy

I Support WATERBOARDING ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISTS


60 posted on 04/21/2009 3:41:23 PM PDT by Lady GOP
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