Posted on 04/22/2009 12:50:09 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Barack Obama was criticized harshly on Wednesday for leaving the door open to the prosecution of former Bush administration officials who authorized severe CIA interrogation procedures.
Obama's decision to release classified memos last Thursday that detailed aggressive techniques on terrorism suspects that included waterboarding, sleep deprivation and forced nudity has triggered a political firestorm in Washington.
Politicians on the left are eager to launch investigations into the Bush-era policies that were part of the effort to prevent a repeat of the September 11 attacks, while those on the right said Obama seems to be breaking a pledge to look forward, not review the past.
Karl Rove, who was a top aide to former President George W. Bush, accused Obama of seeking to conduct "show trials" a day after the president left open the possibility of prosecuting officials who provided legal analysis of interrogation procedures.
Rove told Reuters: "If the Obama administration insists on criminalizing policy disagreements, how can they place any limits on who they prosecute?"
"Everyone in the interrogation process would have to be treated the same," he said, including the CIA agents, the physicians who monitored interrogation sessions, and the lawyers who researched and wrote the memos.
The chain could reach "to the leadership of the intelligence community to the legislators in both parties and the Bush administration officials who were briefed on these memos and agreed to them," he said.
"It is now clear that the Obama White House didn't think before it tried to appease the hard left of the Democratic Party," Rove said.
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Anybody see Karl Rove last night on Hannity?
he said this policy is like the way: “Colonel’s in mirrored sun glasses run banana republics”
It is not healthy for the President
to be on the bad side of the CIA.
“Obama is the proverbial dog that caught the car.”
Absolutely!!!!
Let's play “what if.”
What if the appeasement policies of the 0 administration lead to another terrorist attack on US soil?
Shall the next administration prosecute 0 and his cronies for dereliction of duty, and a host of other charges?
Just something to think about. Not that the self-righteous crusaders of the 0 administration are doing much thinking.
And Rove is still playing nice...wait till he and otheres start calling zer0 and his comrades just what they are, enemies of America, on a mission to destroy her.
Blair: Congress Approved CIA Interrogations
Obama’s DNI reminds Obama that “enhanced interrogation” worked
Excerpt:
Barack Obama’s top man in the intelligence community sent the President a memo defending the use of enhanced interrogation techniques, which the White House edited before releasing to the press de-emphasizing that defense.
Banned Techniques Yielded ‘High Value Information,’ Memo Says (Full, unedited memo released)
leftists will always, when in power, seek to criminalize and murder their political opposition.
This is just the latest incarnation of a repeating fact.
Conservatives don’t do that, only collectivists do that.
Can you imagine what would have happened to the WH office staff if all the O’s had been ripped off the keyboards?
What is the penalty for treason?
No response necessary.
If you wanna play "look-back"..."investigate & prosecute"... and/ or.. "politicize the past"...
Then we shall dog your every step...
And loudly question the Constitutionality & precedent legality of every bill you sign into law...
And every exec order you give...
So we will have the privilege of prosecuting you and yours...
AFTER we sucessfully vote-out your band of thugs & traitors from the hallowed halls of the republic...
“It is now clear that the Obama White House didn’t think before it tried to appease the hard left of the Democratic Party,”......
Community Organizers make shitty presidents!
I heard that.
Rove is a good American. I'm glad he's still willing to be the attack dog for us Patriots.
Rove, you remain a magnificent bastard.... our magnificent bastard.
This talk of “banana republics” needs to be expanded to include terms like “leftist” or “communist” or “fascist”.
Make no mistake, it’s ALWAYS a leftist/collectivist regime that criminalizes and exterminates its political opposition.
The only claim to fame for our dear leader is that he knows how to read a speech from his prompter.
As evil as Toricelli when he revealed the names of our covert agents, who were then murdered in the field.
a reflection on Eric Holder’s statement: “No one is above the law”, boy do i have to laugh whenever I see this printed, those dems sure dug their own grave when they appointed THIS clown. It will come back to haunt the entire Obama administration.
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