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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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
What kind of “carbon footprint” does all these campaign stops....errr.....”presidential visits” leave??
You forgot "fart rainbows"!
From Mark Steyn.
That's exactly how Bambi sees it - just the way any tribal chief or banana republic leftist sees it: before me, there was nothing.
0goatse
Releasing Top Secret CIA files USED to be treason...can a president be treasonous?
Perhaps the CIA would like to release that long form birth certificate, now.
Time to start making a list of people to prosecute once Obama leaves office. I vote to start with the Show Trial bunch.
Iowa Earth Day....I didn’t realize the campaign had already started....time flies....it’s been almost 3 months.
“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.
Rush points out that Odumbo IS the hard left of the Democrat Party.
Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall...
The Obamanation is becoming a Obamananna Republic
In the words of Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez; “If you’re going to shoot shoot don’t talk.”
There, fixed it...
If The Pres was being paid specifically to destroy our country he could not be doing a better job. Oh, maybe he IS being paid to destroy our country. Hmmm......
But I do have a question. Do you think waterboarding will be used in the BHO, Jr. Political Correctness Re-Education and Global Warming Attitudes Camps?
300 times.
2007: Torture update: What did Nancy Pelosi know and when did she know it?
Today we have this ...FR Thread:
Pelosi: I didn't know about waterboarding
And a few days ago we have this:
Thanks Ernest.
Obama Administration To Release Bush-Era Detainee Photos
[Shaming America, Again!]
LA Times | April 23, 2009
Posted on 04/23/2009 7:00:42 PM PDT by Steelfish
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2236557/posts
“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.”
Doesn’t Rove know that the Obama White House is the hard left?
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