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Obama's Image-Building Campaign Threatens National Security, Republicans Warn
FoxNews ^ | April 22, 2009 | Judson Berger

Posted on 04/22/2009 6:47:40 PM PDT by La Enchiladita

...Michigan Rep. Pete Hoekstra, ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said former CIA chief Michael Hayden is right in saying that Obama's treatment of the interrogation programs could have a chilling effect on agents' ability to operate in the field.

"It lessens security," Hoekstra told FOXNews.com. "If you've got an intelligence community that's unwilling to take a risk and being very timid ... guess what? You don't have an intelligence community. You've got a bureaucracy."

... Obama often talked during the campaign about how he wanted to "restore America's world standing," which had "suffered" under the Bush administration and as a result of the Iraq war [WOT]. ...

Hoekstra called the image campaign "shallow." Regarding the interrogation program, he said Obama was on one hand claiming he wanted to put that chapter behind him while on the other hand opening the door for a months-long firestorm on Capitol Hill over the issue.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 111th; apology; apologytour; bho; bhovisit; cia; hoekstra; nationalsecurity; torture; weakling
This is the first I've seen of a current elected representative speaking out on this traitorous travesty.
1 posted on 04/22/2009 6:47:40 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: La Enchiladita

if the dems have a banana republic show trial,

this could be the end of the obama presidency.


2 posted on 04/22/2009 6:53:42 PM PDT by ken21 (the only thing we have to fear is fdr deja vu.)
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To: La Enchiladita
About time exposing this! that whole bunch is about clean as an overflowing Outhouse.
3 posted on 04/22/2009 6:54:22 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Osamabama Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: ken21

I just read a headline, recently posted article on FR, that congressional dems are going ahead with a tribunal. Damn traitors deserve to hang.


4 posted on 04/22/2009 6:57:27 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Don't worry, be hope-y.)
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To: ken21

So, you could say then that Obama’s administration SOBP


5 posted on 04/22/2009 6:58:53 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: La Enchiladita
Damn traitors deserve to hang.

If these show trials do take place, the Republicans need to grow a pair and insist Pelosi, Reid, and the other dumbocrates be made to testify because they were also briefed and approved the same techniques they are condemning the last administration for.

6 posted on 04/22/2009 7:15:32 PM PDT by WesternPacific (I am tired of voting for the lesser of two evils!)
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To: WesternPacific
Western, you hit the nail on the head....they forgot they've been the majority for quite a while, and have plenty of their own actions to answer for..

But alas, I see this as total BS and a typical political distraction as well as a chance for the idiots in the majority to exercise their power...

7 posted on 04/22/2009 7:25:49 PM PDT by KLT (A damn Yankee, from the great state of Mississippi....Go Freepers GO!)
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To: WesternPacific

That fact isn’t going to deter them at all, practiced liars that they are. They will eventually answer, though, to those who see through their deceits. They are worse than the jihadists they defend.


8 posted on 04/22/2009 7:37:25 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Don't worry, be hope-y.)
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To: ken21
if the dems have a banana republic show trial, this could be the end of the obama presidency.

I wish so, but the communist King Obama and his corrupt RAT thugs are an insult to real America and they are in complete power. The RAT party is anti-American and need to be thrown out and talk will not do it.

9 posted on 04/22/2009 7:52:27 PM PDT by Logical me (Oh, well!!!)
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To: La Enchiladita

It’s image winning over substance.

They don’t even bother with symbolism.


10 posted on 04/22/2009 8:17:07 PM PDT by Only1choice____Freedom (FDR had the New Deal. President 0bama has the Raw Deal.)
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To: La Enchiladita
obama wants to give America a facelift for other countries at the expense of our own.:/

chilling effect on agents' ability to operate in the field. I feel the chilling effect of obama. These are scariest of times.

Glad to hear someone is finally standing up, Michigan Rep. Pete Hoekstra. I pray more Republicans to follow......been waiting for months now.
Thanks Dita
11 posted on 04/23/2009 5:01:54 AM PDT by GodBlessUSA ( God Bless Our Military Heroes! ) ((Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them))
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To: GodBlessUSA

This regime’s disclosure of CIA memos is called “going for the jugular.” Hijacker Hussein couldn’t be giving a more clear signal of his agenda. I salute Hoekstra for speaking up. If we wonder why about the silence on our side, we need to remember Curt Weldon, his political career ruined after he investigated Able Danger.

We are scared here at FR and on the conservative airwaves, but too many Americans are not scared at all. That is what the traitors count on.


12 posted on 04/23/2009 2:08:03 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Don't worry, be hope-y.)
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