Posted on 08/25/2009 6:02:17 AM PDT by kellynla
If the left wing of the left wing of the left wing in American life doesn't control most of the Obama farmstead's best and richest acreage, it could be time for new spectacles -- since things surely look that way.
Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to go after the CIA has all the earmarks of policy designed to make left-wing hearts palpitate. What other purpose could it possibly serve? Not that of national security or common sense.
I have written deliberately "go after the CIA," notwithstanding the demurral of newly appointed special prosecutor John Durham, which concerns the supposedly "preliminary" scope of his investigation into alleged abuses perpetrated by CIA interrogators against terrorism suspects. The range of cases is gratifyingly small when you consider that Holder, following the blood sport instincts of the left, could have gone after higher-ups -- perhaps some of those in the Justice Department who advised President Bush on interrogation policy ( like John Yoo).
Alas, as we know from experience, investigations tend to start small then grow. Was Monica Lewinsky on Ken Starr's radar screen at the start of his inquiry into the Clintons' finances? Things get out of hand. The left of the left of the left hopes no doubt that will be the case with Durham's investigation. You find on that peculiar quarter of the political spectrum a lust to punish former Vice President Cheney himself (if not the president he served). Why rule out a battalion of CIA agents who imagined themselves to be preserving American lives?
Indeed, the Inspector General's Report, which Holder cites as evidence of doing, says various interrogations gleaned "intelligence that has enabled the identification and apprehension of other terrorists and warned of terrorist plots planned for the United States and around the world."
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I can’t believe 0 would be bold enough to do this unless he also felt he had support from certain people inside the CIA. I don’t know anything about the internal workings of the agency or even much about it in general, but it makes sense that he knows there’s some weakness there. If it were a monolith that he felt would turn against him, I don’t think he’d dare to attack them.
zer0 is truley an idiot . Clueless !
Everyday... Every Phu*king day there is something we learn of this administration that makes one shake his or her head.
For me the last straw was the Ramadan message. Even though I equate Islam with Communisn and not a religion at all, and certainly not a movement of Peace, a true uniter would give thanks during Easter to followers of Christ and inturn the followers of Mohammed during Ramadan.
NO. This guy chooses a secular message during Easter about the Palestinians and Jews...and then schmoozes the Muslims for Ramadan.
If there is any doubt in ones minds about civil war in this country, then they’ve been living on another planet.
This guy has proclaimed his hatred for our freedom. He is systematically dismantling our economy.
Now he’s going after our intelligence people who protect us.
“....long after Obama starts to wish he’d never heard of the CIA or, for that matter, the left of the left of the left.”
I have a hard time wrapping my head around that because Obama and his team ARE the left of the left of the left.
Nobody ever said Lefties were smart...
but they are fanatical to their Communist beliefs.
and I thought Obamacare would be Hussein's “Waterloo”...
he's not gonna wait that long...the CIA will finish this clown off...wait til they get a hold of the Kenyan BC!
He's still got the Blackberry.
Why do you think he refused to give that up?
Who is on the other end?
And if they attack us again...will the people blame Bush, Obama, or the CIA, or will Obama rise from the crisis with popularity. I doubt he could bring the country together given the way he is tearing it apart.
“And if they attack us again.”
not “if” but when...Hussein doesn’t care...
Lefties HATE America and EVERYTHING she stands for.
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Good point. His agenda could not be more clear.
That’s why Panetta is huffing & puffing about this - it’s all street theater for us poor slobs. Panetta is a leftie, but he has to show his staff that he supports them even though he doesn’t at all.
“Going after” one agency after another, one individual
after another...instead of GOVERNING the country like
he was elected to do!
He is a complete and utter (albeit dangerous) idiot!
0bammy’s assurance is worth less than zer0.
LBJ:
“Because I’d rather have Hoover inside my tent pissing out than outside pissing in.”
Ditto on stupid for 0 to kick the CIA out of the tent. Oh well!
Me too.
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