Posted on 09/01/2009 2:37:40 AM PDT by Scanian
THE Obama administration's determination to hold witch-hunt "investigations" of CIA interrogators who did their patriotic best to keep us safe endangers us all.
Castrate the CIA, and Americans will die. But the Obama White House wants vengeance against those who don't fit its ideology. Your family's safety comes a distant second.
And let's get real: Attorney General Eric Holder (whose top career achievement was finessing the presidential pardon of a criminal Clinton donor) is not acting independently.
Anyone who believes that Holder didn't pre-brief the president and get the nod prior to announcing his determination to crucify high-achieving CIA agents probably believes that government-run health care will balance the federal budget.
I followed this travesty as I worked with our military at various bases last month. I could have been listening to old BBC World Service reports from the Third World. This is the sort of politicized retribution that prevails in backwater countries when regimes change.
Our wise tradition has been for new administrations to accept that their predecessors did their best, however disagreeably, and move on. Gerald Ford sacrificed himself to that end, and even Jimmy Carter understood that presidencies are not for domestic revenge.
And the lesson the left should draw from its own wretched global history is that those who stage the show trials this time may wind up in the dock themselves when the wheel turns.
But Obama's political base wants blood. American blood. This inquisition isn't about justice. It's about punishing those who fought terror with all their might.
What have we come to when our attorney general frees terrorists, then threatens to prosecute patriots who treated butchers too harshly for left-wing tastes?
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"Castrate the CIA, and Americans will die."
same crap carter pulled
I have a feeling that that’s the idea.
The CIA is a reservoir of patriotism. Obama and his dogs are going after those CIA people because they're patriots and CIA, not because they did anything wrong.
This is 100% political persecution, and it'll be replicated throughout the Pentagon and the Civil Service, step by step. This is a political pogrom by a Communist-trained believer in pogroms who mouths Communist rhetoric when he exhorts his trolls.
This is pre-revolution, the first moves in a vanguard-led "revolution from the top". Our country is in civil war.
I wonder how all of those agents who leaked and distorted information during the Bush Administration in support of the DemocRATS feel now?
JFK pissed all over the CIA too, and we all know how THAT worked out ...
I wonder if they have any real information on Obama that they can now leak to force him to back off?
How long before the CIA “finds” the real birth certificate?
It all makes perfect sense, once you understand clearly that Obama is the most successful communist traitor mole in history, bar none.
No use for warnings. The emasculation of the Security agencies has already occurred with the first rumblings of prosecutions and cannot be undone for a generation or more.
It's a different set of personnel. The field agents who have been shut down likely have no knowledge of such things. It is the deskmen who are not in any danger of prosecution or other discomforts who would have such information. They are all Democrats and it is they who assiduously undermine Republican presidents.
They are hoping for a big attack so they can clamp down on our freedoms.
Really?
Last time I checked, the CIA (publicly, anyway) was populated by a bunch of Ivy League Liberals who were doing their best to undermine President Bush. Did something change while I wasn’t looking?
So what is your version, again?
Going back to even the OSS days, you'll find an odd admixture of field operatives, often recruited from the military, who tend to be patriotic and willing to give their lives for their country (i.e. Mike Spann) coupled with bureacratic idealists who are, to put it mildly, left leaning and think they know best and are perfectly willing for others to give their lives in order to advance their careers (i.e. Valerie Plame).
All the western intelligence services were heavily infiltrated by communists in WWII and for decades afterwards.
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