Posted on 02/02/2010 5:33:57 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
Michael Hayden, the former CIA director, penned a superb op-ed in the Washington Post on Sunday. Succinctly, he tallies the wages of having Attorney General Eric Holder make national-security decisions. Unlike the attorney general, Hayden is a real general, and very much worth heeding. He shows that these decisions have been premised on left-wing political calculations that always shortchange intelligence collection and the pursuit of American interests. Holder’s judgments are not based on what America’s safety requires or on what the law maximally permits U.S. intelligence to do in wartime.
As Hayden points out, the policy decisions that President Obama has allowed Holder to make are significant — not only taken one by one, but in their cumulative effect on the ethos of our intelligence agencies. “Intelligence officers,” he writes, “need to know that someone has their back.” After Holder forced the release in April of classified memos prepared by Bush Justice Department lawyers, laying out interrogation tactics and the legal rationale for permitting them, “CIA officers began to ask whether the people doing things that were currently authorized would be dragged through this kind of public knothole in five years. No one could guarantee that they would not.”
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
Anyone who believes obama/soetoro "allowed" Holder to make decisions on his own -- without his approval, blessing or direct order -- is simply to stupid to breathe.
Obama is the most successful communist traitor mole in history.
People can blame the attorney general, and there certainly is plenty for which he should answer. But Holder is a sideshow. These decisions are presidential decisions. The fact that Obama evidently delegates them to Holder does not change that. The policy of surrendering enemy combatants to the civilian-justice system and giving them all the rights of the American citizens whom they are trying to kill is an Obama policy being implemented by Holder; it’s not a Holder policy.
There have been many an article proclaiming Holder acted alone, thus removing all responsibilitiy from Obama/Soetoro.
My comment stands.
There have been many an article proclaiming Holder acted alone, thus removing all responsibilitiy from Obama/Soetoro.
What the h$ll has that got to do with this article? Hayden didn't remove responsibility from Obama...he stated that the responsibility was ALL Obama's.
Sheeesh.
If I misread your post or your intention, I apologize for seeming to "chastize" you.
Apology not accepted, eh?
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