Posted on 06/30/2011 7:43:09 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Not quite all of them — two cases involving the actual death of a detainee will still be pursued, which is as it should be — but more than 100 involving less significant incidents will be cashiered. This probe was one of the last vestiges of the original Obama counterterror agenda. He banned enhanced interrogation and gave the order to close Gitmo on day two of his administration; a few weeks later, he opened the door to prosecuting Bush-era CIA interrogators. Fast-forward two years and not only is Gitmo still open, he’s now the guy who sent SEALs to shoot Bin Laden in the face, who’s pounded jihadis with drone strikes in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Yemen, who’s marked Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S. citizen, for death, and who’s running a war in Libya that’s not only unauthorized by Congress but illegal according to Pentagon lawyers and his own OLC chief. Under those circumstances, how absurd would it have been for Eric Holder to start dragging CIA agents into court over waterboarding, let alone lesser coercive techniques like belly slaps or stress positions? It would have angered hawks by punishing guys who were acting zealously to prevent further attacks, and it would have angered doves who’d be forced to revisit O’s own Bush-on-steroids counterterror record. So, bye-bye prosecutions.
I wonder, was this a going-away present for Panetta or a “clean slate” housewarming present for Petraeus, who was approved today by the Senate as the new DCIA, 94-0?
In a statement to CIA employees on his last day as director, Leon E. Panetta said Thursday that after an examination of more than 100 instances in which the agency allegedly had contact with terrorism detainees, Assistant U.S. Atty. John Durham decided that further investigation was warranted in just two cases. ......../p>
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Now who investigates Holder?
This will disappoint my liberal relatives - wonder how MSNBC will frame this for them?
Now who investigates Obama?
Media whoredom has already been told how to deal with it ... and mostly, they will ignore it because they follow orders quite well to preserve their lifestyles. Soros and his hench vermin know where the media whores eat and shyte, and he can tell them to change places anytime they choose. Welcome to the oligarhcy
Hmmm. He may be on the run.
Damn and I was waiting for the Republican campaign ads where images of a triumphant Obama taking credit for killing Bin Laden are juxtaposed against the image of the CIA Officers that gathered the intel being lead to court in orange jumpsuits and handcuffs. /sarc
I’d say it’s about time Holder spent a few hours under the hot lights. He seems to have a lot to answer for.
That would be the ATF fiasco in Arizona.
I thought that is why we gave the Repubs the majority in the U.S. House last November. Apparently, they do not intend to use their investigatory powers. What a shame.
Now he can investigate the actions of “his people” in Philadelphia. As if THAT will happen...
As usual.
I wonder why I didn’t see a report on this on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams ... hmm ...
Too many other dogs barking and biting at Holder’s a$$ recently.
I have seen some of the Issa House hearings with the Whistleblower ATF Agents ...
Why should that be?
Why? A couple of fanatical muzzie terrorists die (as they should be) and Holder wants to prosecute our guys? Of course GW Bush never stopped any trumped up monkey court proceedings against our military guys having to make split second life or death decisions.... so I guess Holder is on par with GW Bush or McStain or any of the other RINO's who failed to support our military and instead allowed our guys to be prosecuted & sentenced in a number of trials. I would love to throw their asses in prison for about 15 years, just to give them a taste of life on the inside.
Frame it? They’ll ignore it.
They had to spend THOUSANDS of dollars......time to get their money back.
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