This is Saul Alinsky horse blank.
One of Alinsky’s rules for radicals, is that you make your opponents live up to their own standards, otherwise you call them out for their hypocrisy.
In this case, Obama is calling out Bush and the CIA at the time, for not living up to some alleged standard.
Now, work with me here. If Obama is calling out Bush and the CIA for not living up to the highest ideals, is he calling out an enemy for not living up to the highest ideals? Meaning America is the enemy, per Alinsky criteria??? What is Obama really saying???
Where’s Dick Cheney to tell him to go to hell? Bush won’t.