Obama: No Plans to Ask Justice to Drop CIA Interrogation Probe

FoxNews.com ^ | 09-20-2009 | FoxNews

[broken_arrow1]

WASHINGTON -- President Obama says he has no plans to ask the Justice Department to end its criminal investigation into the harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists during the Bush administration. Seven former CIA directors have asked the president to do just that. In a letter to Obama on Friday, they warned that the probe could discourage CIA officers from doing the kind of aggressive intelligence work needed to fight terrorism. Obama tells CBS' "Face the Nation" that he appreciates that the former CIA chiefs are wanting "to look after an institution that they helped to build." Obama says he wants to make sure that he's not somehow overruling the decisions of prosecutors such as Attorney General Eric Holder who are there to uphold the law.

[BIGLOOK]

Investigation summary:

ACORN....no; Breitbart....yes; Black Panthers.....no; CIA ....yes.

America has a real problem having promoted a dictator instead of electing a president

[Iron Munro]

Which side of his mouth was he speaking out of today?

I cannot stand watching this smarmy snake oil salesman.

[screaminsunshine]

Just trying to do what I can. We are in such a mess. It is getting worse every day. I am thinking the current system is not going to make it. 70 trillion of debt is an impossible hill to climb. Taxes can not do it. We have to cut the government to the bone and fend for ourselves. Our kids are getting screwed. Communism is destroying us.

[autumnraine]

If the CIA wants to remain out of political jail, they better be digging up some goods and DO NOT RELEASE IT TO THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA. They would be better off releasing it to an outside the nation (God help us that this is now the case) news source and then let it be reported on here.

This is a matter of the CIA protecting America from enemies DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN and Obama seems to be both.

[autumnraine]

Yep, arguing policy is over. It’s time for action as it seems people enamored with Obama aren’t hearing anything but.

[broken_arrow1]

“We will end a great deal of the corruption and start reforming our government in 2010-2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

You are obviously one of the optimists that still believes that free and fair elections will take place in 2010 and beyond. Good Luck!!!

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Type in the words communist manifesto into google.

0bama is trying like hell to dismantle the FBI=with Holder and now the CIA with this action.

I heard even liberal commentators say THIS decision will show whether 0bama’s politics/left wing party or the U.S.’s safety come first.

[AlphaOneAlpha]

“Destroying the CIA is something you have to do first when you are out to destroy America.”

Well, if the CIA has just a small handful of gum-shoe patriots, I am sure they could ban together and beat Obama and team to the punch. Go after the B/C, or simply Obama’s admission applications and college records. None of the school records have been released....my guess is that there is LOTS that do not match the fairly tale history President. Like, he made application to schools as a foreign exchange student.

[SumProVita]

Actually, I believe in prayer and a GOOD God. ;-)

I also believe in the hard-working involvement and alert action of conservatives in the next elections.

[sunny48]

Just getting them out of the way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtDSwyCPEsQ

‘Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God” – Thomas Jefferson

[Conservative_Rob]

We will end a great deal of the corruption and start reforming our government in 2010-2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Actually, the fact, after the elections, that nothing has changed (the Republicans made no, or very few gains), will just go to show the sleeping American public that our election system has been stolen and corrupted by the communists. I only hope that the reality of that sad fact will finally get the silent majority into a mood to actually do something to make REAL change.

All of this recent attention to Acron is encouraging, but it takes all of our eyes off of the 300 other "community organizing" organizations that are scurrying around in the dark like cockroaches. The outcomes of the 2010 elections are already in the bag, that's why you see no real desire of the Demonrats to listen to the vast majority of the American public who do not like what they are doing.

They don't care because they're in no real danger of losing their cushy seats. The polls can show the Republicans up 10 points on the eve of the elections, but you will wake up the following day to see that the polls were all wrong - shazaaaam!

[freekitty]

Only a fool would follow the path Obama has chosen to follow.

[sunny48]

A coup d'état (pronounced /ˌkuːdeɪˈtɑː/, us dict: kōō′·dā·tâ′), or coup for short, is the sudden unconstitutional deposition of a legitimate government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment — typically the military — to replace the deposed government with another, either civil or military. A coup d’état succeeds when the usurpers establish their legitimacy if the attacked government fail to thwart them, by allowing their (strategic, tactical, political) consolidation and then receiving the deposed government’s surrender; or the acquiescence of the populace and the non-participant military forces. Typically, a coup d’état uses the extant government’s power to assume political control of the country. In Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook, military historian Edward Luttwak says: "A coup consists of the infiltration of a small, but critical, segment of the state apparatus, which is then used to displace the government from its control of the remainder”, thus, armed force (either military or paramilitary) is not a defining feature of a coup d’État.

[Sarah Barracuda]

I told people before the election that Obama was a Jimmy Carter clone, and they looked at me stunned, like I had a squirrel on my head or something. Now they are like “WOW guess you were right” DUH. Obama wants to destroy this country one day at a time

[SumProVita]

Well...Look at it this way. We can focus on the negative and whine...or we can GET TO WORK spiritually and actively!

I prefer to expend my energy on the latter. It definitely achieves good results.

[Shady]

Actually, the CIA may be our best ally in the fight...Let’s see what happens, what they can uncover to blow the BO-mbshell.

[Talisker]

This guy’s gigantic arrogance is going to be his downfall. Who does he think he is? The Clintons?

:: coffee snort! :: You owe me a new keyboard!

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Or does it? For fear of being called racists?

Will the lawyers in the GOP grow some nads and find a way to impeach this fake messiah communist or will they be afraid of being called A RACIST?

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

He is FAR more dangerous than Jimmah Carter was.

[dools007]

What ever it is I hope he keeps right on doing it. He’s like a little kid that keeps picking at a sore until it gets infected.

It occurs to me that he really doesn’t care about his poll numbers. Perhaps he has a way to make them irrelevant—right along with elections.