It was so easy to speak authoritatively from the position of proud ignorance during the campaign, but the man who became president has once again found that talking shit is much different than having to deal with real world situations .
After a tense internal debate, President Obama officially announced this afternoon that his administration would not prosecute C.I.A. operatives for carrying out controversial interrogations of terrorist suspects, as the Justice Department began releasing a number of detailed memos describing harsh techniques used against al Qaeda suspects in secret overseas prisons.
“In releasing these memos, it is our intention to assure those who carrying out their duties relying in good faith upon the legal advice from the Department of Justice that they will not be subject to prosecution,” Mr. Obama said in a statement issued by the White House.
Just maybe President Obama caught wind of some genuine attacks that were thwarted by harsh interrogations. Dozens, hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of lives were saved, and the tortured persons in question walked away with no permanent damage.
See how that works?
Since the whole *Bush* didn’t subscribe to the Geneva Conventions, and *tortured* poor (captured) innocent terrorists Kos, MoveOn, Huff and Huff et all propoganda B.S.
As far as I know, the torture that isn’t really, water-boarding, was used on exactly three high-profile Jihadists, which produced great results, incidentally, and who knows how many innocent lives this extremely selectively used technique saved?
hmm . . .
Must’ve hit the third rail.
Nuke.
the U.S.S. Cole I meant to say
well he didn’t prosecute the guy who co-ordinated the attack on the U.S.S. and just DROPPED ALL THE CHARGES against him, I guess he thinks in reverse – doing good is bad, and doing bad is good
i’m sure code pink is pissed about this.
also, a funny comment from the article, just what would a tense debate in the hussein w/h be like?
But “liberals” never learn, do they?