CIA: Looking Backward, Not Forward, To Make Sure Terrorists and Mainstream Media Have Pro-Terrorist Propaganda to Spread (President as Liar)

Harry Truman: "The buck stops here."


President Barack Obama (in pathological liar mode, channelling Pontius Pilate--probably getting the idea from Hillary Clinton refusing to channel Bill Clinton):


"I know I said that we needed to look forward, and not back, specifically in discussing allegations of alleged misconduct by the previous Administration and the CIA. However, the Attorney General (who I appointed; who is my employee; and who is directly under my authority's and can be fired by me) has his job to do. I can't interfere with that. It is totally out of my control, and does not mean I am a pathological liar."


Okay. I took some liberties with the actual words that President Obama said, but does not the above pretty well summarize what Obama said in trying to reconcile what he had previously said with the actions of Attorney General Holder? In case you were unaware, Holder appointed a special prosecutor yesterday to persecute the CIA--oops! sorry. I mean "investigate" the actions of CIA personnel and CIA contractors) concerning incidents described in a 2004 report of the Inspector General on CIA "harsh" interrogations after 9/11.


Nope. I am not making this up. I wish I were. Talk about "looking backward"!!!!! The Justice Department is appointing a SPECIAL PROSECUTOR to look into something already investigated FIVE YEARS AGO, and CLOSED. In the process, terrorists get to learn all about our interrogation techniques, and get all of this propaganda handed them on a platter (and by our anti-American mainstream media, such as YAHOO NEWS).


Did a lot of terrorists die under suspicious circumstances? Weer they beheaded, like they do to their captives? Did we kill their children? Did we physically injure these people involved in terror acts against this country, including the killing of 3,000 people, and who had knowledge of further planned terror acts?


Nope. The CIA ALLEGEDLY fired off a gun in a Mock execution" (good). The CIA ALLEGEDLY threatened to kill one terrorist's children IF there were another attack on the U.S. A little harsh, but hardly "torture" (a word that is being devalued). Again, it is not something I would morally condemn--much less PROSECUTE as illegal. No children were actually killed.


I take that last statement back. OBAMA HAS KILLED INNOCENT CHILDREN OF TERRORISTS, AND PROBABLY SOME NON_TERRORISTS. You know those predator drones? Right, like the one that killed that Talilban leader, which the Obama Administration bragged about. Those attacks from the air are indiscriminate. They necessarily kill innocent people, including CHILDREN. You can't get around it. That is war. There is collateral damage. Of course, the anti-American, despicable Associated Press does not know this, because they made a big deal, FIFTY YEARS AFTER THE FACT, about alleged U.S. killing of civilians from the air in the KOREAN WAR. But most sane people (does not apply to any "Journalist" working for the despicable AP) know that there is collateral damage in war.



Still, Obama has KILLED CHILDREN in air attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan. These CIA interrogators KILLED NO ONE. They INJURED NO ONE (seriously). They were doing their best to prevent further attacks on the United States. FDR did the same thing in ILLEGALLY (the Supreme Court later so held) "detaining" Japanese AMERICANS in detention camps during World War II. You can argue over what interrogation techniques should be used. To even "investigate" criminal prosecution, YEARS AFTER THE FACT, is absurd. It is criminal in itself. It is anti-American. It risks intimidating CIA personnel, acting in good faith, from doing what they need to do to keep this country safe.


Read my prophetic entry yesterday, when I talked about CBS News trying to "spin" the initial rumblings of this "news" by suggesting that Obama could be simply "reviewing" this matter in order to IMPLEMENT his promise to "look forward, and not backward".


I ask you. Who was right, and who was wrong? In a single day, I was PROVEN right, and CBS News PROVEN WRONG. What else is new? That is why this blog has an accuracy rating of 99.8%.


But might not CBS still be partially right? Might not President Obama merely be letting his Justice Department put on a show, and then conclude--with great fanfare and Obama rhetoric about how our system has "worked"--that no criminal prosecution is warranted (even though MISTAKES WERE MADE i the previous Administration)?


Oh, I don't doubt that this is intended to be a distraction to take the heat off of Obama on health care, and otherwise. And I have no doubt that in the end, Obama's Justice Department will act in a politically expedient manner. If it looks to be politically disastrous to actually bring any criminal charges, they won't be brought.


However, it just won't wash. This "investigation" was CLOSED. To reopen it after all of these years sends a message to CIA personnel, and people hired by the CIA--even as contractors or informants--that CIA activities are constantly subject to politically inspired "investigation"--even YEARS after the fact. The mere appointing of a "special prosecutor" has the power to DESTROY the CIA. CIA agents have been revealed. There operations have been revealed--all in public. There was no excuse to ever release this 2004 report.


Nope The whole thing is a disaster, and Obama cannot turn it into a "triumph" by later "spin" about how everything turned out all right (in conjunction with big publicity about how CIA personnel will not be prosecuted for acting for this country). CIA personnel are being placed under the gun by their own government, and that fact cannot be concealed or papered over by later political "cover".


P.S. I apologize to the memory of Pontius Pilate. He, too, acted through political expediency and political agenda when the put the fate of Jesus Christ in the hands of a vote of the mob. However, at least poor Pontius TRIED. He washed his hands of Crhist, as Obama has publicly washed his hands of the decisions of his Justice Department, but Pilate TRIED to do the right thing. Pathological liar Obama has no clue what the right thing is, beyond a dim feeling that it is the LEFTIST thing, and a stronger feeling that it is whatever SOUNDS GOOD at the time.