Obama Has Paralyzed the CIA

DamnYankee

DamnYankee

Loyal to the end
...and made us less safe.

CIA’s coercive interrogations were focused, approved by members of Congress, and successful. During initial interrogations, Abu Zubaydah was reluctant to give up individuals who were close to him. After he was waterboarded — which is inflicted on our own special forces during training — he gave up Ramzi bin al-Shibh, a member of Osama bin Laden’s inner circle. In turn, that led to the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the 9/11 plot, and the uncovering of a plot to target the West Coast in a second wave of attacks.

If Obama were genuinely interested in “transparency” and spreading goodwill, he would have released CIA reports detailing those successes.

Obama’s message to the intelligence community was clear: Even if techniques have been approved by the country’s elected leaders, you take your career in your hands if you engage in any operation that could be considered close to the edge. That same message would be sent to the military if the president and Congress declared war and a subsequent administration conducted witch hunts and threatened prosecutions of soldiers who killed the enemy in battle.

As former CIA Director Michael Hayden has said, the effect of the release is to “invite the kind of institutional timidity and fear of recrimination that weakened intelligence gathering in the past, and that we came sorely to regret on Sept. 11, 2001.”
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http://www.newsmax.com/kessler/obama_cia/2009/04/27/207740.html
 
SM, heres a fucking clue for you.

One day Obama is really going to do something wrong that you can stand on principle an make your case.

When you cry wolf 900 times a day people stop listening.


Its what Bush did in reverse, he just did illegal things all day and made it near impossible to keep up with the crimes.
 
This is all old news and was previously known.

The CIA and the Bush Admin hurt the CIA.

Just like a kid who does something wrong and then blames those who finds out for getting him in trouble.

Childish rants of the right.
 
evince, here's a fucking clue for you.

When you cry wolf 900 times a day and say Bush committed crimes people stop listening.
 
Some people apparently need some waterboarding to convince them what is torture and what is interrogation.

And this calling it enhanced interrogation sounds like it is straight from Roves lips.
 
This from a guy who supported the 900 times a day traitor, mushroom clouds, etc to justify preemptively invading a country did not make the claims true either.
 
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