Tuesday, December 9, 2014
What Obama and Feinstein Did to the CIA Must Worry Every American
In these times that require superhuman determination to preserve liberty, we have witnessed today, in the release of the Senate summary report on CIA enhanced interrogation techniques used after 9/11, the act of a wrongheded President Barack Obama and his Democratic chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein. These officers elected to preserve America and Americans, who have never walked in harm's way or taken enemy fire or felt the blood drain to the pit of their stomach in that moment when they see their position overrun or their cover blown -- these politicians who send other Americans, young and old, to take the bullets and walk in harm's way and feel the fear -- this puzzlingly misdirected Democrat Senator and President have today released a partisan report meant to vilify the post-9/11 CIA -- a report that is hotly contested, called a fabrication, condemned as a witchhunt against President George W. Bush and his senior advisors, and labelled as dangerous to every American soldier and covert agent, as well as to the dwindling handful of allies that Obama has not yet repulsed. These politicians have exposed the rest of America and Americans to dangers that they themselves are protected from ever having to face or feel. ~~~~~ In America's fight for survival, we remember President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's haunting words : "We are the watchmen on the walls of freedom...may we be worthy..." ~~~~~ Today, we must ask whether Barack Obama and Dianne Feinstein and every Senator who voted to release this report have placed themselves on the wrong side of JFK's wall.
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I hope what they have done has not compromised every agent but I do know a "witch hunt" against George W Bush is unnecessary at this point in time.
ReplyDeleteGreat Powers are never loved ... they are respected by our friends & feared by our enemies. That is until Obama became president.
DeleteWe are to believe that the policies of the Bush Administration (and only the Bush Administration – NO spill over into the Obama administration) post 9-11 did not gain the United States anything in useful Intelligence, but did gain us only disrespect and disgrace in the World Community (that’s what is Obama is interested in the World Community, not the United States.
ReplyDeleteWell there is one very glaring fact that proves Obama and his administration to be ignorant to one important fact… “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques” (EIT) kept the United States for being attacked again by Islamic Terrorists post 9-11, not once.
The sum and total for the release of this “Senate Paper on EIT’s” today was to simply pit one group of Americans against another and to help Obama sneak out from another lie/scandal.
I am relatively sure that this action by the White House (and make NO mistake it has been the White House that has all along been the driving force of the construction & release of this ‘summarized report’) does not reach the level of a “legally impeachable offense”. But morally this may be the most treacherous thing that this Obama lead White House has ever done.
DeleteThe Central Intelligence Agency repeatedly tortured suspected terrorists, regularly lied about it to Congress and the White House, and, for all the pain and trouble this caused the agency and the United States, didn’t end up extracting a single piece of valuable information not readily available by other means. That, at least, is the conclusion of the forthcoming Feinstein report.
ReplyDeleteThe goal of these leaks, and the report itself, is not hard to discern: to ensure that the coming debate over enhanced interrogation isn’t so much a debate but a public condemnation of those who conceived and participated in the program and to take the emphasis of investigations off Obama and his inner circle.
This report released today was produced by the Democratic staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, chaired by Dianne Feinstein. Republicans declined to participate. Not very impartial is it?
Senate Intelligence Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein and Democratic members of her committee have spent several months this year fighting with the administration over its heavy use of redactions in the report.
ReplyDeleteThe lack of clarity in the released report today is that the partially redacted footnote instructs readers to refer to a still-classified portion of the torture report for more information. Only the executive summary of the full 6,000-page report was released publicly Tuesday, and it is unlikely that other portions of the report will be declassified—though some lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay detainees have vowed to push for the full release.
We are being asked to accept the “truth” as Obama and Feinstein sees the truth … both knowing very well that the full un-redacted report will never see the light of day. It will remain “classified for the full allowed time.
Another partial truth from a completely untruthful administration.
The White House admits it's going to put Americans and others abroad in great danger. But the president wants this report made public nonetheless.
DeleteJOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY said: “There are some indications that the release of the report could lead to a greater risk that is posed to U.S. facilities and individuals all around the world. So the administration has taken the prudent steps to ensure that the proper security precautions are in place. That said the administration strongly supports the release of this declassified summary of the report. The president believes that on principle, it's important to release that report, so that people around the world and people here at home understand exactly what transpired.”
W H Y is it “important” Mr. Earnest? A one sentence with facts would suffice as an answer.
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said “Of course we must aggressively pursue international terrorists who would do us harm, but we must do so in a way that is consistent with the basic respect for human rights which makes us proud to be Americans,” in a statement.
ReplyDeleteWho showed any Human Rights to the 3,000 people murdered on 9-11-2001? Who has addressed the Human Rights of all the people killed around the world by the various Islamic terrorists groups with car bombings, road side IED’s? What about the Human Rights of all the people beheaded by these barbarians? The children kidnapped from their schools and sold into sex slavery and forced marriages, or just ganged raped to death, what about their Human Rights?
The Senator Sanders of this government need to get their heads out of the sand and see what is going on around the world.
Knowing all too well that everything that comes from the Obama Administration is ‘pure politics’ this latest example with the 500 page summary of an executive report that was originally 6,000 pages long demonstrates again the hypocrisy of Obama and his drive mechanism.
ReplyDeleteThe sole purpose that Obama and his “puppet” Sen. Feinstein had in the released of this document was to authenticate and legalize the ongoing “BLAME IT ON THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION” crutch that has been a fallback position for Obama since January 20, 2009. When all the lies from the White House failed – blame it on Bush.
With the present attack level worldwide via ISIS being 10 fold that of al-Qaida when all this failing enhanced interrogating was being used – now (if ever) is not the time to weaken with innuendos the effectiveness of the CIA or any other Intelligence Agency.
Right now if we went to any nation (other than Israel) with a sensitive project and ask seek their assistance, most likely we’d be turned down based on this administration ability to keep any secrets. Our entire intelligence gathering effectiveness is in jeopardy right now, and our field intelligence officers are in personal danger.
President Obama was so quick to take credit for the killing of OBL by Seal Team 6. I believe his chant was …”We Got Him!”
ReplyDeleteWe’ll Mr. President in your lack of understanding of Foreign Affairs & Intelligence work, where do you think the information came from to corner OBL for your still questionable operation that supposedly let to the claim of “We Got Him” (if we did?)?
That’s right from the many agents involved for a few years in closing the escape route around OBL – those dedicated intelligence agents that you just put them out on a limb and then sawed it off.
A powerful example of the enhanced interrogation program’s importance is the information obtained from Abu Zubaydah, a senior al Qaeda operative, and from Khalid Sheikh Muhammed, known as KSM, the 9/11 mastermind. We are convinced that both would not have talked absent the interrogation program.
ReplyDeleteInformation provided by Zubaydah through the enhanced interrogation program led to the capture in 2002 of KSM associate and post-9/11 plotter Ramzi Bin al-Shibh. Information from both Zubaydah and al-Shibh led us to KSM. KSM then led us to Riduan Isamuddin, aka Hambali, East Asia’s chief al Qaeda ally and the perpetrator of the 2002 Bali bombing in Indonesia—in which more than 200 people perished.
The enhanced interrogation program was invaluable in three critical ways:
• It led to the capture of senior al Qaeda operatives, thereby removing them from the battlefield.
• It led to the disruption of terrorist plots and prevented mass casualty attacks, saving American and Allied lives.
• It added enormously to what we knew and didn’t know about al Qaeda as an organization and therefore informed our approaches on how best to attack, thwart and degrade it.
This report fails to suggest one thing for improvement … but only finds fault! Surely that was the plan from Obama at the offset.