Obama’s Approval in the Tank – Solution? Investigate the CIA!
Here we go again… As soon as Obama’s approval rating starts dropping, they begin changing the subject as fast as possible. Now that Americans are fired up about Health Care, President Obama needs something to divert the anger and re-energize his liberal base. Solution? Investigate the CIA for torture.
This is typical for the Obama Administration… Support the ACLU, support the liberal loons… essentially support anyone who is against freedom. And when America gets mad – change the subject.
The US attorney general is set to name a special prosecutor to probe CIA interrogators suspected of having violated anti-torture laws, US media said Monday.
Eric Holder, America’s top law enforcement official, will name veteran justice department prosecutor John Durham to examine nearly a dozen cases of potential violations, according to the Washington Post.
The report cited sources familiar with the decision who spoke on condition of anonymity because the process was ongoing.
NBC News also reported on its website that Holder ordered a probe of CIA treatment of detainees.
And the AP reports below…
WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama has approved creation of a new, special terrorism-era interrogation unit to be supervised by the White House, a top aide said Monday, further distancing his administration from President George W. Bush’s detainee policies.
The administration has also decided that all U.S. interrogators will follow the rules for detainees laid out by the Army Field Manual, according to senior administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the decision. That decision aims to end years of fierce debate over how rough U.S. personnel can get with terror suspects in custody.The new unit does not mean the CIA is now out of the interrogation business, deputy White House press secretary Bill Burton told reporters covering the vacationing Obama at Oak Bluffs, Mass.
Burton said the unit will include “all these different elements under one group,” and it said that it will be situated at the FBI headquarters in Washington.
The unit would be led by an FBI official, with a deputy director from somewhere in the government’s vast intelligence apparatus, and members from across agencies. It will be directly supervised by the White House, but the senior administration officials insisted the unit’s agency bosses will make operational decisions, not the White House.
The officials also said that in cases where terror suspects are transferred to other countries, the U.S. will work harder to ensure the suspect is not tortured.
Separately, Burton said that a recommendation now before Attorney General Eric Holder to reopen and pursue prisoner abuse cases is a decision solely for Holder to make without any intervention from the president.
Dead on, well written, and the people must know this information!! Keep up the great work!
Thanks Karmahd for the comment,
America needs to realize the real agenda going on within the left-wing of the Democrat party… and its not about increasing our personal liberty. (as you already know)
Cheers,
Jason