Obama Open to Interrogation Prosecution

This man should be careful about throwing stones. Start prosecuting those who were acting in what they thought was the best defense of this country and you'll hear from the other side a cacophony of ODS birth certificate Manchurian candidate questionable campaign contributions etc that will dwarf anything we're seeing now.

Somewhere in an earlier post or comment someone asked if Malia or Sasha were kidnapped and Obama knew unless he capitulated to whatever the demands were within 12 hrs he'd start getting fingers back one at a time, would he be so quick to dismiss harsh interrogation techniques?

Same thing here. They were working to prevent another 9/11 or worse, working in uncharted territory as far as National Defense was concerned (nevermind that it should never have degraded that far to begin with that's not the issue here).

We have forgotten who the villains are, who's wearing the black hats. To our own peril.

Prosecute them now and how easy do you think it wil be to fill the ranks with people who can make the hard decisions when needed?

from MSNBC:

Obama open to some interrogation prosecution
But president concerned about the impact of hearings

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is leaving the door open to possible prosecution of Bush administration officials who devised harsh terrorism-era interrogation tactics.
He also said Tuesday that he worries about the impact of high-intensity hearings on how detainees were treated under former President George W. Bush.

But Obama did say, nevertheless, he could support a congressional investigation if it were conducted in a bipartisan way.

Obama has said he does not support charging CIA agents and interrogators who took part in waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics, acting on advice from superiors that such practices were legal. But he also said that it is up to the attorney general whether to prosecute Bush administration lawyers who wrote the memos approving these tactics.

Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, had said this weekend that the Obama administration would not seek prosecution of the Bush administration lawyers.

Last week, Obama's Justice Department published previously classified memos that described the Bush administration's legal justification for CIA interrogation techniques that included methods criticized as torture.

Republican lawmakers and former CIA chiefs have criticized the release of the memos, contending that revealing the limits of interrogation techniques will hamper the effectiveness of interrogators.

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