Attack the CIA – Obama’s Wag-the-Dog

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President Obama’s decision to authorize Attorney General Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether criminal charges are warranted for the manner in which the CIA interrogated prisoners is an obvious attempt to distract the public from the heat the Democrats, and his administration, have taken over health care and the miscalculated exploding deficit.

This political distraction is not just smoke and mirrors, however.  The launch of this attack is the final “tell”, confirming exactly how the Administration is going to confront the war on terrorism.  Following 9/11, President Bush made the tough decision to take the war to the terrorists.  Play offense.  The hand that Obama has played this week is undoubtedly putting us back our our pre-9/11 defensive posture.

The alleged abuses have been extensively probed with no real abuses found, and yet, the Administration -- once approval ratings fell below 50%-- decides to re-open the investigation.  Throw his ultra-left base a bone in an attempt to get the number back up above 50%, but at what cost.

In June, the Administration released CIA reports on the interrogation techniques used by CIA operatives in the war on terror but refused to release reports on the valuable intelligence that was gained through those techniques. If he was really interested in anything other than political gain, he would have.

It is a serious issue when politicians play politics with classified national security information.  What is the message it is sending to the intelligence community? They follow the directives from the top and when the next administration comes in, they get hung out to dry. Obama has demonized CIA operatives for following instructions and made it clear that even if techniques are approved by the highest elected leaders, they will be taking their careers in their own hands if they dare engage in operations that could be considered close to the edge. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that our intelligence officers are most likely going to be a lot more conservative in their approach. Do you think we will be safer? I sure don’t.

The openness that Democrats and the main stream media claim will come from a special prosecutor has nothing to do with determining the truth – no, they are celebrating the openness of airing out national security secrets in the name of restoring America’s relationship with the world and in the process compromising our national security… distracting our country from the real issue, an unsustainable national debt and a health care program we neither need nor can afford.

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