The Reckoning: CIA Interrogation Investigation Closed Without Further Charges
With the nation’s eyes fixed on Tampa, the Obama Justice Department quietly announced the closure of its much heralded investigation into purported torture, murder, and other war crimes that the Bush-deranged Left alleged were committed in carrying out the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program.
Attorney General Eric Holder issued a statement Thursday afternoon, reporting that the investigation was being terminated without charges.
Most of the allegations had been investigated during the Bush years — not by political appointees but by career prosecutors, who after diligent scrubbing determined that there were no prosecutable cases. The 2008 Obama campaign nevertheless accused Bush officials of war crimes. No one was louder on the subject than then-campaign spokesman Holder, who stoked Obama’s base in a speech at the leftist American Constitution Society:
Our government authorized the use of torture, approved of secret electronic surveillance against American citizens, secretly detained American citizens without due process of law, denied the writ of habeas corpus to hundreds of accused enemy combatants and authorized the use of procedures that violate both international law and the United States Constitution.
Holder promised a “reckoning” for Bush’s “needlessly abusive and unlawful practices” that not only offended “the Constitution and the rule of law” but “made us less rather than more safe.” Having thus passed the audition with flying colors, Holder was named Obama’s attorney general and assured the Senate panel considering his nomination that the CIA had surely committed “torture” in the interrogation program by waterboarding three — count ‘em, three — high-value al-Qaeda detainees (with the knowledge of bipartisan congressional leadership, including Rep. Nancy Pelosi).
The enhanced interrogation program yielded life-saving intelligence that enabled the government to prevent a reprise of 9/11-scale domestic attacks despite several attempts. Yet, echoing President Obama, Holder was quick to libel interrogators as torturers even though at the time of his confirmation hearing he had not been read into the actual details of the top secret program or the fastidious guidelines in place to ensure that the crime of torture, as defined by U.S. law, was never close to being committed.
They are putting these myths out just to catch liars claiming that they were tortured. (My theory.)
Years ago in the counter-jihad blogosphere we used to joke about how it was easier to simply kill jihadis than to capture them. We were very insensitive to joke about such things, Islamophobia… yadda… yadda…
Then Obama actually implemented the idea. Other than Greenwald, some UN kleptocrats, and the European Left, nobody cares. It’s good to be a Lefty.
I know somebody who really did order the execution of an unarmed prisoner.
Leftists cares about torture (aka “torcher”) or anything else under the sun only to the extent that a meme is put out there for them to get their shorts in a knot or panties in a wad about it.
Manipulated by the faux outrage of lowlifes like Eric Holder, the lemmings, the good little Useful Idiots, respond on cue.
When a topic passes or the particular meme of outrage (MOO) is replaced by their handlers with another MOO, their “caring and concern” is kaput.
Obama & Holder, their minions and surrogates, are not only shameless manipulators but are enemies of the nation.
Now we can replace all those lawyers with some unaffiliated prosecutors to look into fast & furious. If we’re going to have a witch hunt, let’s target true evil doers.
It’s really pitiful to accuse those who take the risks necessary to capture the high value targets of not treating them right when you just blow them up with UAV borne missiles, and thusly forsake any chance of exploiting the intelligence value which a capture would have afforded.
What is the merit of arguing against detention while refusing to assume its costs and the responsibilities that come with it? It only amounts to carving political gain by denying credit to those who truly deserve it. It’s about time we get a CIC who appreciates our most courageaous servants, and does not subject them to unwarranted exposure.
If I was a member of the military or the special forces, I’d be really pissed now. Those who enroll under these circumstances are true heroes, fully deserving of all our gratitude.
So looking forward the end of this horrendous administration… cannot come too soon.
IMHO, if Obama wins in November, Holder will reopen these cases the next day. Professor Yoo gets a two month reprieve.
Would it be fair to bring him back to DoJ, to prosecute Holder in Romney wins?
DOJ also quietly dropped the Sheriff Arpaio suit….Clearly, Holder et al realize that they are going to lose the election. By dropping their harrassing activities, they hope that the Romney admin won’t come after them and if the Romney admin does, then they will claim that it is retaliation.
Pretty obvious, folks.
Now we need to revisit the case of “Army Ranger 1st Lieutenant Michael Behenna [who]was sentenced to 25 years in prison for killing Ali Mansur, a known Al Qaeda operative while serving in Iraq.” The prosecutions own expert witness said the wounds on Ali Mansur matched Behenna’s description of what happened.
http://www.defendmichael.com/
So, did he really plan on winning a conviction or was he just punishing people by making them pay lawyer fees on their own dime?
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