When the best-selling author of political-thriller novels, Vince Flynn (Act of Treason, Consent to Kill), appeared on Fox News Channel's Glenn Beck Show last Friday, he blasted Attorney General Eric Holder.
The move was part of Attorney General Eric Holder’s intention to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the CIA agents involved in interrogations already investigated by the CIA’s Inspector General’s Office. Holder's critics have pointed out that his law firm represented several terrorists who were tried by the U.S.
Groups such as Amnesty International, Code Pick and others are applauding Attorney General Holder’s decision to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate cases brought to the Department of Justice against members of the Central Intelligence Agency.
The premise of this questionable investigation is the allegations of misconduct by interrogators who questioned suspected terrorist leaders and their foot soldiers.
According to the CIA’s inspector general’s report, during Bush-era interrogations of suspects, CIA agents carried out mock executions — although no one was physically harmed — and the agents made threats of violent torture.
“Attorney General Holder has been biting at the bit since he took office in January to go after someone — anyone — regarding what he views as torture, although the IG’s report reveals there were only threats of doing physical harm to the terrorists and their associates,” said former NYPD Det. Sid Frances, a former intelligence officer.
“The timing of this news is suspect, as well. Obama’s having trouble with his left-wing supporters and with this move by Holder, the Obama Admninistration is throwing them a bone to keep them from deserting him during his push to pass a health care bill,” said the decorated detective and former Marine.
Larry Cox, Amnesty International USA’s executive director, issued the following statement about the release of various documents and announcements regarding Holder’s action:
“That the Bush administration was prepared to abandon America’s human rights legal obligations is a cautionary tale for those who think any nation can disregard human rights in the fight against terrorism. The report demonstrates that the US government agencies’ internal monitoring systems are unreliable in upholding American values or laws. Compliance comes through disclosure and reform.”
“The IG’s report demonstrates that it is more important than ever that a comprehensive and independent investigation with the full force of the law is created to reveal and hold accountable those who requested, devised and carried out illegal counter-terrorism practices. It’s time to appoint a special prosecutor to prove that U.S. laws will be enforced, no matter who violated them,” said Cox.
Meanwhile, many security and intelligence professionals are not happy about this latest round of accusations and its creation of a new media feeding frenzy during a time of war.
“Holder was a Clinton Justice Department bigwig who — along with another Associate Attorney General, Jamie Goerlick — actually contributed to the US being blind-sided on September 11, 2001. During the Clinton Administration, [Attorney General Janet] Reno, Holder and Goerlick prohibited FBI agents from sharing information with the CIA and vice versa. They even forbade FBI agents involved with intelligence gathering or counterintelligence from communicating with FBI agents involved in law enforcement. A terrorist couldn’t have created a better scenario,” said security analyst George McHugh.
“These people — Obama, Holder, MoveOn.Org, the ACLU and others — are working hard to make Americans less safe and terrorists more secure. It’s insanity,” he said.
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Sure-sure - another piece of crap "conservative" isn't content to have, with his party, given us the worst president in American history to cripple the country, he has to run in to defend the murderous psychopaths at the CIA who tortured 100 mostly innocent people to death. What an *ssh^le.
The National Association of Chiefs of Police, to which the bottomfeeding "author" belongs, has had intimate CIA ties for decades. There's a "slight" conflict of interest here. This bullshit propaganda is for the nits who watch Fox News and live in a delusional universe. All others should avoid this vicious fascist propaganda like the plague.
if you guys are going to write such things, why don't you have the balls to use your names? is it because you know you're full of crap?
Further food for thought, mebbe? Not widely reported is the fact these five terrorists pled guilty December 8, 2008 and requested martyrdom in the military court system. Their guilty pleas were held in abeyance by the military presiding judge, pending a psychiatric evaluation as to the competency of the guilty pleas. The psychiatrists at Walter Reed hospital were charged with this evaluation.
Then-Captain Hasan was a medical psychiatrist at that time, and into the Obama Administration after inauguration. The military guilty pleas have been set aside, Hasan was promoted to Major and transferred to Fort Hood. The five would-be martyrs had their military tribunal pleas set aside, and a determination has been made unilaterally (if we are to believe the White House) to try these war criminals as civilian malefactors, rather than terrorists who launched holy jihadist war on the United States. And, we are to believe there will be a guaranteed guilty conviction on each of the five terrorists?
Further food for thought, mebbe? Not widely reported is the fact these five terrorists pled guilty December 8, 2008 and requested martyrdom in the military court system. Their guilty pleas were held in abeyance by the military presiding judge, pending a psychiatric evaluation as to the competency of the guilty pleas. The psychiatrists at Walter Reed hospital were charged with this evaluation.
Then-Captain Hasan was a medical psychiatrist at that time, and into the Obama Administration after inauguration. The military guilty pleas have been set aside, Hasan was promoted to Major and transferred to Fort Hood. The five would-be martyrs had their military tribunal pleas set aside, and a determination has been made unilaterally (if we are to believe the White House) to try these war criminals as civilian malefactors, rather than terrorists who launched holy jihadist war on the United States. And, we are to believe there will be a guaranteed guilty conviction on each of the five terrorists?
"They even forbade FBI agents involved with intelligence gathering or counterintelligence from communicating with FBI agents involved in law enforcement. A terrorist couldn’t have created a better scenario"
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> Are you kidding me? says: if you guys are going to write such things, why don't you have the balls to use your names?
"Are You Kidding Me," you are a typical Fox News creepie - hypocritical in the extreme, foul mouthed and belligerent, If Cheney likes torture, torture him, but you'll never have the high road, and may still see the war criminals you support tried for their atrocities.
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