Supposedly if Obama decides that the hood of the CIA should be popped open and a look given to the machine running beneath it, it would be bad for politics. First it would somehow take away from morale at the CIA and second Republicans and moderates would have a fit.
Let me see if I understand this correctly, because maybe I am just a bit confused here: The CIA, a US government agency is accused of torturing people (which is illegal in the US), and people don´t want to know. Pathetic. A nation that likes to think of itself as a democracy and a place of laws has an obligation to investigate and prosecute for misscarriages of justice; no matter the scenario.
The other side of the coin is this: if the CIA didn´t do anything wrong then there will be no consequences of this investigation, so if they are innocent as they claim then they should welcome an investigation. This doesn´t seem to be the case.
Finally, in regards to Republican stances of righteous anger about prosecuting their sacred cow, I ask how was it possible that they went after Clinton for a blow job but torture is somehow ok. Something is rotten in that party.
Moments in time captured with various odd symbols referred to in the lingua franca as letters.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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Right on. The danger is, that at a time when Obama is vulnerable due to the loss of momentum on his Health Care project, this investigation will only hurt him more.
So be it. I'd rather the only candidate who has ever made me proud to vote for him lost his next election than have to go abroad and be unable to hold my head high because my country doesn't do what it says it's going to do.
Have you read Glenn Greenwald? He's been writing about this for a long time, and he's not too happy about the proposed investigations, because he thinks some low-level agents are going to pay the price when the abuse reaches much higher:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/08/24/ig_report/
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