Cheney Blowtorch Blasts Obama

As if Obama health care is not unpopular enough the country now faces the prospect of Attorney General Eric Holder investigating the CIA. Will this be a diversionary ruse to take the heat off of the health care bill?

This is your first interview since Attorney General Holder named a prosecutor to investigate possible CIA abuses of terror detainees.

What do you think of that decision?
~Chris Wallace, “Fox News Sunday”

I think it’s a terrible decision. President Obama made the announcement some weeks ago that this would not happen, that his administration would not go back and look at or try to prosecute CIA personnel. And the effort now is based upon the inspector general’s report that was sent to the Justice Department five years ago, was completely reviewed by the Justice Department in years past.

They made decisions about whether or not there was any prosecutable offense there. They found one. It did not involve CIA personnel, it involved contract personnel. That individual was sentenced and is doing time. The matter’s been dealt with the way you would expect it to be dealt with by professionals.

Now we’ve got a political appointee coming back, and supposedly without the approval of the president, going to do a complete review, or another complete investigation, possible prosecution of CIA personnel. We could talk the whole program about the negative consequences of that, about the terrible precedent it sets, to have agents involved, CIA personnel involved, in a difficult program that’s approved by the Justice Department, approved by the National Security Council, and the Bush administration, and then when a new administration comes in, it becomes political.

They may find themselves dragged up before a grand jury, have to hire attorneys on their own because the Justice Department won’t provide them with counsel.

It’s a terrible, terrible precedent.
~Former Vice-President Dick Cheney

There is no doubt that this is a purely political move on the part of Democrats and has absolutely nothing to do with justice. Liberals just cannot let go of their hatred of George Bush. They are bound and determined to dredge up the past in order to try and prosecute the past administration for allegedly allowing enhanced interrogations. With a bevy of Democratic debt-producing bills facing the country Americans will not tolerate this distraction.

As pointed out by Cheney we are once again faced with interagency conflicts with the formation of a new unit known as the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group (HIG). It’s unclear who has control of this unit. Where is the interagency cooperation? This is precisely the problem that has gotten the country into trouble in the past. The FBI, CIA, and Justice Department not sharing information that would be mutually beneficial to all agencies with none claiming responsibility.

Does Obama actually think it was some quirk or stroke of luck or that the enemies of America just gave up and decided not to attack us again out of the kindness of their heart during the years after the 9/11 attacks? There can be no denying the fact that whatever the Bush administration did or allowed in order to protect America, it unequivocally worked. This continues to be a thorn in the side of the liberal left.