Obama attacked on all sides over release of terror memos
President Barack Obama was attacked from all sides on Friday over his decision to declassify four memos detailing harsh CIA interrogation methods approved by the George W Bush administration for use against terror suspects.
Telegraph co.uk
By Alex Spillius
President Barack Obama was attacked from all sides on Friday over his decision to declassify four memos detailing harsh CIA interrogation methods approved by the George W Bush administration for use against terror suspects.
Former senior Bush officials criticised the president for giving away secrets to terrorists, and claimed that the tactics had worked.
Meanwhile, human rights groups took issue with Mr Obama’s declaration – issued alongside the memos – that agents who had used methods regarded as torture would not be prosecuted.
Amnesty International said: “The US Department of Justice appears to have offered a get-out-of-jail-free card to people involved in torture.”
It added: “Torture is never acceptable and those who conduct I should not escape justice.”
The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the freedom of information lawsuit in California that left the administration feeling it had no choice but to disclose the memos, wrote an open letter to Eric Holder, the Attorney General.
It demanded he appointed an independent prosecutor “to investigate who knew about and authorised the Bush administration’s torture policies” and bring prosecutions if warranted.
Reaction in the Middle East suggested that Mr Obama’s effort to build bridges with the Muslim world in the wake of Mr Bush’s “war on terror” and conflict in Iraq would be adversely affected.
The Egyptian Organisation for Human Rights in Cairo said the decision would encourage other nations to let abuses pass.
“Obama told us he will hold to account the people who committed a crime or a human rights violation,” he said. “So this is a wrong signal to the perpetrators of human rights – especially Third World countries.”
Wild Thing’s comment……..
This imo is TREASON. Release of these top secret memos for political gain is an act of treason. Americans need to think for one minute as to who gains from the release of these documents: America’s enemies and Barrack Obama.
Hussein just beheaded intelligence gathering and it will be many many years before it can be trusted again.
ELINT (Electronic Intelligence Teams ) is our only hope for a long time, and we understand that it does have some limitations that has. That will probably be Obama’s next target.
And giving the enemy information on how they will be interrogated gives them a better chance to withstand it. thus, 0bama has given aid and comfort to the enemies of the US. The best ‘torture’ device you have, while you are being nice, is the victims own paranoia on how bad you’re going to be.
This half breed girly boy needs to be impeached for treason, convicted and executed before one of our enemies decides to try out their new missile system on America.
As I’ve said elsewhere, there’s nothing quite like slipping the terrorists a crib sheet.
Rope, tree, no instructions needed.
cuchieddie/RVN 66-68, good one…..
“half breed girly boy”
Rick, your right!!
Jack, Abe Lincoln would be having a
fit knowing Obama was in office.
All those bleeding heart organizations are worrying about the prisoners and how they were treated. Ever one of those prisoners are still alive, fed, and well. Every American GI captured by the terrorist friends of these prisoners could only be identified by DNA. Why don’t you see Amnesty International or the ACLU protesting the treatment of American Prisoners?
Matter-of-Fact, I’ve never heard Obama once mention how Americans captured by insurgents were treated, or should I say the method of their torture and execution. Why doesn’t the Commander-in-Chief say something about his own peoples treatment?
If he’s not a traitor, it’s only because he’s the most successful spy in human history. His sole purpose is the destruction of this nation, and he’s doing a damn fine job of it.
Yes, he needs immediate removal from his position, and execution for on or the other of those two things listed above. Treason. Or espionage.