Jed Babbin at Human Events reveals the continued efforts by Democrats in congress to try to nail anyone they can from the Bush administration to the wall no matter how damaging the process is to the Central Intelligence agency, or the country.
The Democrats’ strategy has succeeded so far because they are cherry-picking the information released to the public, letting out only the parts that they believe make the CIA and the Bush administration look like a bunch of torture-happy war criminals. (The fact that the “torture memos” show that waterboarding was legal in 2002-early 2003 when it was done is not admissible in the media narrative. But it is nevertheless true.)
President Obama published the so-called “torture memos” in May to fuel global outrage at what our interrogators were allowed to do.
But when Vice President Cheney asked that a particular set of documents be released to show that the information gained in harsh interrogations saved American lives, Obama refused, saying that while there were compelling reasons to release the methodology of interrogations there were none to release the documents Cheney said would prove the interrogations’ worth. When Cheney pressed the issue, Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Carl Levin (D-Mi) said that his committee’s report on Abu Ghraib “…gives the lie to Mr. Cheney’s claims.”
We suspect that the involvement of Leon Panetta who was Bill Clinton’s White House Chief of Staff alone warrants the claim that this goes beyond trying to paint the previous administration in a bad light.
