This president never ceases to amaze me. He lets ‘friendly’ politicians off the hook who are involved in corruption scandals, he lets thugs go free who intimidate and threaten voters so that he can get elected and yet he goes after the very people who protected us in the aftermath of 9/11.
Now he has appointed a special interrogation group that replaces the CIA when it comes to detainee interrogations:
The changing landscape for how the United States handles terrorism suspects is unmistakable.
Under task force recommendations that President Obama intends to follow, a new High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group will be housed in the FBI and subject to oversight from the White House-based National Security Council.
The head of the unit, while not named, reportedly will be an FBI official and this official, the White House says, will report directly to FBI Director Robert Mueller.
Attorney David Rivkin, a former Justice Department official and frequent critic of the reversal of CIA practices, said the shift brings the fight against terrorism “full circle” to a time when it was treated largely as a criminal crackdown. “This is a full return to Sept. 10 mentality,” he said.
Charles Krauthammer also doesn’t mince any words about mirandizing captured terrorists and what we’ll learn from them:
“If we capture Osama [Bin Laden] tomorrow, we will learn how he likes his lamb prepared and that’s it. We will learn nothing else from him.”