*Video courtesy of AP/YouTube.
Talk about crippling our intelligence gathering agencies with an inferiority complex. President Obama has candidly indicated to the CIA that getting tough with terrorists will get them nothing but stern recriminations and endless prosecutions. And that is to say nothing of a general finger wagging in plain sight of the American people.
To the point, our leader has shifted interrogation duty for suspected terrorists from the CIA to the FBI, while partisan tool Attorney General Eric Holder is jeopardizing future intelligence gathering capacities with the nearly limitless nonsense of fretting over the legality of previously approved interrogation techniques--an issue examined carefully and exhaustively by the previous administration while being derided by outraged liberals as an attempt to push the very cusp of the law's expansive boundaries.
Forget that stripping the CIA of its bread and butter to favor the more problematic of two troubled organizations defies both a reasonable commitment to keeping our government within its wisely appointed bounds and common sense. Or that conducting a very public vilification of our nation's special servants is an extremely disagreeable and unnecessary attempt to hinder those who must take controversial risks to protect our country, both now and in the future. Clearly, it seems that President Obama is shoving aside the brave sacrifices of individual patriots in favor of a lumbering, incompetent government bureaucracy. Again.
To be sure, American intelligence has had its share of mistakes, miscalculations, and downright messes well out of proportion to its seemingly elite members. But President Obama should not simply conclude that an organization mandated to fight crimes against the nation--a policing action by definition--can replace the one currently facing the heavy and at times uncomfortable action of waging a brutal war against terrorists. Such is the purview of the CIA--despite ex-officer Robert Baer's idealized memory to the contrary--an agency more or less well equipped to do such lifting, or at least it is so as far as winning the war of ideas is concerned.
To maintain otherwise is to pretend that suspected terrorists are due the same rights as American citizens protected under the Constitution; that prosecution in civil courts is always desirable to that of military trials; and that the War on Terror is nothing more than politicized semantics, an overblown fear tactic utilized in garnering Republican votes, or oil, or whatever the Left has sanctimoniously deemed to be The Devil Himself on any particular day.
And this is a mistake, as the immediate and lasting consequences of softening the public perception of current circumstances does nothing to protect innocent lives--in fact, it endangers them as never before and promotes the further encroachment of a supposedly protective government.
Significantly, interrogation involves trickery, lies, and extreme forms of mental anguish by definition--and this is what forces nasty individuals bent on bloodshed to give up critical secrets without our operatives needlessly resorting to outright physical torture. Americans should not be squeamish about these facts, and neither should they be pulled into the current administration's overly dramatic canard that all of this amounts to some sort of revelation concerning new and unusually barbaric tactics. In fact, all of this is just old, mundane methodology that has been proven effective at the complementary goals of both making terrorists talk and safeguarding the nation's future.
It seems the only embarrassment here is that other like minded individuals did not speak up sooner, as it will take a tremendous and consistent groundswell of opposition from citizens to topple the monumental hubris of the Obama administration over healthcare reform.
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