Comments on: WSJ: Obama may retain Bush interrogation policies, Gates as SecDef

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Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:44:54 +0000

[...] have screamed the most about (including domestic eavesdropping which he once opposed; including the right to use enhanced interrogation methods should he deem it appropriate; including the use of rendition to send terrorist suspects to [...]

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Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:04:10 +0000

[...] instance, President Obama has reserved unto himself the right to order the use of enhanced interrogation should he deem it appropr…. Given that President Bush used the technique against only three individuals shortly after the [...]

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By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Shhh: Obama may create “classified loophole” for enhanced interrogations

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:12:06 +0000

[...] news here is that this isn’t news. Less than a week after the election, rumors were already swirling that he was going to retain the option “in certain cases” to use procedures not [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Obama names Clinton crony who’s never worked in intelligence to head CIA

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:38:46 +0000

[...] junk the whole Bush interrogation apparatus or whether he merely wants Panetta as cover to quietly retain certain parts of it — or certain personnel, like Brennan, in lower-profile deputy roles — I guess [...]

By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » Smerconish: When it comes to torturing Al Qaeda, anything goes

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:21:28 +0000

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By: The Nutroots Will Be Displeased « Beltway Snark

The Nutroots Will Be Displeased « Beltway Snark — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:26:59 +0000

[...] Nutroots Will Be Displeased Jump to Comments The more things Change, the more they stay the same. President-elect Barack Obama is unlikely to radically overhaul controversial Bush administration [...]

By: nottakingsides

nottakingsides — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:39:31 +0000

This way Obama can still blame Booooosh for everything that goes wrong.

By: Ares

Ares — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:00:46 +0000

Wouldn’t be surprised to see The One keep Gates in office.

I reckon his intelligence briefing was a real eye-opener, and the more I think about it the more I realise he simply hasn’t got the backbone to go against the entire military and intelligence community to execute some kind of moonbat fantasy re Iraq and terrorism in general.

By: nyrofan

nyrofan — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:12:41 +0000

Think Obama may have been mugged by reality when he got his first intel briefing the other day?

flipflop on November 11, 2008 at 1:06 PM

Yes. Obama has put on his big-boy pants. He can’t play with the children anymore.

By: Security Mom

Security Mom — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:49:42 +0000

It doesn’t matter, the left will forget that they were against this; they are deranged.

By: Speedwagon82

Speedwagon82 — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:34:40 +0000

The nutroots will forgive him anything short of being friends with Dick Cheney.

By: Terrye

Terrye — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:28:40 +0000

I think Obama might well screw his base. After all, they gave him money and voted for him. Who needs em now?

I also think that if there was anyway to get Osama, Bush would have done it. The idea that Barack Obama is going to come up with something new in the hunt for the terrorist is very unlikely.

By: Domino

Domino — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:28:38 +0000

Yeah, right. And he may not, too.

Bruno Strozek on November 11, 2008 at 1:00 PM

I don’t trust him.

By: right2bright

right2bright — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:33:45 +0000

Obama is going to have to come down to earth a little after he learns more and more about the real world by having access to all information.

Grafted on November 11, 2008 at 2:22 PM

As someone stated…The office changes the man, the man doesn’t change the office.

By: Grafted

Grafted — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:22:32 +0000

Obama is going to have to come down to earth a little after he learns more and more about the real world by having access to all information.

By: lodge

lodge — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:19:44 +0000

Actually, Gates should step down just so I can die laughing at Obambi’s SecDef choice

By: right2bright

right2bright — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:13:19 +0000

Well those protesters are going to be really upset…seeing as they were the only ones “waterboarded” in the past several years.

By: keep the change

keep the change — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:08:41 +0000

Wait a minute. Since when is torturing suspects a bad thing? If information which can be verified is obtained, what’s the problem? Convoluted ideals of morality are not for nations to wrestle with. Nations do not have consciences. Such matters are only for the individual. Just as adultery may be wrong, we don’t pass laws against it for what offends an individual should have no bearing on what is in the best interests of the people as a whole.

Nations must protect their people and their self-interest. Every other concern is peripheral to that. If you have a problem with torturing terror suspects, all that means is that you have the right, in a free nation, to abstain from taking part. But because stronger men than you must do the dirty work that benefits all, you should be forced to pay a fee. Having a conscience is not free. It can be quite costly in fact. So every objector to this practice, should pay that fee. Heaven forbid the nation pays it.

By: the_nile

the_nile — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:55:12 +0000

It looks like a leak to check if anyone important cares. If there’s trouble, Obama can get out and deny that any decision has been taken by him.

By: jeff_from_mpls

jeff_from_mpls — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:52:54 +0000

In case the moral is lost on lefties, here it is:

Any blowhard can smoke a doobie, invent a utopia, and demonize everyone else who is too stupid to get it.

But once that blowhard has to make a grown-up decision, he’ll put down the doobie and become a conservative.

Suck it up commies.

By: drjohn

drjohn — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:46:34 +0000

Why not? They already voted.

Jim Treacher on November 11, 2008 at 1:45 PM

Well, there’s 2012! Gotta get ready!

Or maybe he realizes they’re too willingly idiotic to remember.

By: drjohn

drjohn — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:45:17 +0000

Keep Gates?

I guess he needs a fall guy.

Run, Bob, RUN!

By: Jim Treacher

Jim Treacher — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:45:15 +0000

That said, does anyone seriously believe he’s going to pick a fight with the left on this, of all subjects?

Why not? They already voted.