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Something else that shows typical liberal hypocrisy and how this is about politics and not ethics is the fact that this investigation is only being carried out against our intel services working during the Bush administration.

The Clinton administration embraced what is being called “torture” now.

Why no investigation of the democratic President:

Audio: Clinton endorses “torture” in special cases; Update: World opinion opposes “torture”
posted at 12:30 am on October 19, 2006 by Allahpundit
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/10/19/audio-clinton-endorses-torture-in-special-cases/
Tonight? Yesterday?
Last month, on NPR.
You didn’t hear about it? Neither did I. Nor did Captain Ed, who’s worth reading in full:

Bill Clinton’s party screamed loud and long about how the [detainee] bill enabled torture and departed from the Geneva Conventions. Russ Feingold described this legislation as “a stain” on our history, one we would regret, and soon. Yet none of these Democrats had anything to say when their last occupant of the White House not only endorsed torture but also a protocol for covering one’s butt after the fact.

Senator Chuck Schumer:

Sen. Chuck Schumer in 2004:
I think there are probably very few people in this room or in America who would say that torture should never ever be used, particularly if thousands of lives are at stake. . . . It is easy to sit back in the armchair and say that torture can never be used, but when you are in the foxhole it is a very different deal. And I respect, I think we all respect the fact that the President is in the foxhole every day.

Apparently the “foxhole” that Schumer is talking about turned into a “rabbit hole” as far as his and his constituents memories concerning EIT’s.

Here’s the left’s darling on international affairs after Bush fired him for being an absolute failure in protecting this country:

According to Clinton administration official Richard Clarke:

“ ‘extraordinary renditions’, were operations to apprehend terrorists abroad, usually without the knowledge of and almost always without public acknowledgment of the host government…. The first time I proposed a snatch, in 1993, the White House Counsel, Lloyd Cutler, demanded a meeting with the President to explain how it violated international law. Clinton had seemed to be siding with Cutler until Al Gore belatedly joined the meeting, having just flown overnight from South Africa. Clinton recapped the arguments on both sides for Gore: “Lloyd says this. Dick says that. Gore laughed and said, ‘That’s a no-brainer. Of course it’s a violation of international law, that’s why it’s a covert action. The guy is a terrorist. Go grab his ass.’”

So when Gore was yelling at the top of his lungs about how “Bush betrayed this country!!!”,he apparently and conveniently forgot his total disregard for American and International law.

More torture while the democrats were in charge:

CIA-backed team used brutal means to break up terrorist cell in Albania

Officials call operation one of the agency’s great successes

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1006205820963585440.html

By Andrew Higgins and Christopher Cooper
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Tirana was Naggar. He was nabbed in July 1998 by SHIK on
a road outside of town. He, too, was blindfolded and spirited home on a
CIA plane. In complaints in his confession and to his defense lawyer,
Abu-Saada, Naggar said his Egyptian interrogators regularly applied
electrical shocks to his nipples and pe##s.

Good thing nobody was blowing cigar smoke in their faces and keeping them up past their bedtime.

Why does Clinton get a pass by the morally self righteous crowd that wants justice for these crimes against humanity.

If liberals really cared so much about “truth” and “justice”,they would want justice for all….. if they really cared.

Baxter Greene on August 31, 2009 at 1:07 AM