War On Terror: California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and her fellow Senate Democrats torture report is as dangerous as it is libelous. Our friends know that they shouldnt trust us; our enemies will be emboldened to attack. It speaks volumes that the White House Wednesday refused to answer ABC News correspondent Jon Karls question on whether information extracted from terrorist prisoners through enhanced interrogation saved lives, as the CIA argues. According to White House press secretary Josh Earnest, the U.S., by acknowledging our shortcomings in releasing the Senate Democrats report on the tough methods, will help rebuild the moral authority of the worlds lone superpower. President Obama has been in office for almost six years now, and we have his own CIA factually refuting a report that he extols as right on the money. The CIA declassified the fact that detainee Ammar al-Baluchi, for instance, was subjected to harsh methods and subsequently revealed that Abu Ahmad al-Kuwaiti was an Osama bin Laden courier — information instrumental in killing the al-Qaida founder. The agency also said that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was waterboarded, in 2003 gave information that foiled the London Heathrow Airport terrorist plot, which would have killed hundreds at least. Former CIA director Michael Hayden also told Fox News the methods gave the U.S. a Home Depot-like storage of information on al-Qaida we still rely on. As former CIA analyst and Center for Security Policy senior fellow Fred Fleitz writes in NewsMax, Feinsteins five-year investigation, costing taxpayers $50 million, includes a 38-page table on statements about the program made by Hayden that essentially accuses him of repeatedly lying to Congress — yet Senate Democrat investigators refused to interview Hayden or other CIA personnel. Enough of this acknowledging our shortcomings by the greatest nation on earth. This report tells our allies that we are a superpower lying on a psychiatrists couch, wracked with guilt and unable to keep either secrets or promises. Would Poland, or the dozens of other countries that helped us house and transport terrorist prisoners, ever go out on a limb for the U.S. again when we are so plagued with doubt in our own methods and purposes? Other facts also smash the Senate reports legitimacy: secret rendition of terrorists, for instance, took place under President Bill Clinton; Feinstein, and the White House too, used the Holocaust term never again for such questioning — but she has a personal beef against the CIA for peeking into her committees databases; high-ranking congressional Democrats were briefed dozens of times about the harsh methods during the Bush administration yet repeatedly acceded to them. Moreover, which is more just: having a U.S. drone act as judge, jury and executioner of terrorists, which is the Obama administrations approach? Or capture them and make them reveal their fellow jihadists plots? Heres an idea: How about investigating the IRSs violation of the rights of innocent Americans instead of the CIAs roughing up of murderous terrorists? Read More At Investors Business Daily: news.investors/ibd-editorials/121014-730054-cia-tough-methods-saved-lives-but-democrats-attack.htm#ixzz3LXbk9rgY Follow us: @IBDinvestors on Twitter | InvestorsBusinessDaily on Facebook
Posted on: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 00:24:24 +0000
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