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But in late June Holder asked an aide for a copy of the CIA inspector general's thick classified report on interrogation abuses. He cleared his schedule and, over two days, holed up alone in his Justice Depart ment office, immersed himself in what Dick Cheney once referred to as "the dark side." He read the report twice, the first time as a lawyer, looking for evidence and instances of transgressions that might call for prosecution. The second time, he started to absorb what he was reading at a more emotional level. He was "shocked and saddened," he told a friend, by what government servants were alleged to have done in America's name. When he was done he stood at his window for a long time, staring at Constitution Avenue.

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  • Posted By: eddymontana @ 09/26/2009 8:41:07 AM

    Intellegence services have done a great service to the free world by stopping any further attacks. Going after the people who have done what they were asked and expected to do for our safety is wrong. If the rules of engagement are changed by those who do not enjoin the fight, then those who do will quit, and then we have a situation liken to the problems of Viet Nam, a war we could not win, bot because we could not defeat them, but because the media stole our honor over a few who did wrong because they were frustrated with the way they were protrayed and treated by the liberals who took over and made it a mess they were not there to fix the problems of social injustice of the people who wanted freedom.

  • Posted By: mjkoch @ 08/24/2009 7:37:19 AM

    The fact that President Obama put methods in place to insure that torture and abuse never happens again apparently is not enough for the liberals who want to emasculate our intelligence agencies. No sane person will ever want to join the CIA, NSA, or DIA, for fear that their actions, in defense of our country, will put them in a prison cell.

    The folks who celebrated the release of the terrorist who brought down the plane over Lockerbie Scotland, the murderers from Al Queda, Hamas, and Hezbollah, and the terrorist States of Iran, Syria, North Korea, and Russia must all be celebrating the liberal democrats of America destroying our country for them.

    The liberals always blame the victim and never blame the perpetrator. The valiant men and women who work for our intelligence agencies deserve better than to be thrown to the wolves. We are in a war with people who want to destroy us and we must use every means at our disposal to defeat them before they use a weapon of mass destruction on our country and only a fool believes that these groups have given up trying to do that.

    Some day, the fact that 3,000 Americans will murdered on 911 will be forgotten because the next terrorist act will dwarf that number many times over in the dead men, women, and children whose lives were snuffed out by evil people. The reason for this will be because we are now trying to blindfold and tie the hands behind their backs of our intelligence personnel and then send them out to try and defend us, and that will only seek to greatly aid those who seek our end.

  • Posted By: excaliburgc @ 08/24/2009 6:11:43 AM

    Watch this video and it will scare you.
    Bush and Obama are just puppets to the New World Order
    Christians time is near
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw

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