The foolishness reached a new level yesterday when Obama apparently reversed himself by suggesting that yes, indeed, there might be prosecutions over the "enhanced interrogation techniques" employed by the CIA.
According to Reuters, Obama said he
"would not necessarily oppose an effort to pursue a 'further accounting' or investigation into the Bush-era interrogation program …
"The stance marked a shift for the Obama administration, which has emphasized it does not want to dwell on the past."
Obama was unable to stand up to the pressures of the Left - inside Congress and without - who are not the least bit interested in letting bygones be gone.
The latest indication of how Obama's vengeful decision to release the memos in the first place are going to cause him more trouble than they will cause Bush Administration officials came yesterday.
According to another NY Times piece, Obama's top intelligence official, Adm. Dennis C. Blair, wrote a memo which appeared to support the interrogation techniques.
"High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used" he wrote, "and provided a deeper understanding of the al Qa'ida organization that was attacking this country."
The White House would do well to heed the caution in Romans and leave the vengeance to a higher power. |