After declaring he would rather look forward, President Barack Obama is delving instead into the past to deal with lingering assertions of CIA mistreatment of terror suspects during the Bush administration.
Gee, imagine if they'd done something about this just when it was just the right thing to do; not because they were up against a wall legally.
By "they" I mean not just President Obama or his administration but every Democrat in Congress at least since '06. They left an awfully big mess for him to clean up, which they could've helped take care of if they'd just--ohwhatisthephrase--done their jobs.
Obama's approval of a new elite interrogation unit — to operate within the FBI but under supervision of an interagency group to be chaired by the White House national security adviser — allowed him to get out in front of the decision by Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a government prosecutor and the administration's release of a newly declassified report detailing harsh Bush-era interrogation practices.
According to the material, CIA interrogators conducted mock executions, threatened to kill the children of one detainee and implied that another's mother would be sexually assaulted.
Remember that paragraph as you read this next one.
Some people at the CIA did that. And still:
Obama doesn't want to be portrayed as being soft on suspected terrorists and finds himself under pressure from both the right and the left to do something.
And here, we have another of the things Bush did to us.
Not making people think they're going to be executed, their family members killed and raped is considered being soft on terrorism now.
Gosh, we’re butch.
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