FÅR spioner vara hemliga?

CIA i USA, tja…. Jag har ingen åsikt eller överblick över dem – det är ju idén bakom en hemlig organisation, att ingen utom ytterligt få ska veta vad de sysslar med, annars uppstår med 100% säkerhet läckor till skada för landet. Att spioner också måste använda rätt brutala metoder i sitt jobb – tja, det är ännu brutalare människor de ofta får hantera. Att försöka göra det vackert och öppet hade varit exakt samma sak som ett tvång att exponera alla angivare och spioner för öppen ridå och göra livet omöjligt för dem. Vi känner igen mönstret från Israel med omgivningar – utan ett stort antal arabiska angivare som faktiskt vill ha fred, hade det varit omöjligt att finna så många terrorister, och lika omöjligt är det med en rättegång där angivarna är vittnen.

Det otroliga i TT:s rapportering, DN SvD AB är att de visar att de helt och hållet står på terroristgruppen al Qaedas sida gentemot USA, vilket inte känns ärskilt klarsynt.

Obama började sin korta karriär med två helt absurda prioriteter: att attackera Israel så hårt han kunde (en god start var att han ringde Abbas som den första ledaren efter att ha blivit vald, för att försäkra honom att han stod helt på hans sida gentemot judarna) och därefter attackera CIA, USA:s säkerhetsorganisation. Mr Zero roade sej med att avslöja en lång rad militära hemligheter, som de hemliga 40-åriga avtalet med Israel om kärnvapen,  enbart för att exponera individer från Bush-eran och visa alla islamska terrorister hur ärligt hans leende är. Guantanamo skulle tömmas, fångarna släppas loss vad de än hade gjort.

Ett rätt hårt uttalande hörs här av en observatör:

Fred Thompson: Obama Loosed ‘Dogs of War’ on CIA

Sunday, April 26, 2009 4:45 PM

By: Jim Meyers

Former Senator, TV star and presidential candidate Fred Thompson tells Newsmax that President Barack Obama is revealing his “naivete, ineptitude and arrogance” as he deals with matters of national security.

The Tennessee Republican, who now hosts a radio show on Westwood One along with his wife Jeri, also said the “dogs of war have been loosed” over left-wing attempts to single out Bush-era officials for prosecution relating to the treatment of detainees.

Newsmax.TV’s Ashley Martella cited the announcement that the Defense Department is going to release many pictures showing alleged abuse by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, and asked Thompson what purpose that might serve.

“None, other than to serve as propaganda tools for our worst enemies,” Thompson said.

“This was set in motion when the president first decided to release” CIA memos on interrogation techniques used on terrorist suspects, Thompson told Newsmax.

“There was no purpose in doing that except to make him look good internationally and to the left wing here at home,” he said. “It did a lot of damage.

“In one stroke of a pen he declassified top-secret documents that people would otherwise go to jail for releasing. It gave al-Qaida and the Taliban a blueprint as to the outer limits of our interrogation techniques.

“We have to remember that [the techniques were used] in the aftermath of 9/11. Congress was briefed on these techniques. Some of them asked if they were really going far enough to get what they needed to get, and it was approved at high levels in the administration.

“They carefully crafted them as best they could to not go too far, and to provide safeguards when they were carrying out these admittedly rough techniques on these people who had this vital information.

“So now we’re really talking about a war crimes tribunal, which this country has never done. We’ve never brought to criminal court prior administrations in this country.

“Harry Truman could have been accused of war crimes, I suppose, for dropping the bombs. President Obama authorized the killing of those three [pirates] in the Indian Ocean not too long ago. Prosecuting these people under these circumstances is something you hear about in banana republics and third-world countries, not the United States of America.

“The president’s opened up a terrible Pandora’s Box and there’s going to be a price to pay before this thing is ended.”

Martella asked if the Obama administration was acquiescing to its far-left base when it released the CIA memos on interrogation techniques.

“I think in this case, in all probability, they thought that they could cater to their left wing, appease their demands, by releasing these memos and then it might not go any further,” Thompson said.

“Because surely they were able to see that this was bad for them the way it’s going to be bad for the country.

“This is going to have ramifications that are far-reaching. They thought they could put the genie back in the bottle after they opened it, and of course appeasement never works that way.

“There was a firestorm. The attorney general’s received 250 names in a petition to urge the appointment of a special prosecutor for this. The left-wing blogs went nuts. They started running television ads and so forth.

“And then after promising that there would be no prosecutions, [Obama] acquiesced and now opened the door for that. So I think it’s a case of naivete, ineptitude and unbelievable arrogance and lack of experience.

“We elected someone who didn’t have two minutes’ worth of experience with regard to matters concerning national security. Now he’s cast in this position and he’s making decisions that are going to have far-reaching ramifications not only abroad, and not only with our enemies, but in dividing our country even further here at home in ways I don’t think we’ve ever been divided before.

“We’re going to have members of Congress testifying against each other if they go down this road.”

Martella noted that Rep. Peter King of New York has said that if Democrats do go ahead and attempt to prosecute Bush administration CIA interrogation lawyers, the Republicans should “go to war” with them.

“That just gives you an example of the atmosphere on Capitol Hill today,” Thompson observed.

“People are angry. People are upset. You’ve got people on the left, you’ve got the Democrats talking about truth commissions, talking about investigations and Congressional hearings and urging prosecution. They’re fighting among each other on the Democratic side as to just how they should go and how far they should go.”

Some of these Democrats are “the same people who were briefed on these techniques back in 2002,” Thompson said, “including Nancy Pelosi, who’s not telling the truth now, who’s trying to parse words and trying to get around the fact that she knew what was going on, as others did back when this happened.

“That creates a new level of animosity like I’ve never seen before, and I served in the Senate for eight years. The dogs of war have been loosed in this country and I don’t know what is going to happen before we see the end of it. But none of it’s going to be good.”

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