President Obama Defends Health Care, refuses to halt CIA probe

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http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/politics/NATL-Obama-Defends-Health-Care-CIA-Probe-on-Media-Blitz-59934907.html

President Obama went on the defense Sunday on everything from health care to the CIA interrogation probe, saying on five Sunday talk shows that the policies he's begun to enact will have a positive effect on American citizens.

President Obama again repeated his pledge to health care and promised citizens his bill wouldn't be all talk like some legislation of the past -- but that it would seriously reform the "big problem" of health care provision in the country. He also shot down GOP notions that requiring people to get health insurance and fining them if they don't would amount to a tax increase.

"I absolutely reject that notion," Obama told George Stephanopolous on ABC's "This Week." "This isn't a radical plan," he said.

The commander in chief also flatly refused to oblige the seven past CIA chiefs who asked him this weekend to halt the probe of the agency's harsh interrogation procedures used post-September 11. "Ultimately, the law is the law, and we don't go around sort of picking and choosing how we approach it," he said on CNN's "State of the Union."




Obama refuses to halt CIA probe
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8265516.stm

transcript
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/20/ftn/main5324077.shtml?tag=contentMain
They are simply investigating what took place. And I appreciate the former CIA directors wanting to look after an institution that they helped to build. But I continue to believe that nobody's above the law. And I want to make sure that as President of the United States that I'm not asserting in some way that my decisions over rule the decisions of prosecutors who are there to uphold the law.

CQ Transcript: President Obama on ABC’s ‘This Week’
http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=1&docID=news-000003206296

[midnight]

1. I like the notion that the law is to be upheld....

[polichick]

2. But it SHOULD be "a radical plan," not just a tweak to the status quo. nt

[Jennicut]

3. "Nobody's above the law"....best sentiment I ever heard him say. The ex-CIA directors

need to understand that. Its not up to Obama to stop it anyway. Its through the Justice Dept.

[HopeOverFear]

4. How is that being on the defense?

[Indigent]

5. Obama cannot halt the CIA probe

Even if he wanted to. It's Holder's territory.

[Parker CA]

6. "Ultimately, the law is the law, and we don't go around sort of picking and choosing...

how we approach it..." This is excellent. He's laying it down and standing up to the criminals who are attempting to keep their actions buried.

I'm sure Holder was aware of his sentiments, but he must be walking a little taller this morning.

Good for you, Mr. Pres!!

[Cha]

7. Rec'd~ News

like this needs more exposure.

Fuckin' snuffynouplous trying to worm in there that PO has a "radical" plan and good on PO for shutting his talking point Down.