CIA lawyer: Obama ‘endorsed’ nearly all Bush-era programs

[babsbunny]

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/cia-lawyer-obama-endorsed-nearly-all-bush-era-programs/

Posted on 09.1.11
By Stephen C. Webster
Categories: Featured, Nation

In a preview of a forthcoming PBS Frontline documentary, John Rizzo, one of the top attorneys for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), claims that President Barack Obama has “endorsed” nearly all of the controversial Bush administration secret warfare programs.

“I was part of the transition briefings of the incoming Obama team, and they signaled fairly early on that the incoming president believed in a vigorous, aggressive, continuing counterterrorism effort,” Rizzo said. “Although they never said it exactly, it was clear that the interrogation program was going away. We all knew that.

[Dragonfli]

1. Yes hes endorsed those policies and now Democrats do as well I suppose, I must be an "unwelcome Dem"

I do know that the most of his loudest and proudest supporters here have taken to endorsing all of Obama's policies, strangely including those of Bush that they once (supposedly) opposed.
I searched a few of them and the pattern is a 180 from what they used to post about the very same policies, it makes you wonder if they were full of shit then, or now.

[Exilednight]

6. "it makes you wonder if they were full of shit then, or now." Both.

[Bluebear]

2. Change!!

[leftstreet]

3. A PBS documentary? Is this designed to make Obama look tough on terra?

Ugh. Campaign season suckz

[dgibby]

4. Sad, isn't it? n/t

[blm]

5. Some Dems fear being labeled as 'weak' - usually those who didn't serve in the military.

It shouldn't be that a president HAS to serve in the military, but, I think it would prevent the push for a 'strong image'.

Too bad for this nation.

[sabrina 1]

10. And that's what makes them weak. The fear that they will be viewed

that way. If they would just stand up for what's right and not worry about what the Far Right Loonies think of them, things might change. But despite 'acting tough' by endorsing illegal, inhumane wars and torture, the Right STILL views them as weak. So that didn't work.

What would really scare the warmongering cowards would be a true leader who stood up for principles and didn't 'give a shit' what the phony cowardly, chickenhawks on the Right thought about it. Slap them down each time they rear their cowardly heads like Limbaugh and Cheney and Bush, chickenhawks all, by asking them why they never served in a war they all supported. But no one has ever confronted them with that.

[coalition_unwilling]

13. What would really scare the warmondering cowards would be a

well-informed populace pressuring the Chief Executive to allow war crimes investigations and prosecutions (if warranted by the evidence) to proceed.

[blm]

15. exactly - when a Dem president 'moved past' treasonous crimes committed in IranContra/BCCI, it set

a course for rolling over that the Dem party has been unable to overcome.

[saras]

7. This is why I insist that Obama isn't a Democrat, or not a representative one...

...because, frankly, if I thought that Democratic party policy and principles supported torture, ever, under any circumstances, then I would have to abandon the party and work as hard against them as a whole as I do against the Republican party.

Beyond torture, and war for profit, there simply isn't any more evil that you can get. You can simply be bigger or smaller, and apply your evil to more or fewer people.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. What about the part in the article

where it talks about the notable exception of "enhanced interrogation techniques" (aka torture)? :shrug:

[Dragonfli]

9. That is simply outsourced (rendition) /nt

[Bluebear]

11. +

[coalition_unwilling]

14. Torture is as American as cherry pie (with apologies to H. Rap

Brown)

[The Northerner]

12. How depressing n/t

[bvar22]

16. Campaign Obama promised to Restore America's Honor.

Sounded great during the campaign.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-june-15-2010/respect-my-authoritah


You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

Solidarity!
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[lovuian]

17. I didn't vote for OBAMA to continue Bush's programs

he was suppose to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan and stop Guantanamo
and the Patriot Act

and then I see what happened with Manning
it just goes on and on

[Broderick]

19. I thought we were out of Iraq and Afghanistan

and Gitmo was closed. Who knew.

[upi402]

18. ibtl n/t