Which kinda makes me wonder why the Obama White House is so eager for Senator Feinstein to release it:
Foreign governments and U.S. intelligence agencies are predicting that the release of a Senate report examining the use of torture by the CIA will cause "violence and deaths" abroad, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said Sunday.
Representative Mike Rogers, Michigan-8 Republican, is regularly briefed on intelligence assessments. He told CNN's "State of the Union" that U.S. intelligence agencies and foreign governments have said privately that the release of the report on CIA interrogations a decade ago will be used by extremists to incite violence that is likely to cost lives. The 480-page report, a summary of a still-classified 6,000 page study, is expected to be made public next week.
Even Commissar of State John Kerry urged his former Senate colleague to "consider the timing" of the release of this smear-job jihadist recruitment propaganda, which I interpret to mean, "ISIS and al Qaeda are kidnapping Americans as decapitation fodder at an alarming pace, and releasing this incendiarily dishonest 'report' might accelerate the beheading process."
So let's tally that up: the House Intelligence Committee, American as well as allied intelligence agencies, and even Mr. French himself are saying, with growing alarm, that releasing this "report" mislabeling coercive interrogations as "torture" - which, even if it had been "torture," would have been permissible under international law because jihadists are "illegal enemy combatants," and regardless, this was over a decade ago in a war Barack Obama has already forfeited - is a very, very bad idea that could douse Barack Obama's hands with (even more) innocent blood.
But, no matter, the Obama Regime wants the report disclosed and obligingly splattered all over Obamedia front pages and TV news ledes, and that's what it's going to get.
That brings us back to the question of: why? This is PR ground that was overplowed years ago. And the reason it was overplowed then was to destroy President Bush and use his pariah-hood to eradicate the GOP "brand" in the runup to the 2008 presidential campaign. Which was an unqualified success, and paved the way for the past six disastrous years, and the effective death of the Old American Republic.
So, again, why release this "report" at all, and why now? Nostalgia? To create another distraction from O's phony war against ISIS? To further destabilize the Middle East (if that's even possible anymore), or help provoke another mass-casualty jihadist attack here that would provide another pretext for declaring martial law? Or simply their insatiable Ameriphobia - in essence, "Just because"? It's not as though the argument is any more substantive now than it was during the Bush years. Sleep deprivation, confinement in small spaces, humiliation and simulated drowning (waterboarding) aren't "torture," just as they are necessary to gain what is the coin of the counter-terrorism realm: timely, actionable intelligence. This is a conflict in which, to a very great and very real extent, the choice is between the comfort of captured jihadists and the lives of hundreds, thousands, or perhaps millions, of innocent civilians. An American president ought not have to think about that choice.
Even the Holder Commissariat of Injustice, Revenge & Coverup investigated the bogus charges in this "report" and, tellingly, never filed any criminal charges. And this compendium has been classified for over a decade as it is. And we all know why.
But we also know that Barack Obama is not an American president, and that he knows the release of this boon to Islamic Fundamentalism will further damage the country he both hates and rules with an iron fist. And, as a bonus, strengthen his jihadist friends.
So that's why.
If any of you have a better, and serious, explanation, feel free to leave it in the comments.
UPDATE: Michael Hayden beat y'all to it. His conclusion: The One is out to destroy the CIA:
Money quote: "The final outcome of this report is going to be an American espionage service that is timid and friendless and that really is a danger to the U.S."
Just what the enemy within ordered, it seems to me.
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