An Instapundit reader thinks so.
“A senior administration official told The Associated Press Monday that Obama has approved establishment of the new unit, to be known as the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, which will be overseen by the National Security Council. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the program has not yet been officially announced.”
Reader Randy Tollefson writes: “Does this mean Obama now has a Torture Czar?” I’m sure it doesn’t. The United States doesn’t torture.
Hopeandchange, folks. Hopeandchange.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
The public option must really be in trouble, if they try to change the conversation with this tripe.
With the latest round of attacks, I understand that 2009 is now the deadlist year of the entire Afgan campaign. And this administration want to hamstring counter-intelligence as a domestic sop. The mind boggles.
Best wishes,
-MFS
In January, Eric Holder lied to Republicans and claimed he wouldn’t prosecute CIA operatives. Lying seems to be the modus operandi of the Obama Regime.
Next Question: Will there be a Circumcision Czar?
How many people in the apparatchik class do each of the czar’s support? Do they house them in EOB? In reality, do the Congressionally approved bureaucrats report to the czars? If a czar sends an apparatchik over to the State Department, does State bend over?
VtheK, will the circumcision czar be the final straw that gets Sully over his love affair with the One?
Leah,
That would just address the tip of Sully’s problems. It might start a brisk discussion though. Though now instead of cash for clunkers we have Money for mohelim.
I am sure Sully will find a way to rationalize it.
That would just address the tip of Sully’s problems.
As Pete says: “Heh”.
Didn’t Chairman Obama tell the CIA that he wouldn’t spank them?
No, with liberal rule, the only thing that’s tortured is logic.
Livewire:
*groan*
Or, Sully may react like this. (Just like he did when Bush signed onto the FMA).
So threatening death is not allowed…
Threatening to kill a family is not allowed…
Holding a drill near some one not allowed…
Making the bad guys uncomfortable is not allowed…
So What exactly is this czar going o manage? Is he the one who decides how stale the bagels are allowed to become before they become war crimes? Does he determine if making the prisoners listen to NPR count as recreation time (that may be a contravention of the human rights commission)?
You know personally I would rather some one threaten to kill me or put a drill near my than actually kill me or stick a drill in my appendages… I wonder how many prisoners in Iran BEG GOD they were being held in US custody instead?
‘Torture Czar’ is redundant.
Get … the comfy chair!!!
“Our chief weapons are surprise! That’s all, just surprise!”
There are a great many people running the Obama administration….Barack Obama is none of them!
Obama needs 36 Czars precisely because he is not qualified to be president!
I find the irony hilarious that after 8 years of charging that Bush was a puppet, the left has gone and elected the biggest puppet of them all.
Rather you like him or not, Bill O’Reilly has it right; “this administration is in a leadership crisis.”
Sadly, Stone K has made a very good point. If any of you are continuing to follow news out of Iran, it is of the most harrowing kind. The last story that I read was about the rape of a 15 year old boy, many times over…. he has horrific injuries. His crime? Wearing green finger paint….
What that boy endured, what that young woman whose charred body was dumped on the side of the road endured, was total torture. It is real torture… not the namby pamby make them uncomfortable stuff….
The liberal members of USA society need to discover the truth instead of doing everything that they can to destroy the security of the USA from within…..
I am not a USA citizen and I feel very passionately about this subject. I do not believe any of those things were real torture.
USA has no leadership at the moment. The clown occupying the White House is not a leader… and I could say a lot more about how he has lied about his “qualifications” for the top office… like pretending he is a university professor and teaching Constitutional law when he was only a mere lecturer who taught community organization. It is just not the same as Constitutional law……
Exactly HOW MANY unvetted, underqualified, not US Senate-confirmed “czars” now populate the basements of the White House and the massive Executive Office Building? Ten? ….Twenty? …Twenty-five?
And as “advisors to the President” they are basically immune from Senate nor House subpoena, oversight nor any accountable ladder of authority besides Presidential favor. This is the open, accountable government of the “Change” administration…all the while criticizing the prior President Bush administration for doing much less….
As for the “Torture Report” and the stale bagels, Mao wisely reflected the “…revolution is not a dinner party”. And our enemies aren’t playing by any set of rules for polite society, nor the Rules of War. If it’s effective, use it…if not, don’t play into the hands of the enemy. And constant re-assess who the is is and is not.
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