Posted by
Boris Tiraspolsky on Saturday, April 18, 2009 1:52:49 AM
"In this war against Jihad, America must decide if it can continue to tolerate the price of ignorance, or if instead it is willing to make the investment in strategic war planning, communication, clear identification of the enemy and its threats, and unified purpose necessary to defeat its enemies." - Jeffrey Imm
President Barack Obama released Bush-era memos about CIA interrogation techniques.
White House senior adviser David Axelrod said: “He [president Obama] thought very long and hard about it, consulted widely, because there were two principles at stake. One is … the sanctity of covert operations … and keeping faith with the people who do them, and the impact on national security, on the one hand. And the other was the law and his belief in transparency.
The president consulted officials from the Justice Department, the CIA, the director of National Intelligence and the Homeland Security Department. It was a weighty decision. As with so many issues, there are competing points of view that flow from very genuine interests and concerns that are to be respected. And then the president has to synthesize all of it and make a decision that’s in the broad national interest. He’s been thinking about this for four weeks, really.”
Comment by a former top official in the administration of President George W. Bush: “It is unbelievable! It's damaging because these are techniques that work, and by Obama's action today, we are telling the terrorists what they are. We have laid it all out for our enemies. This is totally unnecessary. … Publicizing the techniques does grave damage to our national security by ensuring they can never be used again — even in a ticking-time- bomb scenario where thousands or even millions of American lives are at stake.
I don't believe Obama would intentionally endanger the nation, so it must be that he thinks either 1. the previous administration, including the CIA professionals who have defended this program, is lying about its importance and effectiveness, or 2. he believes we are no longer really at war and no longer face the kind of grave threat to our national security this program has protected against.”
Comment by Boris Tiraspolsky: "We shall witness new terrorist attacks against the Unites States both, domestically and abroad, because terrorists never stop their sinister actions by themselves. We shall witness new terrorist attacks, because terrorists never satisfied with what they already accomplished. We shall witness new terrorist attacks, because terrorists see an ambiguity of our political elites reflecting anti-terrorist ideological immaturity of own constituencies, and therefore, incapable of decisively combating Terrorism and stopping terrorists from attacking the Nation." -
Could We Be Defeated in Modern Terrorist Warfare?