Obama Signed Death Warrants... Bo Dietl‏

The following is from the GOPUSA newsletter. Sorry it's so long but it's worth the read.

"What would happen [Mr. Obama] if, God forbid, your two daughters were kidnapped by Al Qaeda?"

FOX News analyst, Bo Dietl demanded an answer to that hypothetical question because he'd like to know... in fact, we'd all like to know!

But let's take Dietl's hypothetical question a step further.

What would happen if we knew the men who staged the kidnapping were members of a world-wide ring of cutthroat terrorists and we had some of their ringleaders in custody?

What would happen if members of our intelligence community questioned these terrorists aggressively... deprived them of sleep, locked them up in a small dark room ... poured some water in their mouths for a few seconds - all in order to coerce them to divulge information that ACTUALLY SAVED THE LIVES of his precious daughters?

Do you believe, for one minute, that President Obama would look at these U.S. intelligence agents in utter disgust and say "Thank you for saving the lives of my girls but your tactics are never called for under any circumstances. And despite the fact that you were following orders from your superiors, the U.S. Government is going to release the details of everything you did for the whole world to see... then we might throw you in jail for doing your job."

Do you believe that Obama would retaliate against these U.S. interrogators by publishing photographs of them questioning the terrorists so that other members of this terrorist ring could then retaliate against these interrogators and their families?

Well guess what? THAT IS EFFECTIVELY WHAT BARACK OBAMA JUST DID when he chose to release classified legal memos detailing the interrogation techniques used on high value detainees in the aftermath of 9/11 - allowing the possibility of prosecution and certainty of persecution of those involved.

"Sick, disgusting and intolerable" don't even begin to describe Obama's actions.

Obama and liberals in Congress and the media are definitely crossing the line.

Initially, when the liberals in Congress started making ridiculous accusations, Obama said he wanted to look forward... that he thought we should move on.

Then Obama flip-flopped and authorized the SELECTIVE release of top secret memos... memos and photographs which detail the interrogation techniques that were used on hardened terrorists to uncover plots to kill innocent Americans!

Scrambling to straddle the fence, Team Obama immediately staged a media circus at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Obama"reassured" a crowd of FBI employees:

"This is a tough business, but it is essential to protecting our country. Because in the end, it's your hard work that makes the difference -- your decisions, your analysis, your action. Because of you, the men and women of the FBI, the American people are safer and our country is stronger."

And while Obama ran for cover, the B team went to work. The other shoe dropped when The New York Times hit us with this bombshell:

"Liberal Democrats on Capitol Hill, including some of its most powerful members, are pressing for the impeachment of a federal judge over the Bush Administration's 'torture memos,' an aggressive move President Obama has no official power to stop."

"No official power to stop?"

Give me a break.

Obama authorizes the release of memos and photographs of interrogation techniques that places the lives of U.S. intelligence operatives and the lives of their families in imminent danger.

Or as Dietl put it; "You [Obama] just signed... possibly... death warrants for these guys."

Then, when Congressional liberals and the Leftist media picked up the ball, Obama essentially threw his hands up in the air and said: Hey, this isn't my fault... I'm powerless to stop this... this blood is not on my hands.

This isn't even politics-as-usual; this is the sick stuff of tyrannical third-world dictatorships. It's a nightmare straight out of George Orwell's 1984.

Only the American people can put an end to this absurd foolishness and we must put a stop to it now.

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.

Eight months after President George W. Bush took office, America was brutally attacked by a network of Islamic terrorist-fanatics. Nearly 3,000 innocent Americans perished.

We didn't see it coming because our capacity to gather intelligence, in part, had been emasculated during the Clinton years.

We did know, however, that more brutal attacks WERE coming... we knew that more Americans WOULD die at the hand of a fanatical enemy that lusted for the blood of Americans... and we had no way of finding out when or where!

Our only sources of intelligence were the blood-thirsty terrorists that we had captured on the battlefield.

We knew we had to take off the gloves, but we also knew that we could only go so far because the United States DOES NOT TORTURE PEOPLE. We don't break bones... we don't starve human beings or deprive them of medical treatment and simply allow them to die... we don't video-tape beheadings for the world to watch.

And here's the kicker, we were so concerned about crossing the line that people were specifically tasked with making very difficult and often subjective decisions as to how far our people could go during interrogations.

We actually handcuffed our own people for the sake of our higher ideals.

But that's not all. According to former Vice President Dick Cheney, these aggressive interrogation techniques actually WORKED:

"One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this recent disclosure is they put out the legal memos, the memos that the CIA got from the Office of Legal Counsel, but they didn't put out the memos that showed the success of the effort... . And there are reports that show specifically what we gained as a result of this activity. They have not been declassified."

Dietl again:

"They interrogated some of the worse criminals on earth... and they got information that stopped a lot of terrorist attacks."

You don't ruin people... put their lives in danger... put their families in harm's way as a reward for doing the impossible.

The Hypocrisy Continues...

But we just didn't handcuff our own people.

We were so concerned about crossing the line that Members of Congress were fully briefed on exactly what our intelligence people were doing... even Nancy Pelosi.

But wait a minute; Pelosi recently has been huffing and puffing the loudest. She protested, like Sgt. Schultz from the old television series Hogan's Heroes, that she knew nothing.

Not according to The Nation:

"Now, however, comes the news that Pelosi knew as early as 2002... and, far from objecting, appears to have cheered the tactics on."

It's pretty bad when a publication as liberal as The Nation calls out another liberal, but Pelosi wasn't the only one giving the thumbs-up. According to the same article, no one objected and two Members of Congress wanted to know if our interrogation techniques (yes, even water-boarding) "were tough enough."

Hypocrisy, thy name is Pelosi.

Suzanne Miller, writing for The Boston Herald perhaps said it better:

"Talk about torturing people, it is sheer torture to keep hearing the lies and vengeance cravings from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.... The third in line for the presidency (God help us) speaker seems to think it is OK to lie about the so-called torture of terrorists during the Bush administration, saying she did not know about it. What a joke, of course she did and it can be proven!"

So... is anyone on the left calling for Pelosi to be dragged in front of a federal grand jury?

Of course not. And why not?

The New York Times, inadvertently, may have given us the answer.

In its apparent glee to lead The Charge of the Left Brigade, The Times ominously warned that "this cannot be the end of the scrutiny" and demanded that the "investigation should START with the lawyers" who authored the memos. [Emphasis Mine]

"Start?"

What did The Times mean by "start?"

Several paragraphs later, The Times let it all hang out.

"If that means putting Donald Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales on the stand, even Dick Cheney, we are sure Americans can handle it."

In its zeal, The Times let the cat out of the bag.

The radical left wants to start at the bottom and work all the way up the chain. The radical left wants to go after EVERYBODY!

And here's the sickest part.

The people who Pelosi and company are going to step on as they claw their way to the top are the patriotic Americans who specifically PREVENTED THE ACTUAL TORTURE OF TERRORIST DETAINEES. They are the pawns in this cruel game of ruining political enemies who may wind up losing everything -- possibly even their lives - for the unpardonable sin of serving and protecting their country!