{"id":4601,"date":"2009-04-17T08:59:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T13:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4601"},"modified":"2009-04-17T08:59:12","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T13:59:12","slug":"its-hard-to-connect-the-dots-when-you-dont-know-where-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4601","title":{"rendered":"It’s Hard to Connect the Dots When You Don’t Know Where They Are"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday President Obama released Bush administration memos on terrorist interrogation techniques in the interest of transparency and with a blatant disregard for national security.<\/p>\n

Clearly, as unsavory as some of these techniques must be (I don’t want to know how sausage is made either) we have been kept safe here at home for some time since 9\/11 and there have been several foiled attempts at savagery on the part of terrorists in Western nations – without a doubt in part due to our more aggressive attempts to gather, intercept intelligence and connect the dots to protect our interests – and save lives.<\/p>\n

White House senior adviser David Axelrod says<\/a> President Barack Obama spent about a month pondering whether to release Bush-era memos about CIA interrogation techniques, and considered it \u201ca weighty decision.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whatever happened to when in doubt, keep your mouth shut – or in this case, keep the file cabinet locked. Whatta ya say Obammy that we err on the side of maintaining <\/em>national security, not eroding it? Is that too much to ask?<\/p>\n

What possible purpose could be served by advertising our most top-secret techniques for gleaning information that has probably saved lives?<\/p>\n

A former top official in the administration of President George W. Bush called the publication of the memos \u201cunbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s damaging because these are techniques that work, and by Obama’s action today, we are telling the terrorists what they are,\u201d the official said. \u201cWe have laid it all out for our enemies. This is totally unnecessary. \u2026 Publicizing the techniques does grave damage to our national security by ensuring they can never be used again \u2014 even in a ticking-time- bomb scenario where thousands or even millions of American lives are at stake.”<\/p>\n

\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This should come as no surprise to those of us who warned you that a man that “served” in public office for less than two years is not a suitable choice to lead this<\/em> nation. But disregard the Incompetence Theory\u2122<\/sup><\/strong> for now. Is it possible that Barack Obama holds his liberal agenda above all<\/em> else, without regard for the consequences to our nation or it’s people?<\/p>\n

Preposterous you say? Case in point: an $800 Billion stimulus package that will only raise our nation’s already untenable debt, devalue our dollar, and with no hope or precedent to show that such a plan has any hope of stimulating anything – save half our nation’s Hopey Changey dreams of a world without pain – or gain.<\/p>\n

Not to mention the fact that our economy is showing signs of stabilization – and without any assistance from the not-yet-implemented “stimulus.”<\/p>\n

And why release this now <\/em>– are all other issues solved? Does Obama know that we are now somehow immune from attack?<\/p>\n

Obama did not act on an arbitrary timeline. There was a deadline in a court case with the ACLU on Thursday. It had been extended, but the ACLU was not going to agree to another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah, the ACLU. Well at least now we know who’s in charge.<\/p>\n

Or, is this Barack Obtumor’s way of relieving the non-existent guilt of a nation not-sorry for having the audacity to protect it’s law-abiding citizens from being deep-fried in jet fuel in his or her 88th-floor office?<\/p>\n

No, it’s a sophomoric President force-feeding an ever-angering nation a far-far-left (we warned you) agenda that flies in the face of his promise of Change\u00ae<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

…and leaves us a little less safe than we were on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday President Obama released Bush administration memos on terrorist interrogation techniques in the interest of transparency and with a blatant disregard for national security. Clearly, as unsavory as some of these techniques must be (I don’t want to know how sausage is made either) we have been kept safe here at home for some time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,51,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama","category-liberal-tyranny","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}