We do want someone in there who might actually enforce the law, rather than turn Justice Department in to a witch-hunter of Republicans – Newt Gingrich lays it out:
…Earlier this week, on the same day that the administration released a six-year-old report on terrorist interrogations, Holder announced he is appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the CIA officials who conducted the interrogations…
…Americans could be forgiven for believing, on the basis of shamefully twisted mainstream media coverage, that the recently revealed 2004 CIA Inspector-General report at the center of this controversy is merely a cataloging of CIA abuse.
But in fact, the report methodically described a carefully limited and, with a few exceptions, faithfully implemented program of enhanced interrogation techniques – techniques that yielded what the report itself deems valuable results.
The report also details the exceptions, cases in which interrogation techniques were used that were outside the carefully developed regime.
But here is the crucial fact for Holder: All of the allegations of unauthorized methods – all of them – have already been carefully evaluated by career prosecutors. These were legal officials who, unlike Holder, do not owe their jobs to any partisan political figure.
Impartial prosecutors evaluated 20 incidents of unauthorized activity and decided against taking legal action in all cases but one. In that one case, in which a contract employee attacked a terrorist detainee with a metal flashlight, the contractor was found guilty. His case was appealed and his conviction upheld.
In other words, justice was done. (emphasis added)
So, there is nothing to be looked in to – its already been done and the whole issue is finished. But, what if your desire, as a leftist, is to rake up the past, placate your base and take revenge upon those mean, old Republicans you slandered for 8 years? Then, you want a special prosecutor – someone who can fish for info, release biased information the MSM will run with, and time that information to come out at the most politically opportune time for Democrats (such as if some Congressman – Rangel, call your office – is under the gun, or the President’s poll numbers are taking another dive).
It is clear that Obama and his Democrats are determined to keep running against President Bush – so hate-filled have Democrats become that even basic rationality has been put aside. While there is some residual public anger over President Bush (undeserved or not), it doesn’t matter anything what happened 2001-09 in the day to day lives of Americans, right now, facing rising unemployment and a financial system playing economic roulette with what is left of the economy. All Holder will do here is make his side look vindictive – and Americans are generous and forgiving (heck, we’re forgiving Ted Kennedy, aren’t we?). This won’t sit well.
And yet, off they go. Whom the gods would destroy, they do make mad…
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