A Betrayal that Contributes to the deterioration in US Security

The Get-Cheney Squad

by  Patrick J. Buchanan

08/28/2009

“Men sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

George Orwell’s truth comes to mind as one reads that Eric Holder has named a special prosecutor to go after the “rough men” who, to keep us sleeping peacefully at night, went too far in frightening Khalid Sheik Muhammad, the engineer of the September massacres.

Yet, it seems now indisputable that those CIA interrogators, with their rough methods, got vital intelligence that saved American lives, as Dick Cheney has consistently contended.

According to The Washington Times, which reviewed the newly declassified CIA documents, those interrogators “produced life-saving intelligence that disrupted numerous terrorist plots.”

They elicited the names of al-Qaida agents who planned anthrax attacks on Westerners and a massive bombing of Camp Lemonier, the U.S. base in East Africa. They got the names of 70 recruits al-Qaida deemed “suitable for Western attacks” and of the men who made the bomb used on the U.S. consulate in Karachi.

Iyman Faris, an al-Qaeda sleeper agent and truck driver in Ohio, is serving 20 years because of information the CIA got from KSM and associates. Other operations aborted include al-Qaida “plots to fly airliners into buildings on the West Coast, setting off bombs in U.S. cities and planning to employ a network of Pakistanis to target gas stations, railroad tracks and the Brooklyn Bridge.”

What were the “inhumane” techniques CIA interrogators used to uncover these plans for the mass murder of Americans?

“Interrogators lifted one detainee off the floor by his arms, while they were bound behind his back with a belt,” reports The Washington Post. “Another interrogator used a stiff brush to clean a detainee, scrubbing so roughly that his legs were raw with abrasions. Another squeezed a detainee’s neck at his carotid artery until he began to pass out.”

The CIA, we are told, used mock executions to frighten captives and threatened to kill KSM’s children and rape his mother. Power drills were brandished in interrogation rooms.

Were any children killed? No. Was anyone’s mother raped? No. Was the power drill used? No.

Was anyone executed in front of a witness to make him talk? No. It was faked, as Sean Connery faked it in “The Untouchables” to get an underling to blab to Eliot Ness, aka Kevin Costner, about how he could take down Al Capone’s mob.

As for threatening to kill the children of our enemies, we did not do that in “The Good War.” Instead, what we did was kill them in the thousands every night in air raids over Germany and Japan.

In the Tokyo firestorm of February 1945, the Dresden raid in March, and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August, we killed grandparents, mothers, fathers, wives, sisters, daughters and sons of the enemy in the scores of thousands on each of those days.

Can it be that the same United States that honored Col. Paul Tibbets and put his Enola Gay, which dropped the bomb on Hiroshima, on display in its Air and Space Museum is going to prosecute a CIA agent for faking an execution and threatening, but never intending, to kill the children of Khalid Sheik Muhammad?

Why is Barack Obama allowing these prosecutions to proceed?

In 2004, career lawyers at Justice looked over the same reports and concluded that prosecutions would not serve the national interest. Obama has himself said he wants to move on.

Now, he and Holder may not like what was done back then, but who does? And where is the criminal intent? These agents are not sadists. They were trying to get intel to abort plots and apprehend terrorists to prevent them from killing us. And they succeeded. Not a single terrorist attack on the United States in eight years.

Do we the people, some of whom may be alive because of what those CIA men did, want them disgraced, prosecuted and punished for not going strictly by the book in protecting us from terrorists?

In its lead editorial Tuesday, “Following the Torture Trail,” The Washington Post declaims, “The real culprits in this sordid story are the higher-ups, starting with former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Richard Cheney who led America down the degraded path of state-sponsored torture.”

But why is Obama yielding to the clamor of a left that will not be satiated until Cheney and Bush are indicted as Class A war criminals? Is that in the national interest? Is it in Obama’s interest to tear his country apart to expose and punish these CIA agents?

In the 1960s, Robert Kennedy and the boys at Justice set up a “Get Hoffa Squad” to take down Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. It was a vendetta that succeeded.

This vendetta will not. For, on the issue of national security, as Barack will painfully discover, he is not more trusted than Dick Cheney or the rough men at the CIA who did the harsh interrogations of terrorists, to keep us sleeping peacefully at night.

THIS IS THE TRUE ISLAM

I have been studying Islam indepth now since the attacks of 9/11. I have learned the truth and I am trying to share it with you so at the very least, you might be persuaded to find out the truth for yourselves, rather than simply blindly believing Muslim propaganda. I am convinced that most so called moderate muslims don’t even know that their religion actually teaches that converts must be killed or that all people who believe something other than Islam are lower humans, infidels and not worthy of the same treatment as true believers.

This poor 17 year-old girl’s story is far to familiar to those of us who have been paying attention to what is going on in the world today. There are also two teenage girls, and a father and his teenage daughter, in Egypt who ar eundergoing even harsher andmore imminent threats ot their lives. In this video, in response to a question from the interviewer about why she is afraid, Rifqa explains that Americans simply do not understand Islam and that her family really has no choice, they simply must kill her. She refers to the case of Amina and Sarah Said (Sah-eed), who were killed by their father in Texas after they had fled for their lives. They were persuaded, by their aunt, to return home. The aunt told them that their father had told her that he would not carry out the honor killings. The aunt was successful and when the young teenagers returned home they were forced into their father’s taxi cab. He drove them to a secluded place where he shot them. There is a 911 recording where one of the girls is pleading for help saying that her father shot her sister and is now going to kill her.

Rifqa’s fears are well founded. There are apparently over 100 of documented cases in the US of these honor killings.

This is not the America in which I was raised. If we want to leave a free America to our children and grandchildren, we must actively resist the encroaching sharia. We can not look to this administration to take the lead, for obvious reasons. Thank goodness Governor Christ, of Florida, has the courage to come to this young girl’s aid and block her return to Ohio until the full story can come out. Her next hearing will be held in early September.

Please watch this video. She is a sweet girl who just wants to worship freely in the most free country on the face of the earth.

Rifqa Bary Interview

BIG BROTHER IS HERE – OUR “DEAR LEADER”

While the nation’s attention is rightly focused on the health care battle and the new orders from the administration that SEIU and ACCORN thugs are to intimidate, shout down and violently subdue the “Tea-Party Patriots” , there is another omnious movement by the administration to further usurp your rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

They are going to do away with the protection against ilegal search and siezure. Please view this entire video and then pass it around.

We had better wake up or all will be lost. Have courage!