Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The Politics of Liberal Amnesia - WSJ.com
Politicians are just SO bad.
I doubt that there is any aspect of a career politicians life that is not centered on political expediency.
They will say and do anything based on the need of the day, which includes Nancy Pelosi's apparent forgetfulness...
I doubt that there is any aspect of a career politicians life that is not centered on political expediency.
They will say and do anything based on the need of the day, which includes Nancy Pelosi's apparent forgetfulness...
In the Wall Street Journal, Bret Stephens writes about the issue:
"Or maybe the speaker missed what former CIA Director (and Bill Clinton appointee) George Tenet writes in his memoir, 'At the Center of the Storm,' about the CIA interrogation of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed:
'I believe none of these successes [in foiling terrorist plots] would have happened if we had had to treat KSM like a white-collar criminal -- read him his Miranda rights and get him a lawyer who surely would have insisted his client simply shut up. In his initial interrogation by CIA officers, KSM was defiant. 'I'll talk to you guys,' he said, 'after I get to New York and see my lawyer.' Apparently he thought he would be immediately shipped to the United States and indicted in the Southern District of New York. Had that happened, I am confident that we would have obtained none of the information he had in his head about imminent threats to the American people.'
Mr. Tenet continues: 'From our interrogation of KSM and other senior al Qaeda members . . . we learned many things -- not just tactical information leading to the next capture. For example, more than 20 plots had been put in motion by al Qaeda against U.S. infrastructure targets, including communications nodes, nuclear power plants, dams, bridges and tunnels.'"
