In watching Senator Bond lose a gasket over the fact that the White House released data about the information gleaned from the Christmas day wannabe bomber and how they used his family and a visit with them to get Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab’s to start talking and keep talking, and they used this information to make arrests and to set up operations in Yemen to attack the group that sent Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab’s in motion back in December.
Mr Bond seems to think the President should have kept this information "secret" since it had just been briefed as required by law to the gang of 4 the Democratic and republican leaders of the House and Senate Intelligence committee. The problem with Mr Bonds contention is that as the President Mr Obama has the right to declassify anything at any time just as any other President does and has, ala George W Bush and Valerie Plame. Anything else Dick Cheney needed declassified to make his case on Sunday news shows about Iraq, and any other perceived enemy of the Bush Administration.
In the article shown Bond to Obama: Keep secrets secret
"The release of this sensitive information has no doubt been helpful to his terrorist cohorts around the world," the Republican senator said in a letter sent to Mr. Obama. "The American people rightfully expect the government’s first priority to be their security."
The Missouri lawmaker suggested politics trumped security. The White House has countered that congressional Republicans are the ones playing politics.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said Wednesday, "Nothing came out last night that compromises any of the investigations or any of the interrogations that are currently ongoing. We feel like we pursued the correct course in interrogating Abdulmutallab ..."
Given the Republican comments over the way the Obama Administration has handled this case, who could dare accuse them of playing politics with it, three days later Pete Hoekstra used it to raise money for his campaign for Governor of Michigan.
Any Republican on any news show has complained that Umar Farouq Abdulmutallab’s was not sent to Gitmo for the water treatment and the free housing available for guests of the US. That the Obama Administration has not taken American security seriously, while the rat pack was running their mouths, AG Holder used the FBI and their other intelligence contacts into action in bringing the family here to persuade Umar to work with the US in stopping the real terrorists, the people in Yemen, Al Qaeda etc.
A|ll within the rule of law, no question about needing to water board him 83 times or more that doesn't work to get real intelligence, which Republicans refuse to admit, and which none of it would be admissable in a Federal Court anyway, and even a Military Tribunal would have a hard time admitting unlawfully obtained evidence, I was in the Army and even Military tribunals have rules similar to court martials, they have rules, you can't do just what ever you want to and call it legal. That is one of the reasons the Supreme Court has told them to fix the rules more than once already.
I spent from 1973 thru the First Gulf War serving this nation in an Army uniform, I spent many nights in the cold, getting rained on, snowed on, getting shot at, crawling on my stomach, because I wanted to stay alive and because I believe in the United States of America, I use to think we were better than other nations, that we played by the rules, the Geneva Convention, the Nuremberg Codes of 1947, treaties that we signed etc,
Old age has taught me differently, the lawsuit against the Army, DOD and the CIA because they abused me and 7119 other enlisted men between 1955 thru 1975 Vietnam Veterans of America, et al. v. Central Intelligence Agency, et al. they lied to us, the Chain of Command was supposed to protect us, they lied to us, and now here we are in 2010 having to take them to Federal Court just to make them tell the truth about what happened to us 35-55 years ago, why?
Of the 7120 men 75% are dead and disabled and we have to force the government in court to tell us the truth and to try and make them keep the "PROMISE" made to all military personnel, which states if you are killed or harmed while in service a grateful nation will care for you. BS they will spend the rest of your life lying to you about what happened to you and your friends, they will lie to you, lie about you and then tell you that you are mental.
Senator Bonds why don't you and your Republican friends sit down and shut the fluck up, I don't trust you, nor do I believe you, you have failed me and my Cold War veterans, we have asked Congress for help for decades, and now we have to sue you the nation to do the right thing, go to hell you and all of your long serving elected officials that have ignored these veterans, you don't care about us the people of the US, you care about your job in Congress and that is all.
Take your pedestal and bust it because we have