The NRO’s Jonathan Adler remarked on The Corner last Saturday morning:
"Let's see now. Deficit projections are once again on the rise as Obama's approval rating falls. Health-care reform is faltering, climate-change legislation is stalled, and David Axlerod is under fire for his conflicts of interest. Seems like a good time to change the subject. Contents of the CIA inspector general's report on harsh interrogation methods have already leaked, so it won't do the trick. If I were a betting man, I'd expect something else to drop Monday or Tuesday."
We didn’t have to wait long at all – Attorney General Holder has announced that he is appointing a prosecutor to Investigate CIA terror interrogations.
Just the thing to whip up the gloomy party faithful into a Bushitler frenzy.
Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton today stated that the Attorney General is to be left entirely to his own devices, unfettered, and uninfluenced by the President in regards to investigated CIA interrogators. Also, he stated that those who carried out APPROVED techniques are to be left unharmed by the investigation.
ReplyDeleteWill the President stand by this?
Only time will tell. My guess is: very likely.
Because- during the election a hot-button topic was holding the previous administration accountable. He plainly stated, and continues to do so, that he would rather "focus on the path ahead." To focus on the past would be politically injurious because the reality is (and thank the Lord) the hard-line, lunatic lefties are just not that populus. Most everyone DOES want to look ahead rather than behind and to not do so would alienate the precious independents and would just be hard to explain, even for Robert Gibbs.
Will the President stand by this?
ReplyDeleteROFLMAO
I know, I know. It sounds preposterous. Yet, there are so many better policies for him to roll-over and flip-flop on.
ReplyDeleteJust to re-state my assertion...
It's my guess that from HERE ON Our most beloved president will not interfere with, hinder, guide, or otherwise influence the Attorney General. In public.
This does nothing to say that the Atty Gen was appointed by the president and was surely vetted for his views, etc.