Let's call Pres BO's bluff.
Let's have a public investigation.
My guess is that Pres BO is smart enough to know this:
1) This investigation will poison the political well;
2) It will hurt the CIA's morale. Just read How Obama's Decision Hurt the CIA By David Ignatius!
3) Information will be released that confirms that the tactics worked;
and worst of all,
4) Obama will own the next attack.
He will own it 100% and see his presidency reduced to counting down the days until January 2013.
We should add that memos confirm that Dems were present in the meeting.
"According to The Politico, Senate Democrats were updated 30 different times on waterboarding and other interrogation techniques.Speaker Pelosi also was one of 4 members of Congress who were briefed on waterboarding and never complained once at the time:
The Washington Post reported that in 2002 four members of Congress were given a virtual tour of the CIA’s overseas detention sites and were briefed on interrogation techniques.
The bipartisan group, which included Pelosi, was specifically briefed on waterboarding.
None of the four complained, and one of them asked if the methods being used were tough enough.
The CIA gave key legislative overseers about 30 private briefings, including waterboarding and other interrogation techniques in 2002 and 2003.
It is curious that lawmakers who were repeatedly briefed and raised no objections should subsequently criticize those very same policies."
Again, I don't believe that Pres BO is stupid enough to go through with it. At the same time, he is under a lot of pressure from the people who got him nominated a year ago.
