Obama Signals His Reluctance to Look Into Bush Policies

[acmavm]

“And part of my job,” he continued, “is to make sure that, for example, at the C.I.A., you’ve got extraordinarily talented people who are working very hard to keep Americans safe. I don’t want them to suddenly feel like they’ve got spend their all their time looking over their shoulders.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/12/us/politics/12inquire.html

Bwahahahahahah! This guy is just so PREDICTABLE.

He'd rather have us spending all out time looking over OUR shoulders.

P.S. If this was posted somewhere else I either couldn't find it or didn't look hard enough.

[Triana]

1. "He'd rather have us spending all out time looking over OUR shoulders"

Guess so.

:mad:

[PFunk]

2. (sigh) somehow I was expecting this.

If Obama keeps going in this direction then the dems may get a nasty surprise in the 2010 elections (and not a good one either).

[babylonsister]

3. You didn't look, or watch Snagglepus yesterday. But you found

what you wanted. Good job.

What would be an unpredictable response-firing the whole lot of them and hiring novices? Since I've never worked for the CIA, I don't know. I guess experience doesn't matter.

[acmavm]

4. I found what I wanted? Says who? You?

I'd rather never having seen this garbage at all.

This isn't me dear. This is your idol.

edit: Just to say that don't you think I all remember any and all the posts that you joined in hoping that once these clowns were over out and gone, they'd get the punishment they deserved?

[babylonsister]

6. My idol? Not quite. And I noticed you conveniently skipped over

the novice vs. experience question. So, who would you prefer since the CIA isn't going away?

As for predictable, you're trying to make that an insult. I'm trying to show you how logical it is.

:hi:

[acmavm]

7. What the fuck novice vs. experience bullshit do you mean. Where

we have green CIA operatives who aren't quite up to snuff in their intelligence-cooking skills or are still a little clumsy in their efforts to spy on American citizens? Or the ones that are really good at it? That's all the novice vs. experience shit that matters here.

Obama is thinking abut protecting the killers of over a million innocent civilians. Obama is thinking about covering for the people who killed over 4500 Americans. His is thinking about letting slide torturers, people who shamed and disgraced us in front of the world. He's thinking about covering for the people who outed a CIA agent. He's also going back on his campaign promise (but he's proven to be pretty damn good at that).

Regardless, he has no right not to investigate.

[babylonsister]

9. Did you miss this?

Calm down. No one knows what will be done yet, and your knee-jerk reaction doesn't help you or anyone else.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8078939&mesg_id=8078939

[acmavm]

11. Calm down? No. You decide what upsets you and I'll handle my

own concerns, thank you.

We've gone through 8 years of absolute misery because Clinton decided to 'move forward' (code words for aiding and abetting after the fact as far as I'm concerned).

[babylonsister]

12. Then don't, but don't forget your b.p. meds, and have a nice day. nt

[acmavm]

13. You've let that 'appreciation thread' go to your head.

And you have a nice one yourself.

[babylonsister]

15. Huh? This is a discussion board. Think what you will, but I have

just as much of a right to an opinion as you do. Sorry if that's so disagreeable to you.

[acmavm]

17. YOU'RE the one trying to stifle MY opinion.

Sheesh.

[bdamomma]

5. if another country starts looking into the crimes of the Bush administration

how will this Obama administration handle it?

[John Q. Citizen]

19. That is a good question.

[fasttense]

8. Just because Obama is Not going on a witch hunt in the CIA, doesn't mean

he has washed his hands of holding the Torture Zars to account.

Do you honestly believe the CIA went off on their own and started torturing prisoners one day because it got their rocks off? They did it because the bush gang wanted it. The bush and dick have admitted as much on TV interviews.

You have to cut off the head of a snake to keep it from biting you.

[ecstatic]

10. He can't do it alone! It will take cooperation between Pelosi, Reid, & the MSM

Without their cooperation, President Obama cannot do it. Obama's job is to run the country as it is now. He is not a prosecutor.

[acmavm]

14. ***snark***

Tell it to someone too stupid to know better.

[ecstatic]

26. so he can do it without the media/Pelosi/Reid's cooperation?

:shrug:

[bvar22]

21. Pelosi is a co-conspirator.

She was made aware (attended a secret briefing) of Bush's plans, and offered no objections.
Pelosi and other high ranking Democrats will obstruct any real investigation.

[bottomtheweaver]

16. Guess who lobbied a reluctant Truman to sign off on a peace-time spy outfit?

You got it, Prescott Bush, among others. This from a radio interview with Russ Baker, author of "Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces that Put it in the White House, and what Their Influence Means for America" (Bloomsbury Press, 2008).

The CIA and the rest of the spy apparatus (16 agencies and that probably means 32) have to go.

[acmavm]

18. Now isn't that interesting? America has a history of presidents

subverting the Constitution.

The things they don't teach you in school.

[Kolesar]

20. Yeah. This was posted "somewhere else" and it flamed out yesterday

NYTimes story is the same as: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3684995

[walldude]

22. Well he's not reluctant to continue and expand on those policies.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8081884

I'm wondering what happened to the guy I voted for. He's got to be around here somewhere.

[Thrill]

23. You may want to actually wait until the guy is sworn

in and does something. Instead of reading opinion pieces with no evidence

[dionysus]

25. how DARE you not irrationally flip out over everything obama does (even if he's not in office yet)

:thumbsup:

[dionysus]

24. ah, your daily temper tantrum. wahhhhh

:eyes:

are you so used to being against the current administration that you're ready to toss our guy under the bus before he even gets sworn in? or do you constantly have to bitch about something?

banky will make it allll better;