Posted by
onlinebenny on Friday, April 24, 2009 1:16:19 PM
It's not enough that he hates America. No. It's not enough to go around apologizing wherever there is a microphone for the sins of this country -- the list of sins continues to grow bigger. But to have an elected President releasing national security secrets is simply unconscionable. And that is exactly what these legal opinions released by Obama are. The feeding frenzy of the media is only a sideshow. Only the extreme left really cares about this so-called torture and that's why the "torture" stories haven't helped increase the circulation of the NY TImes or other newspapers.
But that's a sideshow. And the show trials coming up -- those will be sideshows too. The sensitive national security information which this administration so cavalierly releases to the press (they don't even bother with leaking the info, they simply print it up) signals any enemy, actual or potential, that our most precious national secrets are for sale by an administration seeking nothing more than fleeting political gain in exchange for the information. It's absolutely sickening. Unfortunately, I don't think that a President can actually be charged and tried for treason.
Worse still, Republicans will one day be elected to clean up yet another mess of Jimmy Carter proportions. Those Republicans will do the responsible thing and not act like current Democrats in criminalizing politics by going after former administration officials who acted in good faith. Yet, they will get no kudos for doing the right thing and will face the same witch hunt when the next Democrat gets elected.