Posted by
EWRoss on Monday, August 31, 2009 8:00:00 AM
Amidst
the heated ongoing national debate over healthcare reform, the Obama
administration last week took aim at the CIA and pulled the trigger. Attorney
General Eric Holder
appointed a special prosecutor to review cases involving CIA contractors; and
President Obama relieved the CIA of responsibility for high-value detainee
interrogations and gave it to a multi-agency task force reporting to the
National Security Council (NSC). In doing so, they seriously wounded the Agency
and reenergized the national debate over how it interrogated high-value
terrorists after 9/11. If this is about America’s moral compass, as the
president has often phrased it, is he and are we reading it correctly?
Read the full column at http://ewross.com/Americas_Moral_Compass.htm