Currently, there is a lot of furor in the media over Eric Holden’s decision to pursue the investigation of alleged prisoner abuse by CIA agents during the Bush Administration. However, I believe there is an even more sinister meaning for this move.
The Obama Administration is gradually bypassing all the checks and balances in our government (not to mention ignoring the Constitution). He is appointing czars, rather than Cabinet Officials, and moving power and control to the Executive Branch, while weakening our traditional institutions. I believe that the hoopla about the supposed “torture” is simply a smoke screen.
Obama already has his own military which was created within AmeriCorps, under the GIVE Act. This Act authorizes AmeriCorps, at the President’s command, to deploy the “National Service Reserve Corps” anywhere in the US; even though that would be a direct violation of States rights. Now, with the excuse of preventing further abuse, he has created his own “new, special terrorism-era interrogation unit"1.
“The High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, or HIG will be headquartered at the FBI and overseen by the National Security Council, which puts the White House firmly in charge. Interrogation had previously been the province of the CIA and the military.”2
Given that some members of Congress have called Tea Party Protesters “Terrorists”, and I am a Tea Party Protester, I find this worrisome.
1.“Obama spokesman announces interrogation unit “By Delvin Barrett, Associated Press, Monday, August 24, 2009
http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2009-08-24/news/obama-spokesman-announces-interrogation-unit
2. “New Unit to Question Key Terror Suspects”, By Anne E. Kornblut, Washington Post Staff Writer , Monday, August 24, 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com
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